SLAVERY IS WIDESPREAD ESPECIALLY IN MY LIFETIME
It is commonly thought that the buying and selling of human beings, who are then used as their owner wishes, is a thing of the past.
It is commonly thought that the buying and selling of human beings, who are then used as their owner wishes, is a thing of the past.
Little happened between the British and French declarations of war against Germany on September 3 1939 and Germany’s pre-emptive strike on France on 10 May 1940. The Reich occupied northern France to thwart the aims of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) to open up a new Western Front.
Kiev’s forces shelled a detention center holding Ukrainian POWs early Friday morning to “threaten” their own troops who may want to surrender, the Russian Defense Ministry has claimed.
Ukrainian servicemen continue to surrender. The wounded are first sent to hospitals, the rest, temporarily, to special institutions. About the conditions in which they live and what they say – in the report of RIA Novosti.
When the British troops took the Belgian city of Antwerp, hitherto held by the Germans, they found that they did not have a suitable place to keep the prisoners locked up. After searching unsuccessfully for a cinema or theatre that could serve as a prison, the British realized that the zoo was empty, since, it was said, the hungry population had eaten most of the animals. Thus, the zoo was soon filled with new occupants. The six thousand prisoners who were to be accommodated there were distributed by category; The officers, the Belgian fascists and the citizens who had collaborated with the Germans ended up in the lions’ enclosure. Prisoners of another type were assigned the bear pit, the tiger cage, or the monkey house. As a witness would describe, ‘the prisoners remained sitting on piles of straw, looking through the bars.’
Can you imagine what it must be like to be marched out to face a firing squad, say goodbye to your closest friend who is standing next to you and then have the squad shoulder their rifles and march away having not fired a shot? What are the odds of that happening during a war situation?
In response to our superbly researched story about the absence of German atrocities during World War II, to which were added many admissions by Allied commanders that the German armed forces treated their captives far better than convention required, a Canadian reader suggested that we republish The Silence of the Lambs to the Slaughter.
The people of the military victors of World War II, especially those in Russia, are firmly convinced that ‘Nazis epitomise evil incarnate’. This media promoted belief is now deeply ingrained. It is a tattoo on the consciousness and difficult to remove.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was given his legendary goggles by a British prisoner of war in return for retrieving a stolen hat.
Liverpool and Merseyside has earned an international reputation for quality popular music such as that of The Beatles, Billy Fury, Charlie Landsborough, The Merseybeats ~ and the legendary Liverpool FC football club. The maritime city, 17th in size to UK cities, provided Britain with most of its theatrical and literary talent.
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