Major Crimes and True Crime

Targeting the Most Vulnerable: Klaus Barbie and the Izieu Children's Home How heartbreaking! In 1944 the Nazis decided to exterminate the children of the orphanage La Maison d'Izieu. 44 little children were deported to Auschwitz and murdered immediately upon arrival. Eleven-year-old Liliane Gerenstein was sent to her death a few days after she wrote a letter to God: "God? How good You are, how kind and if one had to count the number of goodnesses and kindnesses You have done, one would never finish. God? It is You who command. It is You who are justice, it is You who reward the good and punish the evil. God? It is thanks to You that I had a beautiful life before, that I was spoiled, that I had lovely things that others do not have. God? After that, I ask You one thing only: Make my parents come back, my poor parents protect them (even more than You protect me) so that I can see them again as soon as possible. Make them come back again. Ah! I had such a good...

Getting hammered: Nazi soldiers having the time of their lives in occupied Norway... as they launched their reign of terror Chilling photos of German soldiers having a roaring time in Nazi-occupied Norway months before they murdered hundreds of local Jews have been discovered. The pictures show members of Hitler’s Wehrmacht enjoying picnics in a sunny meadow and sipping tea and eating biscuits at a tranquil garden party. Other black and white images depict four uniformed troops indulging in drinking games in a bar, with one wielding a wooden mallet as if to strike his comrade with it as a joke More pictures from the album, that has come to light from a British collector, show soldiers posing with bemused Laplanders in northern Norway. While the pictures appear to depict the Germans as an agreeable occupying force and a ‘nice bunch of chaps’, they were taken four months before the Holocaust in Norway.&nbsp From November 1942 the Nazis began rounding up ...

Photographs show infamous Nazis being brought to justice Brought to justice: Photographs show 'Bitch of Belsen' and Auschwitz killer Franz Hossler at trial where they were sentenced to hang Photographs of notorious Nazi war criminals taken during their detainment at the end of the Second World War have surfaced in the belongings of a British Spitfire pilot. One of the people in the black-and-white photos is a smirking Franz Hossler - a commander at Auschwitz concentration camp before being made deputy commandant of Bergen-Belsen. The mass murderers were caught on camera along with dozens of other defendants at Celle Prison in Germany by Flight Lieutenant Keith Parfitt. The evil SS-Obersturmfuhrer murdered thousands of Jews by forcing them into gas chambers or shooting them in cold blood. Another prominent SS guard in the pictures is Irma Grese, the so-called ‘Bitch of Belsen’. She was the head of the women’s camp and murdered and tortured numerous female prisone...

Holocaust survivor reveals how he was beaten and starved at Nazi camps Beaten, starved until his bones were sticking out of his flesh and his teeth rotten, sodomized by Nazi soldiers – Dachau survivor tells how he found hope in Hitler's death camps As a young child in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939, Szmulek Rozental was terrified when he heard the rumbling sound of trucks bringing in twenty soldiers in yellow uniforms sitting with rifles between their knees. They stopped, spread blankets on the ground, and with the help of local policemen, demanded all valuables be surrendered and placed on the blankets. The soldiers set the beards and collars of the Hassidic men on fire engulfing their faces in flames, threw one woman in a chair out of a window and used a lock cutter to cut of a man's nose. All of the Polish Jews would be sent to labor camps. Szmulek spent the next six years struggling to survive inhumane conditions in ten concentration death camps including the ...

Nazis slaughtered my brother and sister with a guillotine: German woman, 93, tells how her siblings defied Hitler and were put to death for treason in 1943 It was a cold winter's day in 1943 when three students threw a pamphlet into the stairwell at Munich's Ludwig Maximillian university, the last of six they had distributed decrying Nazism. The young activists wanted to call attention to the crimes being committed in Russia in their name - the mass shootings of Jews, the burning of villages, the barbarity of the war Hitler proclaimed to be 'without rules' in his bid to crush the Slavic 'subhumans.' And their writings recounted the heavily suppressed story of how the Wehrmacht had been stunningly defeated at Stalingrad a month earlier - a battle which proved the turning point of the war. But, unbeknownst to them, a janitor at the university spotted their surreptitious leaflet drop and reported them to the Gestapo, the Hitler regime's feared ...

One of the regular readers of my blog asked a question, in a comment on  my previous Oradour-sur-Glane post , about how a German soldier managed to put a fire bomb inside the Oradour-sur-Glane church without burning himself up, or allowing the women inside the church to extinguish the fire. The question is Were the strings (wicks) short, and the soldiers were blown up with their victims? or were [the stings or wicks] long enough to give them time to escape the church for safety — and allow people inside to extinguish them? The only person, who could answer this question, would be Madame Rouffanche, the lone survivor of the Church, who is now dead. However, she did testify in the trial of the SS soldiers after the war. The answer, according to the testimony of Madame Rouffanche, is long and complicated, so bear with me, while I explain the story with words and pictures. Madame Rouffanche was over 50 years old, and overweight The photo below shows the ...