In November 1942, the ocean swallowed the SS Benlomond in less than 120 seconds Amid the waves, a Chinese man named Poon Lim, second steward on board, managed to free himself from the wreckage and floated for hours until he found a wooden raft. It wasn't salvation, but limbo: biscuits, chocolate, sugar, a jug of water, a few flares, two funnels, and a flashlight. No company, no route, just the void of the Atlantic. The attack was the work of the German submarine U-172. Of the 54 crew members, only six managed to leave the ship. Lim was the only survivor. For 133 days, the sea was his only home. He caught birds, drank their blood, fished with improvised lines, faced a shark, hauled it aboard, killed it with a jug, and ate it. Every day was a pact with hunger, every night a duel with loneliness. When the Brazilian coast finally appeared on the horizon, Poon was a man, nine kilos lighter, but still able to walk. Local fishermen found him and helped him, but they didn't save him:...
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was a guard at a Nazi camp called Stutthof. She was referred to as the "Beautiful Spectre
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was a guard at a Nazi camp called Stutthof. She was referred to as the "Beautiful Spectre. She was pretty but very mean. She selected the women and children to be killed. At the end of World War II she and the other guards were arrested. They were put on trial in 1946 by a court in Poland. The guards did not feel bad for what they did. Wanda Klaff, one of the guards, said she was only doing her job when she beat prisoners every day. During the winter, another guard, Ewa Paradies, drenching prisoners with chilling water. Eleven of the guilty were sentenced to hanging, including five female guards. On July 4, 1946, a huge crowd of 200,000 people came to watch. The most surprising thing was that the ropes were tied around the guards' necks by whom? The executioners were the real prisoners who survived the camp. They even wore their old striped camp clothes to do it. The noise and excitement of the crowd was so great that the government had to alter the rules....
