Major Crimes and True Crime

August Landmesser, became a member of the Nazi Party in 1931 with the hope of improving his employment prospects during a time of economic hardship. Nonetheless, in 1934, Landmesser's life took an unexpected turn when he fell in love with a Jewish woman named Irma Eckler. The couple got engaged a year later, but were unable to marry because marriage between Jews and non-Jews was forbidden. Despite this obstacle, he married Eckler, and they had their first daughter in 1935. Two years later, Landmesser, his wife and daughter attempted to flee Germany for Denmark but were apprehended by authorities. Landmesser was charged with “dishonoring the race” under Nazi racial law but was later let go and was just ordered to end his relationship with Eckler with the warning that a repeat offense would result in a multi-year prison sentence. However, he refused to abandon his wife and was eventually arrested again in 1938. This time he was sentenced to hard labor for 3 years at a concentration c...

Many people today have this two stories confused, but as a person who has studied this history for years I want to make clear that they were actually two separate acts of bravery. First there was Franceska Mann in 1943. She was a beautiful dancer, originally from Poland. When she was herded to the room near the gas chambers, one of the cruel guards named Schillinger instructed her to remove her clothes. She didn't just give up. She influenced him with her dancing movements and hit him with her shoe and grabbed his own pistol to shoot him. He died from those wounds. It resulted in a riot . . . those poor women decided to fight even when they knew that the end was near. Then, almost a year later to the day in 1944, there was the Gunpowder Plot. This was a group effort done by such women as Roza Robota and her friends who worked in the munitions factory. These brave girls smuggled tiny bits of gunpowder ever single day inside their clothes. They gave it to the men that worked in the c...

The Nazi gas chambers have a deep tragic history that should be noticed. People who died there did not die instantly and painlessly, it was a long, horrible, painful experience of all the participants. Nazi had two methods that were quite brutal. They deployed Zyklon B in Auschwitz, which was a gas consisting of cyanide that caused respiratory poisoning to the body by preventing oxygen intake into the cells. The victims felt dizzy, nauseated, and trembling, they could not breath easily. The torture took about five to twenty minutes. They sprayed carbon-monoxide-laden engine exhaust at Treblinka. This gas progressively denuded the bloodstream of oxygen and it brought on an agonizing and slow suffocation which took approximately thirty minutes or more and the victims remained awake during the whole duration. The wickedness started as early as before the gas was emitted. The false claims made victims to be absorbed and rounded up into rooms. When the poison leaked in there was panic at on...

Flasher is SPARED jail despite shocking video that shows him chasing an 18-year-old female student while naked A 37-year-old naked man who was captured on video chasing a teenage girl on a Mexico City street will not be doing any jail time.  Instead, a judge summoned the accused man to make a weekly court appearance, barred him from making contact with the victim and the witnesses, and banned him from setting foot in the sector of Sal Alvaro. The court judge also forbid him being anywhere near the municipality of Azcapotzalco while the case is investigated during a two-month period, according to a press release issued by the Mexico City Attorney General's office. The man, who was been identified by various Mexican outlets as Jonathan “N”, is shown by surveillance video footage standing near his idle car as the 18-year-old college woman is walking in his direction in the early hours of September 10. After noticing the nude man standing ahead of her on the dark sidewalk, the frighten...

On this day, November 22, 2017 SHOCKING VIDEO: Man arrested after nanny cam caught him dangling 8-month-old upside down SHOCKING VIDEO: Man arrested after nanny cam caught him dangling 8-month-old upside down VISALIA, California — A shocking discovery Monday for a Visalia mom. She checked her nanny camera to find her roommate dangling her 8-month-old son upside down by his feet.  “I was so upset, I was angry and hurt,” says Viviana Owen, Mother. Owen says the man she caught dangling her son—Anthony Sembrano—is a close friend of her husband who they let stay in their home when his family fell on hard times. She says Sembrano’s wife watched her son when she goes to school. “What keeps going through my mind:  so what else happened? I only had it for five days so what was he doing when there wasn’t a camera?” Owen said.  The baby was taken to urgent care after the incident where doctors called law enforcement. Visalia police say Sembrano was arrested and booked into jail for ...

In 1944, at Auschwitz, Ilse was just twenty years old when she was separated from her younger sister the moment the doors of the cattle car opened. In the chaos, she didn’t scream goodbye — instead, she gave a clear instruction: “Remember the numbers.” Her sister thought Ilse was talking about the number tattooed on her arm, just one more prisoner number among so many. But Ilse had hidden something special in those digits — coordinates, secretly placed inside the number. It was a kind of map, marked on her skin, meant to live on even if she didn’t. After the war ended, her sister followed the numbers and found her way to an old house near Kraków. Under a loose floorboard, she discovered a small tin box. Inside were their mother’s earrings, some letters, and one photo — the two sisters smiling under a cherry tree, holding each other close. “My sister gave me everything,” she said. “Even when she had nothing.” Continue reading

Faye Schulman, a brave resistance fighter during World War II, was born on November 28, 1919, in a small town called Lenin, Poland. She grew up in a big family and learned how to take photos from her brother Moishe. She often helped him with his photography business. On August 14, 1942, the Nazis killed 1,850 Jewish people in the Lenin ghetto. Among them were Faye’s parents, sisters, and younger brother. Only 26 people were left alive that day, and Faye was one of them—saved because she knew how to take and develop photos. The Nazis forced her to develop their photos of the massacre, but she secretly made copies for herself. During a raid by resistance fighters, Faye escaped into the forest and joined a group called the Molotava Brigade. This group was made up mostly of former Soviet soldiers who had escaped. Faye was allowed to join because her brother-in-law had been a doctor, and they badly needed anyone with even a little knowledge of medicine. Though she had no training, Faye work...

Dreadful, horrible question to ask, yet cold, cold, cruel logic provides the answer. Nazis were gathering hair of the victims not as a piece of an individual person but as something useful, as a commodity. In simple terms, they did not even want to squander anything, including the physical remains of people they were killing. Germany was engaged in a great war, the great war and the government was willing to exhaust all the possible resources. To the Nazis, the hair removed off the heads of the victims was nothing more than raw material such as wool or perhaps animal fur. They used the death camps like their factories and the hair was a commodity. They would wash the hair, disinfect the hair and stuff it into enormous bundles very tight. These were large and hefty packages they referred to as bales. These bales would be taken out of the camps and exported to German firms. What was the hair used for? It was primarily used to manufacture industrial felt. This is a heavyweight, very tough...

He was only four years old when he was taken from his home and thrown into the nightmare of Buchenwald. His name was Joseph Schlipstein, and among thousands of faces filled with fear, his was one of the youngest. In that place, there was no mercy for children. But his father refused to give up. In a desperate move, he hid Joseph inside a suitcase, keeping him out of sight from the SS guards. For a while, that small case of canvas and leather became his shelter — a thin shield against a world trying to erase him. The hiding place, however, could not stay secret forever. One day, the guards found him. And something unexpected happened: instead of punishing him, some of them — maybe out of a sudden sense of pity, maybe just on impulse — began calling him the “mascot” of the camp. It was a strange and almost unbelievable act in a place created to destroy every sign of kindness. And so, Joseph stayed alive. In 1948, when he was seven, he sat in front of an American journalist. He was still ...

Barbara Aal was born on October 20, 1938, in Amsterdam, the only child of Fritz and Julia Aal-Broches. She grew up at Nicolaas Maesstraat 136, surrounded by her loving parents and the simple joys of neighborhood friends. Photographs from those early years show her playing happily with children next door, a little girl who should have known only games, stories, and safety. Barbara’s world was small and bright, shaped by the ordinary rhythm of childhood. But behind those moments, the shadow of occupation was growing closer. She was Jewish, and by the time she turned five, the Netherlands had become a place where even the youngest were not safe from hate. In 1943, Barbara and her parents were arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Westerbork transit camp, a place where families lived in uncertainty, waiting for the trains that would decide their fate. For a while, they stayed together, her parents trying to comfort her in a world stripped of certainty and kindness. Westerbork was not yet A...

There have been many examples of crazy last words from death row inmates (how about that clever John Wayne Gacy and his immortal “Kiss my ass” right before his execution). I decided though to focus on the last words of the Lincoln assassins and conspirators. John Wilkes Booth  was a native of Maryland and somewhat of an aristocrat. He was born into a family of actors and he himself was one of the more famous actors of his day. Despite his Confederate sympathies, Booth continued to live and work in the North throughout the Civil War. As the war was coming to a close and it was clear the Confederacy was doomed Booth and a few associates hatched a desperate plot. Just maybe, they decided, the South still had a chance if they could kidnap President Lincoln and take him to Richmond where he would be ransomed in exchange for independence. Unfortunately for them, Lincoln failed to appear where the gang expected him. Days later the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee surrendered, effectively...

CAUGHT ON VIDEO: 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL BRUTALLY ATTACKED BY ADULT WOMAN INSIDE MCDONALD'S IN CALIFORNIA LOMITA, Calif. -- Family members and community leaders are calling for justice after a 13-year-old was attacked and beaten inside a Southern California McDonald's, an incident that was captured in a now-viral video. Kassidy Jones told her mom that she was walking out of the restroom inside the Lomita restaurant last week when the woman seen in the video locked eyes with her. She said the woman seemed upset and said that she fights kids. That's when the teenager says she was attacked for no reason. In the video, the adult woman is seen pulling Kassidy's hair, forcing her to the ground and hitting her multiple times. "My daughter is hurting emotionally. She can't sleep at night. She's bruised... She doesn't want to go to school because she's tired of the kids and everybody asking her what happened and making fun of her," said Angelina Gray, her moth...

Shocking moment young woman punches a man in the face sending him reeling to the floor in bizarre street brawl outside a pub A young woman floored a guy with a huge right hook in a bizarre street fight outside a pub in broad daylight. The two men were seen on a video having a fight in the road. One wearing navy and white shorts and a tracksuit top pushed the other in a black jumper and grey trousers. The second man then threw his rucksack at him which then fell on the floor spilling milk amid what appears to he the sound of glass smashing. A man in a blue chequered shirt was seen watching on before the blonde-haired woman appears and picks up the bag. The pair of young men grabbled on the floor as she dragged the one in grey trousers off and he stumbled away. But when the other man punched the woman she barely flinched. She then landed a powerful blow on him sending him sprawling two metres backwards onto the ground. Two other young women watched on as the man got up and tried to throw...

Teenage girl allegedly lured to fake party and 'tortured by three other girls' posts harrowing TikTok video - as her terrified family is forced into hiding The 13-year-old girl who was allegedly tortured for five hours by three girls after being invited to a fake party has posted an emotional TikTok video. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, filmed herself lying in bed as she zooms in on her swollen face and badly bloodshot right eye. She mouths the words 'change your name or change your mind and leave this f***ed up place behind' as the Roar song Christmas Kids plays over the video. Three girls aged 12, 13 and 14 have been charged with luring the alleged victim her to a fake party and torturing her - with horrific footage of the alleged incident posted online. Footage allegedly shows the girl being tied up, burnt and stomped on, with knives thrown at her and bottles broken over her face at a home in Tewantin, west of Noosa in the Sunshine Coast's n...