Posted on Aug 5, 2021
The Wola Massacre: On this day 75 years ago Hitler’s depraved SS began one of the largest mass...
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On August 5, 1944, German forces began to systematically murder 40,000 to 60,000 civilians in the Wola district during the Warsaw uprising. An excerpt from the article:
"In the early morning of 5th August 1944, as artillery pounded Warsaw and Luftwaffe planes screamed overhead, the relief force of Germans and their willing helpers hastily put together to quell the Warsaw Uprising set about their gruesome work with enthusiasm.
Warsaw’s western district of Wola was about to see an Armageddon on a scale and level of brutality for which it is difficult to find comparison in the modern era.
By the end of the bloodbath seven days later, 40,000 to 60,000 civilians would be dead, most of them shot, many burned alive and plenty raped and mutilated in sickening, bestial ways in an orgy of killing that was so ferocious and perverted that Wola, Warsaw and Poland as a whole have not yet been able to complete properly the process of grieving and closure to this day."
"In the early morning of 5th August 1944, as artillery pounded Warsaw and Luftwaffe planes screamed overhead, the relief force of Germans and their willing helpers hastily put together to quell the Warsaw Uprising set about their gruesome work with enthusiasm.
Warsaw’s western district of Wola was about to see an Armageddon on a scale and level of brutality for which it is difficult to find comparison in the modern era.
By the end of the bloodbath seven days later, 40,000 to 60,000 civilians would be dead, most of them shot, many burned alive and plenty raped and mutilated in sickening, bestial ways in an orgy of killing that was so ferocious and perverted that Wola, Warsaw and Poland as a whole have not yet been able to complete properly the process of grieving and closure to this day."
The Wola Massacre: On this day 75 years ago Hitler’s depraved SS began one of the largest mass...
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WWII World War Two
War Crimes
World History
Military History
Murder
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SGT (Join to see) it is still remarkable to me the atrocities that happened during WWII. I often think about what people had to endure and yet they still found a way to fight. Thank you for sharing this piece of history!
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My father often gave me books to read after he was done. Often they were exquisite historic novels by James Michener. One time, I was 13, he gave me a book that addressed the Holocaust, Polish Jewish resistance fighters, and the cruelty meted out by the Germans. I was too young and had a hard time reconciling the absolute evil of Hitler and Germany with what is right. It threw me into a philosophical tail spin. It would take me a couple years to pull out of it.
If any of you enjoy historical novels read a James Michener book. It is fiction, but he did a lot of research in regards to history of the countries and places he wrote about. He was genius and won many awards, notably the Pulitzer Prize. You won’t regret it.
He starts his novels sans people, but incorporates them into the novels and describes the cultural shifts. I have read most of his novels. They were exceptional as they took me back into time.
If any of you enjoy historical novels read a James Michener book. It is fiction, but he did a lot of research in regards to history of the countries and places he wrote about. He was genius and won many awards, notably the Pulitzer Prize. You won’t regret it.
He starts his novels sans people, but incorporates them into the novels and describes the cultural shifts. I have read most of his novels. They were exceptional as they took me back into time.
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MAJ Ken Landgren I have read a few of his books including Tales of the South Pacific, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Centennial, and Kent State. His writing is fluid and easy to get into.
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