Themed Set: The Death Rattle of the Third Reich
April 21st, 2012 Headsman
On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide, leaving his associates to face the music for World War II.
The days preceding Hitler’s demise had seen a fascist state that once stretched from the Atlantic to Moscow (almost to Moscow) hemmed into vanishing pockets, spiraling towards certain capitulation.
Resistance really was futile.
Nevertheless, resistance was as ferocious as Nazi Germany’s remaining resources could permit, and as cruel in its way as anything in those cruel years. Each dwindling day brought among its privations fresh executions, deaths without meaning or grandeur, vindictive and cynically apportioned deaths mopping up old enemies and settling old scores, most every one without the slightest effect upon the the war’s resolution.
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Apr. 20: The children of Bullenhuser Damm (an ex post facto prepend to this series)
Apr. 21: The women of the Endphaseverbrechen at Neuengamme
Apr. 22: Wilhelm Cauer, but not Helmuth Weidling
Apr. 23: Massacres of Treuenbrietzen
Apr. 24: A day in the death penalty around the Reich
Apr. 25: Ewald Ehlers lynched
Apr. 26: Sigmund Rascher
Apr. 27: Deserting German soldiers
Apr. 28: Hermann Fegelein
Apr. 29: Dachau massacre
On this day..
- 1976: Bayere Moussa, Niger putschist - 2020
- 1831: Gesche Margarethe Gottfried, the Angel of Bremen - 2019
- 1533: The witch of Schiltach - 2018
- 1857: The mutineer Jemadar Issuree Pandy - 2017
- 1895: A quintuple lynching in Greenville, Alabama - 2016
- 1897: William Haas and William Wiley - 2015
- 1975: Sisowath Sirik Matak, Cambodian prince - 2014
- 1913: Bonnot Gang members, anarchist illegalists - 2013
- 1945: The women of the Endphaseverbrechen at Neuengamme - 2012
- 1988: Stanislaw Czabanski, the last in Poland - 2011
- 1597: Severyn Nalyvaiko - 2010
- 1868: Henry James O'Farrell, would-be assassin - 2009
- 1792: Tiradentes, for a Brazilian republic - 2008
Entry Filed under: Daily Doubles,Themed Sets
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Thanks for the link to the propaganda posters. I can never get enough of these.
This one is particularly good.