14.10.1943| Prisoner uprising in the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor Thanks to the plan developed by Lejba Felhendler and Alexander Pechersky, the inmates secretly killed 9 SS-men and 2 guards. Then they breached the camp’s barbed wire fences and ran.

267 years ago, this morning. The Itzenplitz Regiment lost 53% of its strength attacking up a village road you can still walk today.

Recently, the remains of 61 Romanian soldiers were excavated in Orekhov on the Don River. The Romanian 1st Cavalry Division had a frontline cemetery there from September to November 1942. The Soviets later razed the markers & the village expanded over the area.

15.10.1943|Directly after the prisoner uprising in the #Sobibor extermination camp, commander of the SS and police forces in the Lublin District Jakob Sporrenberg, arrived on site to contain the situation. By his order all the Jewish prisoners remaining in the camp were murdered.

Lieutenant John Fothergill was killed on 14 August 1944 when his Churchill VII, Briton, was KOed as 107 'Kings Own' RAC supported 59th Staffordshire. A fluke round punched through the 75mm's gunsight, & decapitated him. #WW2 #SWW #History

A mother and her children before their execution in Lubny, Ukraine. #OTD 16 October 1941 German commanders ordered Jews to gather in Lubny, Ukraine for relocation. 4,500 Jews from the area were murdered that day Learn more about the beginning of the Final Solution:

16 October 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Klára Boda, was born. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

Between September 1939 and January 1940, German Einsatzkommandos and Selbstschutz filled 32 mass graves in the Szpęgawski Woods, with up to 7,000 bodies of Polish clergy, teachers, civil servants, Jews and patients of mental institutions. #OTD in 🗓 1939, they shot 47 priests.

Today I received these photographs from Germany. The captions state ‘General’s visit to Barowitsche’ & ‘Pflugbeil’. This is Generalleutnant Johann Pflugbeil, commander of the Wehrmacht 221st Security Division, the focus of my thesis.

Very glad, if knackered, to say that Vol 1 of Jocks, Dragons and Sospans, the new history of 53rd Welsh Division has been submitted to the publisher. Now to finish Vol 2. #WW2 #SWW #History

Tragedy.

The painting "Warsaw Pact" by Vladimir Pereyaslavets in 1966.

With great sadness, we received information about the passing of an Auschwitz survivor, Dita Kraus (Krausová). Dita (née Polachová) did not learn about her Jewish roots until she was 9. Her family didn't follow Jewish traditions, but they were all deported by the Germans to the

📖 "The Expansion of KL Auschwitz 1942-1945 in the Light of the Source Materials" This publication, based on more than 110 previously unpublished or little-known documents, depicts the pace at which the German Nazi Auschwitz complex was enlarged. In 1942, the main camp was

19 October 1941 | A transport of 1,955 Soviet POWs arrived at #Auschwitz from Stalag 308 at Neuhammer. Learn about the fate of Soviet soldiers in KL Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_20_jency/ 🎧 Podcast: youtu.be/d3Y3dmCI5_E

#Normandy #WW2 #DDay - Talking with Niels Henkemans about his new book series open.substack.com/pub/philipwblo…

#WW2Help Anyone would have the Appendixes of the War Diaries of the Winnipeg Rifles ? Looking for the father of a client visiting Normandy.

20 October 1939 was a busy Friday for Einsatzkommando 11, as they had to carry out two shootings in two different Polish towns. Dr. Gawron from Kórnik was away to see a patient when they came for him around 8 a.m., so he missed his own execution. He was arrested after 9, when

Just missed my bus by a few seconds, so it’d be rude not to have a quick half of Farmer’s Blonde in this wonderful Victorian York pub, with strong military links, whilst I wait for the next…

Calling all WW2 N. Africa experts. Is Enfidaville War Cemetery the closest CWGC cemetery to Hammamet in Tunisia and is it easy/safe to get to? I want to take my son next week.