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A B-24 flying over a burning oil refinery at Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. 81 years ago today.
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WW2 Era Book Previously Owned by a German Prisoner of War Held in the US, Later Taken Back to Germany. Details in comments.
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80 years ago today, on August 4, 1944, Anne Frank and her family are arrested by a group of German uniformed police led by SS-Oberscharführer Karl Silberbauer of the Sicherheitsdienst. Anne would die in Bergen-Belsen less than a year later at the age of 15.
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700 Jewish prisoners launch an uprising at Treblinka, one of the most notorious concentration camps in 1943. Lasting for 30 minutes, they set several buildings ablaze, exploded a petrol tank, while one group attacked the main gate. Around 200 managed to escape.
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Reich propaganda personnel filming in front of the cockpit of a Heinkel "He-177". Under the cab the emblem of the "KG 50" is clearly visible: A white "worm" on a black shield. First formed late 1942. Emblem seen on several He-177s on the Eastern Front. Possibly only used during 1943.
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