Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts

Saturday, August 22, 2009

aerial photos of germany at the end of WWII

This is what Germany looked like at the end of World War II. My grandparents' generation fought in the war and had been affected by the war termendously. I guess these suppose to make me feel something like a victor (considering me being Jewish too). It makes feel sad and horrified:

Thursday, August 6, 2009

jews for abwehr

Jersualem Post says:

Chabad Lubavitch presented a request Monday to Yad Vashem to recognize a high-ranking military commander in the Third Reich as a righteous gentile for saving Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Schneerson, the sixth Chabad rebbe.

Admiral Canaris, commander of the Nazi Abwehr, or intelligence, had a central role in securing Schneerson's escape from the Warsaw Ghetto along with members of Schneerson's family and entourage, said Yosef Kaminetzky, a writer who recently completed a book on the escape story.

My peeps have officially lost their Yiddisha minds.