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The tale of two histories: #cultureofwar
1. 110,000 Latvian volunteer fought bravely as nationalists against Soviet oppression.
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2. About 42,000 Latvians of our legion served in the SS-Police units and joined Einsatzgruppen killing actions against Jews, socialists and Poles.
1. 110,000 Latvian volunteer fought bravely as nationalists against Soviet oppression.
Or
2. About 42,000 Latvians of our legion served in the SS-Police units and joined Einsatzgruppen killing actions against Jews, socialists and Poles.
In 1944 another 123,000 men were conscripted but only 16,000 front fighters. The rest were committed to combating Soviet, Polish and Latvian partisans.
Latvian volunteers were assigned to HSSPF - North SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln. He devised the ‘sardine packing’ method of mass killing. Jewish victims were forced to stand on the previous killed. The most vile method during the Holocaust by bullets.
Wiki picture
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OTD - 1941 - Operation Barbarossa - Nazi Germany’s invasion of Soviet Russia. A thread about different German photo collections and sources.
Warning: some people might find some of the content in this thread distressing.
#CultureofWar
Warning: some people might find some of the content in this thread distressing.
#CultureofWar
Hitler’s war of extermination unleashed a militarized genocide and the Holocaust. From the outset, German soldiers inflicted the ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ on several million people. The legacy has deeply scarred Europe.
Photography played a very important part in the campaign. The official newsreels, newspapers and journals all carried photographs. They were essential in the visualisation of ideological enemies - to be exterminated under Hitler’s directives.
Images: @USNatArchives @BundesarchivD
Images: @USNatArchives @BundesarchivD
#CultureofWar - Memories of history and public debate - Tom Bower from 1981/3. Bower was able to argue his case in a BBC discussion (1995). An uncomfortable memory at a time of British national nostalgia: (1.00 hour in this link):
#CultureofWar - should Britain have saved SS men from deportation to the Soviet Union? The documentary examined the question of collaboration that had stirred public debate since Tolstoy’s publication: ‘Victims of Yalta’ (1977).
#CultureofWar - the case of Ivan the Terrible. During the years after Bower’s publication in 1981, the case of Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk turned and twisted. The balance of historical evidence indicates prosecutions should have continued.
#CultureofWar and Nazi Germany. A thread about how the culture of war/violence became embedded in regimes long before the Nazis? What was Hitler’s military culture constructed on? (pictures mine unless captioned).
Impressions of the Garrison state and the Nation in arms appeared long before the Great War. The Kaiser Manoeuvres, a ritual, were central to the projection of military power, and became a major event in the public calendar. Pictures from 1912.
The manoeuvres traversed vast areas of terrain - the public were encouraged to watch, or engage with the troops. As an international event, foreign officials and British officers were sent to report on the ‘show’.
