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Feb 10, 2025 12 tweets 4 min read
Allied War Crimes.
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After Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. The Allies immediately sought to extract punitive damages upon the devastated German people. Rampant rape, looting, and summary executions were commonplace.

Most accounts of these atrocities have been... Image
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ignored or never published.

During the Nuremberg Trials (Nov. 20, 1945-Oct. 1, 1946). The Allies sought to hold the German leadership that was still alive personally responsible for all the guilt they could shoehorn in. (Read @irving_books "Nuremberg: The Last Battle").
Nov 19, 2024 13 tweets 6 min read
🇩🇪 The Aviator of Tsingtao: Gunther Plüschow. 🇩🇪

The most interesting man you've never heard of. A short thread:

Gunther Plüschow was born Feb. 8, 1886 in Munich, Germany. In 1904 at the age of 18 he joined the Imperial Navy aboard the SMS Fürst Bismarck before... Image
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being put in command of torpedo boat SMS S-87 and finally qualifying to become a naval pilot in January 1914. That same year while flying a Rumpler Taube he and his copilot broke the world altitude record of 18,000 feet (in an open cockpit with no oxygen). He was then sent to... Image
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