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Was signed. France was divided into two sections; an occupied zone under direct German rule and an unoccupied "free" zone in Vichy. It was estimated that of the 350,000 French Jews, less than half were native born. Approximately 90,000 were murdered.
1940 juni 22. Parade deutscher Truppen in Paris. Verhandlungen und Waffenstillstand im Wald von Compiégne. [link... |
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... consular offices and tourist agencies in the United States. Italians closed down on 19th June.
1941: British unemployment figures for May lowest yet at 243,656 out of work, 400,000 less than a year ago.
1941: The British attempt to continue their offensive, but suffer heavy tank losses to German 88mm Flak guns.
1942: After intense air attacks an... |
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| ... them Jewish) were killed by Stalin. Yakir, holder of two Orders of the Red Banner and one of the founders of the Red Army, had just been appointed commander of the Leningrad military region less then three weeks earlier. This marked the beginning of the Great Purge in which 30,000 officers and political commissars were murdered, an act that would almost cost Stalin WWII. It is est... |
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... suburb of Cairo. At a moment when work shifts were changing, Israeli pilots bombed and strafed the plant, killing over 80 people and wounding nearly one hundred. The air raid, absolutely senseless from the military viewpoint, was part of Israel's psychological warfare.
In two and a half years after the "six day war", besides the mass air raids, there were a... |
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... Wonder - Isn't She Lovely .
Isn't she lovely
Isn't she wonderful
Isn't she precious
Less than one minute old
I never thought through love we'd be
Making one as lovely as she
But isn't she lovely made from love
Isn't she pretty
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1943 May 22, FIRST OF THE JEWISH PARACHUTISTS (Yugoslavia)
Peretz Rosenberg jumped behind German lines into Yugoslavia. Sent by the British, he served with Marshall Tito as a wireless operator. In all, 250 men and women, some who had recently immigrated to Eretz Israel from the target countries they planned to infiltrate, volunteered. 110 were trained by the British bu... |
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Sonia Rentsch művész a csendéletek mestere által létrehozott "Harm less" című fotósorozat.
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... III ISSUED THE MAY LAWS (Russia)
Based on the "findings" of Count Ignatyev's commissions, the May or "Temporary" Laws were issued. Jews were banished from all rural areas and towns of less than ten thousand people, even within the Pale. Strict quotas were placed on the number of Jews allowed into higher education. As formulated by Konstantin Pobedonostev, the Russian statesm... |
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... road
to hell
And to the bower of Ceres' daughter Proserpine,
Through overhanging dark, to see Tiresias,
Eyeless that was, a shade, that is in hell
So full of knowing that the beefy men know less than he,
Ere thou come to thy road's end.
Knowledge the shade of a shade,|... |
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... years the government had a change of heart and its Jewish socialist leaders were liquidated. Partly due to its primitiveness and remoteness, it never reached a population of more than 18,000, less than a quarter of the total population of the region.
1940: British PM Neville Chamberlain resigns.
1940: All Dutch Army leave suspended.
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