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Posthumously recognized Hero of the Soviet Union Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya being executed. Prior to her hanging, she declared: “Be brave, fight, beat the Germans, burn, trample them! I’m not afraid to die comrades. It is happiness to die for one’s people”. Nazi Germany was doing and planning to do, I'm not denying that. But ironically the nation of which the person in question being executed belonged to was waging various wars of aggression and facilitated the killing of millions prior to this photo even being taken. Particularly Ukrainians. The  Holodomor , also known as the  Great Ukrainian Famine , was a man-made  famine  in  Soviet Ukraine  from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of  Ukrainians . The Holodomor was part of the wider  Soviet famine of 1930–1933  which affected the major  grain-producing  areas of the  Soviet Union . While scholars are in consensus that the  cause of the famine  was man-made, wh...

1937, a Japanese soldier stands proudly following a beheading competition with his comrades during the siege of Nanking, in which over 300,000 Chinese civilians were killed during the Sino-Japanese war Something about that image isn't right. I have a feeling its a faked propaganda shot. Edit: Normally with authentic images of this sort, you find a lot of links on a reverse image search that link to historical and academic websites. The many different websites that turn up with this image are white supremacy, blog posts and conspiracy websites. This isn't exactly inspiring my confidence. I know the Japanese committed insane amounts of atrocities in China (and elsewhere), however first hand images are very rare. They weren't fools. Most of the authentic images you find were taken by survivors after the soldiers moved on. A quick googling shows quite a lot of "horrific" images that are clearly fakes. This one strikes me as fake for a number of reasons. First off his ...

Japanese gov still denies and refuses to apologize for comfort women, unit 731 and Nanking Massacre For a comprehensive list of apologies issued by Japan please see this  List of war apology statements . Over the past 75 years, Japan’s leaders and people have taken many opportunities to offer their sincere condolences and remorse to the victims made to suffer by the Imperial Japanese Army. These attempts, although not meaningless, have failed on a large scale due to the perceptions of the victims, as well as Japan’s own sentiment towards the war. Some of the most infamous victims of the Imperial Japanese Army include the euphemistically termed, ‘Comfort Women.’ Chinese experts estimate that around 200,000 women, mainly from Korea and China, were captured and coerced into providing sexual services before and during the war. Very few survivors of the ‘Comfort Women’ system are left alive today. In fact, the last Chinese ‘Comfort Women’ passed away this November 2015. The struggl...

The German soldier shot the French soldier first and the French soldier's comrades killed the German soldier immediately after. If the French soldier's aim had been a bit better they would have killed each other, but who can blame him on being a bit off after being shot Jules-André Peugeot  ( French:   [pøʒo] ; 11 June 1893 – 2 August 1914) was the first French soldier to die in  World War I . He died one day before the  German Empire  formally  declared war on France , in the  same skirmish  in which  Albert Mayer  became the first soldier and first German soldier to die Jules-André Peugeot was born on 11 June 1893. Before being called up for compulsory military service in 1913, Jules Andre Peugeot was a teacher On mid morning on August 2, 1914, a German cavalry patrol led by Leutnant  Albert Mayer   patrolled into France before war had been officially declared. Upon crossing into French territory, Mayer slashed a French sentr...

British prisoners of war murdered, beaten, starved, worked to destruction, their emaciated bodies a mass of suppurating ulcers, their enlarged eyes bewildered by their suffering: these are the images we have of those unfortunates who fell into the hands of the Japanese during the Second World War. Few realise that this was also the plight of many of the 171,720 Tommies and their officers captured on the Western Front during what we are inclined to think of as the more gentlemanly war of 1914-1918. Few of those who take up arms consider the possibility of being taken prisoner. For most who found themselves in the hands of the enemy, it seemed that the military authorities too had given the matter little thought. Becoming a prisoner was never mentioned during training, and talk of it was taboo. © David Bilton / mediadrumworld.com A British serviceman heads into captivity. What would be his fate in German hands during the First World War? Most of those who became prisoners did not make a ...

Chemical weapon, any of several chemical compounds, usually toxic agents, that are intended to kill, injure, or incapacitate enemy personnel. In modern warfare, chemical weapons were first used in World War I (1914–18), during which gas warfare inflicted more than one million of the casualties suffered by combatants in that conflict and killed an estimated 90,000. In the years since then, chemical arms have been employed numerous times, most notably in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) and the Syrian Civil War. The United States and the Soviet Union, during their decades of confrontation in the Cold War (1945–91), built up enormous stockpiles of chemical weapons. The end of the Cold War enabled those former adversaries to agree to ban all chemical weapons of the types that had been developed during World War I (first generation), World War II (second generation), and the Cold War (third generation). Like nuclear weapons and biological weapons, chemical weapons are often classified as weapons...