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German soldier and Soviet Army auxiliary woman sharing a kiss at the joint Wehrmacht-Soviet Military victory parade in Brest, Poland, September 22nd 1939 On September 22, 1939, during the World War II, Soviet and German units held a joint military parade in Brest on the territory of defeated and occupied Poland. The issue of the joint division of Poland was actually resolved in August 1939, when Germany and the USSR signed  the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact   information reference The non-aggression pact between Germany and the USSR, signed by the heads of foreign affairs on August 23, 1939. A secret protocol on the delimitation of spheres of interest in Eastern Europe and the Baltic was added to it. . The German army invaded Polish territory on September 1, 1939, and the Soviet army invaded on September 17. In Soviet historiography, the reason for the invasion was called "the reunification of the fraternal peoples of Ukraine and Belarus" — Poland at that time included modern Ukrai...

The Photos of a real female battle medics during WW2 Soviet women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union). While most toiled in industry, transport, agriculture and other civilian roles, working double shifts to free up enlisted men to fight and increase military production, a sizable number of women served in the army. The majority were in medical units. There were 800,000 women who served in the Soviet Armed Forces during the war, which is roughly 3 percent of total military personnel. For example Natalia Kauchevskaja - during a fight she were surrounded by German soldiers and used grenades to stop them, she died in that fight.And how do you think 800.000 women according to wikipedia fight or not?I can swear, most of them saw battlefield as close as soldiers do. The Soviet Union mobilized women at an early stage of the war, integrating them into the main army units, and not using the "auxiliary"...

These are the four men executed for war crimes during the Civil War The warden of Andersonville,  Henry Wirz   was hanged for war crimes... in a time before war crimes. He was one of only two Confederate Officers to be hanged for war crimes committed during the war. The other was Bushwhacker  Champ Ferguson , charged with killing prisoners and non-combatants. He was said to have decapitated prisoners and rolled their heads down hills in a races in which his men would bet. He was seldom disciplined, and was even arrested for the murder of a superior [Confederate] officer for which he was acquitted due to lack of evidence. Marcellus Jerome Clarke , and  Henry C. Magruder  They were executed for Terrorism and Guerilla Fighting. Amongst crimes committed where, mass rape of a Union Officer's wife and six school-girls, and the burning a black man alive. They where executed after their arrests for robbing a bank. Robert Cobb Kennedy ,  Sam Davis , and  John Y...