Taylor Swift was scrolling through her phone backstage in Seattle when she saw a message that would haunt her for the rest of her life. Not because it was threatening or cruel, but because it was from a hospital social worker named Jennifer Chen who was sitting beside a 17-year-old boy who was dying from…
1939, a few months before the start of the Second World War, Nazi Germany. After approximately 304,000 Jews emigrated, only about 214,000 of them remain in the country. Six years of Nazi-sponsored legislation have marginalized and disenfranchised Germany’s Jewish citizenry and have expelled Jews from the professions and from commercial life. After the outbreak of…
The 1st of October 1946, Nuremberg, Germany. After more than 10 months on a trial, 21 defendants who are among the most important political, military, and economic leaders of Nazi Germany, hear their sentences read. These high-ranking representatives of the criminal Nazi regime have to finally take responsibility for their crimes and answer before an…
The 3rd of June, 1944, three days before the Allied infantry and armored divisions begin landing on the Normandy coast in France. Despite the increasingly common food shortages and bombings of major cities, Adolf Hitler together with his companion Eva Braun attend the wedding which would last three days and become the last big social …
On September 1st, 1939, Poland was executed within a Blitzkrieg hurricane and carved up by devastating geopolitical ambitions. The crushing of defense lines on the battlefield was merely the beginning. As shortly thereafter, the Nazi and Soviet pincers closed, erasing the national status of a thousand-year-old nation with just a few cold penstrokes on the…
The afternoon of June 1st, 1946. The courtyard of Gilava Prison was suffocated by a thick atmosphere as cold as the blade of a military procedure. Amidst that hauntingly silent space, a solitary figure walked proudly into position. Rather than dawning a gunpowder scented military uniform adorned with the glittering medals of a golden age,…
At 4:47 on the morning of May 11th, 1945, Private John McKini lay in his tent near Dingolan Bay, Luzon, unaware that approximately 100 Japanese soldiers were creeping through the jungle toward his position. 24 years old, 2 and 1/2 years in the army, a sharecropper son from Georgia with a third grade education. By…
June 4th, 1942 0706. Lieutenant Dick Best climbed into his SBD Dauntless on the flight deck of USS Enterprise and watched the torpedo bombers launch ahead of him. One squadron after another, heading for four Japanese carriers northwest of Midway Atoll. 32 with a decade of carrier landings behind him. The best dive bomber pilot…
0 0647 August 1st 1943 Lieutenant Colonel Addison Baker climbed into B24 Liberator Hell’s Wench near Benghazi, Libya as 178 bombers prepared for the lowest bombing raid in history. 36 years old, 14 years in the cockpit, commander of the 93rd bomb group. The target, Pesti, Romania. Nine oil refineries producing 1/3 of all fuel…
Muhammad Ali was three months past his worst defeat ever when he heard about a man standing on a ninth floor ledge threatening to jump. The police had given up. A psychologist had failed. Even a minister couldn’t talk him down. But the greatest wasn’t about to let another human being die on his watch….
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