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Anton Dostler  ( Munich , May 10, 1891 –  Aversa , December 1, 1945) was a  general of the infantry  in the regular German Army during  World War II . In the first  Allied   war trial  after the war, Dostler was found guilty of  war crimes   and executed by a  firing squad . General Dostler ordered and oversaw the unlawful execution of fifteen captured US Soldiers. The soldiers were sent behind the German lines with orders to demolish a tunnel that was being used by the German army as a supply route to the front lines. They were captured and upon learning of their mission, Dostler ordered their execution without trial. The US soldiers were wearing proper military uniforms and carried no civilian or enemy clothing and were in compliance with Hague Convention to be considered non-combatants after their surrender. Under the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare, it was legal to execute “spies and saboteurs” disguised in ci...

.. Vegetarian Hitler and the German Generals at Breakfast .. Towards the end of his life  Adolf Hitler  followed a  vegetarian  diet. It is not clear when he adopted it, since some accounts of his dietary habits prior to the  Second World War  indicate that he consumed meat as late as 1937. By 1938, Hitler's public image as a vegetarian was already being fostered and from 1942 he self-identified as a vegetarian. .. Adolf Hitler's Vegetarianism: Last Surviving Food Tester, Margot Woelk, Confirms Meat-Free Lifestyle After decades of silence, 95-year-old Margot Woelk, thought to be the  last surviving member of the team tasked with testing Adolf Hitler's food for poisons , has come forward with new details about the infamous figure. In an interview with the U.K. publication The Times, Woelk described  tasting the Fuhrer's meals  between 11 a.m. and noon before the dishes were driven to Nazi headquarters, known as the Wolf's Lair...

William Tyndale believed that people in England should be able to read religious books - especially The Bible - in their own language. Sixteenth-century leaders of the Church vehemently disagreed.  So did the King of England - Henry VIII - and so did English law : In England, however, under the 1408 Constitutions of Oxford , it was strictly forbidden to translate the Bible into the native tongue. This ban was vigorously enforced by Cardinal Wolsey and the Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More , in an attempt to prevent the rise of English 'Lutheranism'. The only authorised version of the Bible was St Jerome's Latin translation, known as the ' Vulgate ', made in the fourth century and understood only by highly-educated people. A scholar fluent in eight languages , Tyndale came to believe that the teachings of church leaders were not always consistent with the Bible.  Furthermore, he wondered what good it was for people to hear Biblical readings and ...

25 Massacre of Thessalonica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google Share on Pinterest One of the earliest recorded large-scale massacres in world history happened in the year 390 when Roman Emperor Theodosius I sent troops to Thessalonica in order to quell some civil unrest. Apparently he was very angry when he gave them their initial instructions because he almost immediately dispatched a messenger telling the troops to disregard his previous orders. The messenger, however, arrived too late and 7,000 innocent men, women, and children had already been murdered. 24 Granada Massacre Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google Share on Pinterest On December 30, 1066 Muslim mobs stormed the royal palace where Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela had sought refuge and crucified him. In the ensuing massacre of the Jewish population, many of the Jews of Granada were murdered. The massacre was apparently ...

Circassia  was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the  Black Sea . For no reason other than ethnic hatred, over the course of hundreds of raids the  Russians  drove the Circassians from their homeland and deported them to the  Ottoman Empire . At least 600,000 people lost their lives to massacre, starvation, and the elements while hundreds of thousands more were forced to leave their homeland. By 1864, three-fourths of the population was annihilated, and the Circassians had become one of the first stateless peoples in modern history. Between the late 18th and early-to-mid-19th centuries, the Adyghe people lost their independence as they were slowly conquered by  Russia  in a series of wars and campaigns. During this period, the Adyghe plight achieved a certain celebrity status in the West; but pledges of assistance were never fulfilled. After the  Crimean War , Russia turned her attention to the Caucasus in earnest, starti...

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