August Friedrich Kellner Quotes
We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.
Kellner, Friedrich. My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner -- A German against the Third Reich. Translated and edited by Robert Scott Kellner, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
He served as a liaison with the Russian military officers after WWII. As a result he developed friendships with some who told him much about Stalin.
The Greeks committed many atrocities in their war with Turkey. See {584483}
There is disagreement amongst historians as to whether or not the atrocities attributed to the retreating British troops were actually true. There are two other possibilities. First, this report was made only a week after the battle itself and less than that since the alleged atrocities would take place as the British retreated. There were certainly all kinds of rumors with information passed from person to person with no modern means of documentation. The Provisional Congress may have sincerely thought that all the events occurred but they may have been the result of inadvertent exaggeration. Then there is the possibility that in order to fire up the Americans to join the war, some or all of the atrocity reports were deliberately fabricated. It would only take two or three delegates to agree on such a strategy and they could “confirm” each other’s accounts of the happenings. Of course it might all be true. However, as the British retreated to Boston where they had reinforcements, they did not have a lot of time for malicious atrocities. All along the route, Minutemen, local farmers and townspeople continued the attack against the British. By the time the British soldiers reached Boston, 73 British solders were dead and 174 more were wounded. In war truth does not have the respect that it usually does. See {626632}.
He had been part of a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. There were a small group of Anti Nazi Germans during WW II. Carnaris was one. Most were killed.
The Tanguts were a major Chinese Buddhist culture and people with generations of history, emperors, books and religion. The Mongols had been fighting them for over 20 years. After his death, his army obeyed the order and not only murdered every Tangit they could in the capital city in Western Xia, but razed their buildings, burned their books, destroyed their tombs and artifacts. Tanguts who were in other parts of Western Xia were absorbed and assimilated into the Mongol culture. Even the Tangut language died out in a few generations. The Tanguts had been made to “vanish”.
She had saved over 2000 Jewish Children in the Warsaw Ghetto from Death by the Nazis. As a member of the Polish Resistance, she was caught be the Germans, badly tortured, and sentenced to death which she narrowly escaped.
At this point, there had hardly been any fighting and no outrages or war crimes were yet committed by either side. These would come later—more on the Confederate side as they did not want to take the limited resources they had from their troops to fulfil abstract obligations to prisoners of war or to civilians. A few deliberately chose to use terror tactics. The Union troops also at various points in the war got out of hand and looted personal property of civilians. But at this point, this proclamation was just lies and propaganda.
He was the first American that who was assassinated by the Central Intelligence Agency by means of a drone attack. He was a major recruiter for Al Qaeda and he preached to 3 of the 9-11 terrorists.
Almost all former colonial nations resent the colonialism and tend to overlook some of the benefits. Like European colonialism, the Ottoman Empire brought many benefits and advancements to their subject peoples but the oppression is what is most remembered by future generations. Despite the terrible history of the Ottoman Empire in the Armenian Genocide and some other massacres, the Ottoman Empire had more than a 500 year influence on a great part of the world�Islamic and Christian – much of which was very valuable to the world even today.
The basis of his complaint essentially was that he and his military and supports were no worse than the guys why they were killing and if they did not continue fighting and kikking, they themselves would be killed. While there was some truth to that, Assad was one of the worst dictators of the post WWII era. His indiscriminate shooting, shelling and air strikes on women & children, hospitls and schools, and the use of poison gas was enough to justify the image of him as a "bad guy".
