Contents shipped to Germany in 26,000 railroad cars—furniture dispatched first to Eastern Territories, then redirected to German bombing victims. Paris alone: 38,000 homes requisitioned by 20 officials with 150 trucks daily. #WWIIhistory#Monumentsmen
#OTD in #Nuremberg December 18, 1945: Prosecutors reveal the Rosenberg Task Force systematically looted Europe's cultural heritage. Evidence shows 21,903 catalogued art works seized across France, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, and occupied territories.
Rosenberg writes the stolen collection will "send a ray of beauty and joy into your care-laden and revered life." The "M-Action" report details confiscation of 71,000 Jewish homes in Western Europe.
Join us for a virtual conversation with Cindy Schweich Handler and Harry Handler, co-creators of A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany.
Oppenheimer helped take top Nazi leaders into custody and played a key role in the denazification of Germany. Cindy Schweich Handler is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and other national outlets.
@mtapresents A Christmas Carol at the #RHJC
Once again, Mike Thornton and the gang bring you a holiday classic with an immersive, nostalgic experience that leaves kids wide-eyed and adults with full hearts.
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Greece & Yugoslavia (Colonel H. J. Phillimore): Despite assurances to Yugoslavia on March 25, 1941, a coup two days later prompted immediate invasion plans. Both countries attacked at dawn April 6, 1941 without warning.
#OTD in #Nuremberg: Trial Day 15 - December 7, 1945
Norway & Denmark (Major Elwyn Jones, speaking and seen here): Documents showing Raeder-Rosenberg-Quisling collaboration from December 1939. Hitler's March 1, 1940 directive ordered forces to "appear as a peaceful occupation."
Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg (Mr. G. D. Roberts): Hitler gave public guarantees October 1937, ordered invasion preparations within months. All three invaded dawn May 10, 1940 without warning.
Lieutenant Colonel Griffith-Jones began presenting the Poland aggression case, starting with the 1934 German-Polish Non-Aggression Declaration and 1925 Arbitration Treaty. #NurembergTrials#TreatyViolations https://t.co/iUd8Z81P4A
#OTD in Nuremberg: December 5, 1945 - Trial Day 13 American prosecutor Sidney Alderman completed presentation on Czechoslovakia destruction, including documents showing Hitler ordered Slovakia to deliver weapons to Germany and that Germany would take all war material of former...
Maxwell-Fyfe noted Hitler's 1935 statement promising to scrupulously maintain every treaty voluntarily signed, then showed how Versailles military clauses limiting Germany to 100,000 troops, forbidding Rhineland fortifications, and banning air force and submarines were violated.
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