Monday, April 1, 2024

In 1934, a young male worker at a sugar factory in Mexico was assassinated by gunfire during a strike. The worker's body lay in the street on the ground, rivers of blood flowing from his head and face.

   In 1934, workers at a sugar factory in Mexico went on strike. In response, a shot was suddenly fired and a young male worker was assassinated. The worker lay on the ground, rivers of blood flowing from his head and face. A stretched hand unclenched a loosely clenched fist, the folds of his shirt, the flag in the corner of his frame, the spilled blood, all were the corpse of the murdered male worker. The worker's faceless eyes stared calmly to the heavens.

 Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Manuel Alvarez Bravo) happened upon a labor dispute and photographed the corpse of a worker assassinated during a strike. He implied the transience of human life and death. This photo shows a union leader shot and killed during a labor dispute at a sugar factory in Mexico. A flash remained in the worker's eye as light reflected off the pool of blood at the corner of his eye. Bravo transformed the image from a representation of death to a photograph of politically motivated murder. Without denying the worker's neat face and dignity, he captured the bloody worker lying on the street, assassinated. Neither heroes nor martyrs, the photographs suggested, but only victims. 

 In Mexico in 1934, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PNR), a permanent political institution, chose Lázaro Cárdenas, a revolutionary general from Michoacán, as its presidential candidate. However, soon after Cárdenas took office, conflicts began between Cárdenas and former president (1928-1934) Plutarco Elias Calles. Carrenández was supportive and tolerant of labor unions, especially strikes. Callez organized violent methods and fascists. He was especially close to the Gold Shirts, led by General Nicholas Rodriguez Carrasco, who harassed communists, Jews, and Chinese.

 Cardenas began to isolate Calles politically by removing him from political posts and expelling his most powerful allies. Calles was charged with conspiracy to blow up the railroad, arrested by order of President Cárdenas, and deported to the United States on April 9, 1936, in the custody of Mexican soldiers and police officers.



Saturday, March 30, 2024

For friends and relatives who died in the Hiroshima atomic bombing of World War II, concerned Japanese attended a Shinto service in Hiroshima.

           Undisclosed photos of Japanese       A-bomb survivors

   U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

The National Archives College Park, Maryland

Feburay 22, 2024

TR - 15646

 















TR-15646

U.S. Navy

SUBJECT: 473754 - Sept 1945

CAPTION:

JAPANESE ATTEND SHINTO SERVICES IN HIROSHIMA FOR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES KILLED IN ATOM BOMB BLAST OF WORLD WAR II.

LOCATION: HIROSHIMA, JAPAN

PHOTOGRAPHER:MILLER, WAYNE.LT. 

TAKEN BY (UNIT)

LOCAL NO: TR-15646

CLASSIFICATION: RELEASED



Friday, March 29, 2024

Bodies of Russian soldiers lie on the front line in the village of Andriyevka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on September 16, 2023, in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Ukrainian troops left dozens of dead Russian soldiers behind.

     Russian soldiers lie on the front line in the village of Andrievka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on September 16, 2023, in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Ukrainian troops fought their way through scorched forests for two months. It demonstrated the difficulty of the counteroffensive in eastern and southern Ukraine. When we collected the bodies, we found the body of 19-year-old Riley, killed in the first battle, and Zima. Other bodies were carefully bagged and carried through the woods. Ukrainian troops left dozens of dead Russian soldiers behind.

   Beginning on September 14, Ukrainian forces finally carried out the recapture of the village of Andriivka, more than three months after receiving orders to do so. Breaking through Russian artillery fire and grenades fired from drones, they fired on Russian troops fleeing in front of them, and September 14 came and went in the blink of an eye. Ukrainian troops fired artillery into the small village of Andriyevka and set up a smoke screen over the main street. Russian artillery hit Russian soldiers who retreated or surrendered. The last 100 meters were a mixture of blood, metal, trash, spent bullets, and shredded armor.

 Ukrainian troops went door to door, taking prisoners of Russian soldiers and killing those who fought back. Even after the tail end of the Russian army was driven out, the village of Andriivka remained under constant bombardment, drones blaring from both sides. on september 16, the Ukrainian flag was raised over Andriivka. Andriyivka was now nothing but piles of bricks and burnt trees, and the smell of death was in the air.

 About 13,000 more Russian troops have been killed or wounded since the October-December offensive around the Avdivka-Novopavlivka axis in eastern Ukraine. on December 17, 2023, Russian forces lost nearly 350,000 men since they invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The number of Russian troops lost was approximately 1,000.










WARNING: The bodies of Russian soldiers lie at the frontline in Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Ukrainian brigade’s two-month battle to fight its way through a charred forest shows the challenges of the country’s counteroffensive in the east and south. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

On the Eastern Front of World War II, in November 1941, in the village of Borok, he carried out the public flogging of peasants of Russian descent who had defied the occupying German forces.

  On the Eastern Front of World War II, public floggings of civilian peasants of Russian descent were carried out in the village of Borokh in the Moscow region in November 1941. Peasants who defied the German occupying authorities were subjected to public flogging. German soldiers whipped the peasants' buttocks. Many people in occupied Europe actively cooperated with the Germans and looked down on suspects whose upper and lower bodies were immobilized so that they could be whipped. When their country was occupied by the Germans from the Soviet Union, some locals took revenge by beating and shooting Soviet Red Army collaborators.

 A photograph found in the belongings of a murdered German officer shows the Soviet Red Army's "We became landowners, we became slaves," said the officer. It was accompanied by an explanatory note: "We will become landowners, acquire Slavic slaves, and treat them as we please." In the Moscow region, Nazi German troops carried out genocidal abuses.

 In the Moscow region, Nazi Germany committed the war crime of genocide in the Moscow region, occupied by Nazi German troops from October 1941 to January 1942. Civilians were tortured, killed, looted, and driven from their homes to make room for German military units. Forced labor was used to build German defense lines. The total number of victims of the occupation period in the Moscow region amounted to more than 26,000 and property damage to about 6.4 trillion rubles, the prosecutor's office noted.





Thursday, March 28, 2024

On April 28, 1909, three Mexican prisoners were shot en masse in Chalco for the murder of a policeman by dictator Porfirio Diaz in the twilight hours before the Mexican Revolution.

  On April 28, 1909, Mexicans Arcadio Jimenez, Hilario Silva, and Marcelino Martinez were shot dead en masse in Chalco for allegedly killing police officers during the tense twilight hours before the Mexican Revolution by dictator Porfirio Diaz. 

 The Mexican Revolution, which broke out between 1910 and 1917, was a democratic revolution aimed at overthrowing the Diaz dictatorship, democratization, agrarian reform, and transformation of social and economic structures. After a civil war, the foundations of Mexico were laid by the new constitution of 1917. About 900,000 people lost their lives to famine, disease, and banditry from the civil war casualties of the Mexican Revolution. Hostile regime forces scoured the cities for unemployed recruits in a devastated economy. Hanging and firing squads disposed of prisoners and civilians without permission. Frequent hangings and prisoner executions became a terror to the populace, who, due to years of starvation in the capital city of Mexico City in 1915, registered for conscription as regime soldiers rather than die of starvation. 

 In Chalco, Mexico, on April 28, 1909, soldiers of the 10th Rural Brigade searched for three prisoners and placed them in prison; the three prisoners were carried to the scaffold of the barriolet and received spiritual support from Ayotzingo and a Chalco priest. Three lines were drawn with lime on the walls of the adobe house and the condemned prisoners were lined up to be executed. When the condemned prisoners reached the wall, their relatives said goodbye. The sad faces of the women, the resignation of the prisoners, and the unintelligible children were captured.

 Chalco's political cadres visited the arrested Arcadio Jimenez and bandaged his eyes, his last hope. Hilario Silva and Marcelino Martinez, however, wanted to die by sight. Before they were killed, in a trembling voice, they said to the representatives of the police and the judiciary, "I bid farewell to all this world." After the priest had given them their feast, Lieutenant Muñoz de Cotte ordered the regime soldiers who prepared the execution. He raised his bayonet, swung it down firmly, and ended the lives of the suspects by rupturing their hearts at the firing squad. Doctors certified the deaths as confirmed.



Wednesday, March 27, 2024

In Peking after the occupation by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, prisoners suspected of being Yihe Dan were publicly beheaded in August 1900 in the execution streets as an immediate reprisal. Looting, robbery, pillaging, rape, and murder took place.

  In Beijing, after the occupation by the Allied Forces of the Eight Kingdoms, prisoners suspected of being Yihe Dan were publicly beheaded in August 1900 in the execution streets as an immediate reprisal. The main areas of the Uihe Dan Rebellion originated in Shandong Province, where German troops had advanced.

 In the mid-19th century, China was forced to open up to the Han Chinese by the Opium War and other wars. Unequal treaties that made concessions to Western powers and even to Japan limited Chinese sovereignty. Conflicts in China's sphere of influence intensified after the Sino-Japanese War. After unsuccessful negotiations, the German Reich led a naval force to occupy Qingdao Bay in the wake of the murder of two missionaries, and in 1898, a treaty with China ceded the Qingdao city lease to the German Reich for 99 years.

 The Yihe Dan Rebellion, a secret society known as the Boxers by Europeans, was formed. Opposing the marginalization of China and the presumption of Christianity, they demanded China's independence and restoration After 1899, rebellions initially broke out in the provinces, destroying railroads and missions and killing missionaries and Chinese Christians By the early summer of 1900, hundreds of thousands of Chinese had joined the rebellion. In the mission district of Beijing, 950 foreigners and 3,000 Chinese Christians were trapped, and a German missionary was killed. As the Yihe Dan rebellion spread, hostile foreign powers formed an allied force of eight nations at the mouth of Peihu Lake and off the coast of Dagu. The fort off Dagu was bombarded and stormed by the navy. The forces of the eight countries fought their way to Beijing, meeting strong resistance along the shores of Peihu Lake and along the railroad line. Temporarily cut off from their stronghold by the Chinese forces, and in the midst of a severe retreat, a detachment of the German Navy was ordered to the front line. After 55 days of siege due to the German rearmament advance, those imprisoned in Peking were liberated on August 14, 1900, with reinforcements from the relief forces.

 At the request of the German Emperor, a joint high command of the powers was formed, and the Prussian Marshal Waldersee was appointed. Numerous expeditions were ordered, and looting, robbery, pillaging, rape, and murder took place. in the fall of 1901, China signed a peace treaty. The powers gained the right to station troops: between the end of July 1901 and the end of October 1901, some 15,000 men of the East Asian Expeditionary Force were stationed in China.



Tuesday, March 26, 2024

As a result of clashes with armed guerrilla groups, many Japanese soldiers and officers were killed and their bodies placed on stretchers. The bodies were buried en masse in a cemetery in Singapore.

  The invaders, Japanese soldiers by the Japanese military, met with armed resistance. As a result of clashes with Chinese guerrilla groups, many Japanese soldiers and officers were killed and their bodies placed on stretchers. They were buried en masse in a cemetery in Singapore. More than one million Japanese soldiers and officers lost their lives in the Pacific War as a result of mischief. Japanese soldiers and officers voluntarily died for the benefit of the Japanese nation and warlords.

 During the defense of Singapore, Chinese guerrilla forces fought against the Japanese invasion. The overseas Chinese community in Singapore joined the fight against the aggressive Japanese forces through the medium of the Dal Force. The Dal Force, formally the Overseas Chinese Anti-Japanese Volunteer Force of Singapore, was a guerrilla unit of irregular forces within the British Army's Channel Colonial Volunteer Force during World War II. The unit drew from 1,00 to about 3,000 Singaporean Chinese and was created on December 25, 1941, by Lieutenant Colonel John Daly of the Malayan Federal Police Force. The unit was called the Dal Force, which it was. To the Chinese in Singapore, it was known as the Overseas Chinese Anti-Japanese Volunteer Force. The unit took part in the Battle of Singapore and some of its members conducted guerrilla operations against the Japanese during the Japanese occupation. The Chinese Volunteer Army of Darfur fought fiercely against the Japanese.

 Dal Force volunteers were deployed to the front lines on February 5. The unit suffered severe casualties due to lack of training, equipment, and armaments. One unit of Darforce fought a Japanese machine gun battalion until it was wiped out. Meanwhile, Australian units armed with machine guns retreated from the scene. The tide of the war remained unchanged, and on February 13, 1942, Lieutenant Colonel Dalry assembled at headquarters to announce that the British government had decided to halt the fighting. About 300 Darfur soldiers were killed or wounded in action. Many men and women were captured for their involvement in Darfur, tortured, and executed in a purge massacre.



 

Monday, March 25, 2024

On the Eastern Front of World War II, in 1941, the Soviet Red Army fought the Germans on the Smolenks front, some 400 kilometers from Moscow, killing a low-ranking Soviet Hronvuk soldier.

   On the Eastern Front of World War II, in 1941, the Soviet Red Army fought the Germans on the Smolenks front, some 400 kilometers from Moscow, killing a low-ranking Soviet Hronvuk soldier. Their bodies were left lying in the snow on the roadside, and on December 29, 1941 the Red Army recovered territory on the outskirts of Moscow and clamored about the atrocities in the German izguns.

 The Germans suffered many casualties, but the Soviets suffered even more. Like many photographs taken during the war, Barthel-Manz's were censored. This was because the Soviet government did not want the public to see the greater destruction and death of Soviet soldiers.

 This was a scene that was repeated countless times during Operation Barbarossa. Soviet soldiers in Fronvuk did everything in their power to defend their homeland. Both armies, the Lancers, ordinary Germans, and the Frontviks, low-ranking Russians, fought and tried to survive in very similar combat conditions. Both served regimes led by dictatorships that were infinitely more evil and violent. Both fought bravely in attack and tenaciously in defense. Both the heat of summer and the cold of winter took their toll, and the dust and mud on both sides of the battle lines, poor food, inadequate medical care, lack of leave, and the abundance of pests made life miserable for the soldiers of both armies.


 Lancers, the German lancer cavalry, had the primary task of breaking up infantry columns and mopping up enemy infantry. Lancers charged in several abreast columns. Lancers were deployed when the Soviet Red Army either collapsed or began to withdraw due to artillery and infantry firepower.

 In the Russian Army, all infantry divisions in the Red Army were labeled Strelkovye divisions. The front vieq applied only to infantry fighting on the front line combatant front. Any violation of the solemn oath of the Russian army was met with the severe punishment of Soviet law and the full hatred and contempt of the working class. Frontviks had to live, fight, and die in small foxholes dug into the earth. Soldiers not engaged in combat spent at least an hour each day in political indoctrination into communism.



Sunday, March 24, 2024

A Palestinian man carefully carries the body of a girl recovered from the rubble of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on November 1, 2023, the day after an Israeli air strike.

  A Palestinian man carries the body of a girl recovered from the rubble of the Jabalia refugee camp (Jabalia refugee camp) in northern Gaza on November 1, 2023, the day after an Israeli airstrike. In Jabalia refugee camp, a densely populated area in northern Gaza. Israeli airstrikes caused numerous deaths and devastation.

 Israeli forces bombed the densely populated Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza for the second consecutive day on November 1, Palestinians wander among the rubble of buildings targeted by Israeli airstrikes in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. Body bags were piled up in the morgue of the nearby Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia and carried out of the hospital. The wounded filled hospital beds and were taken to Dar al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. According to Palestinian authorities and the director of the Indonesian hospital that received some of the casualties, about 50 more people were killed and dozens injured in the bombing in Jabalia on October 331.

 At the site of the airstrike, rescue workers and volunteers stood around a large crater digging by hand through piles of rubble, searching for people trapped under collapsed buildings and bodies Rescue workers in the Oct. 31 airstrike raked the surface layers of concrete and steel chunks from collapsed houses by hand in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. The Israeli airstrike left a trail of concrete and steel chunks on the surface of the ground near the surface. They searched for survivors and bodies of near-surface victims of Israeli airstrikes. Bodies trapped deep in the ground will not be buried for months. After more than three weeks of heavy shelling of the Gaza Strip, heavy machinery could not reach the bombing sites through damaged roads and ran out of fuel to run the machines.

 The Israeli military said its fighter jets attacked a Hamas commander in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing Muhammad Assar, the leader of Hamas' anti-tank missile unit. Hamas, however, strongly denied that its leader was in the Jabalia refugee camp, the largest in the northern Gaza Strip. The UN Resident Palestinian Observer said the airstrike was a crime and called for action by the International Criminal Court.














Warning: A Palestinian man carries the body of a baby recovered from the rubble of the Jabalia refugee camp one day after an Israeli airstrike hit the area. MOHAMMED SABER/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK

Saturday, March 23, 2024

The U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and the explosion left a Japanese civilian mother and her baby homeless and wandering around the city.

    

  非公開の日本原爆被爆者の写真

   ーアメリカ軍原爆調査団ー

アメリカ国立公文書館 2024年2月23日

(The National Archives College Park, Maryland) 


































TR - 15655
U.S. NAVY
SUBJECT: 
473763 Sept. 1945
CAPTION:
JAPANESE CIVILIANS WHO WERE MADE HOMELESS BY ATOMIC BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.
LOCATION:
HIROSHIMA, JAPAN
PHOTOGRAPHER:
MILLER, WAYNE, LT.
TAKEN BY (UNIT)
LOCAL NO:
TR-15655
CLASSIFICATION:
RELEASED

TR - 15655
アメリカ海軍
件名: 473763 1945年9月
キャプション
広島への原爆投下により家を失った日本の民間人。
場所
日本、広島
フォトグラファー:ミラー、ウェイン、LT:
ミラー、ウェイン、LT.
撮影者:(部隊)
現地番号
TR-15655
分類:
リリース

Friday, March 22, 2024

After the Japanese occupied Nanking, the Nanking Massacre broke out. Chinese prisoners of war in Nanking were used as live firing practice for bayonet test stabbings. Chinese corpses littered the trenches after the massacre.

   The Nanking Massacre holocaust broke out after Japanese troops occupied Nanking on December 13, 1937 during the Sino-Japanese War. Japanese soldiers used Chinese prisoners of war as live firing practice for test stabbing with bayonets. Chinese corpses littered the trenches after the massacre. This photo captures the devastation of the Nanking Massacre perpetrated by Japanese soldiers against the Chinese.

 China was the scene of the Sino-Japanese War that began on July 7, 1937, when fighting erupted to halt the Japanese invasion. China ultimately lost some 20 million lives in the Sino-Japanese War. The approximately 17 million Chinese victims were not soldiers, but unarmed and defenseless civilians. By the end of the Nanking Massacre, an estimated 300,000 people had died, but estimates of the death toll varied widely, with some figures around 40,000, and there was fierce controversy over the estimates.

 The worst massacre occurred on December 13, 1937, about six weeks after Japanese troops raided the Chinese capital of Nanking. The massacre in Nanking began even before the Japanese reached the city walls. At the beginning of the invasion, the Japanese army moved from battle to battle throughout China, slaughtering and looting under strict orders to kill all prisoners of war.

 When the Nanking Massacre began, they burned the city walls, homes, surrounding forests, and even villages in their path. They looted buildings and stole from the poor and the rich. They slaughtered scores of people they met by chance. Some of the victims of the Nanking Massacre were thrown into unmarked mass graves and left to die. The Chinese people mutilated by Japanese soldiers were not Chinese combatants; the victims were unarmed, defenseless civilians.

 In the mere six weeks between December 13, 1937 and the Nanking Massacre, an estimated 20,000 to 80,000 Chinese women were brutally raped and sexually assaulted by the invading soldiers. They dragged out women and even small children and violently gang-raped them. When they finished raping their victims, they often killed them. Pregnant mothers were mutilated, and rape victims were stabbed to death with bamboo sticks and bayonets.

 The Japanese government's Murakami Cabinet officially apologized for the atrocities committed during World War II on August 15, 1995, and in 1984 the Japanese Army Veterans Association interviewed Japanese veterans who witnessed the Nanking Massacre in order to refute reports of Japanese military atrocities. The Veterans Association found that the veterans spoke candidly about the widespread atrocities. The Veterans Association's journal published an apology for the Nanking Massacre. The Veterans of Foreign Wars' journal, "Whatever the severity of the war or the particular circumstances of the psychology of war, we are simply speechless in the face of this illegal massacre. As a pre-war military official, I can only apologize deeply to the Chinese people. It was truly a regrettable act of barbarism."



Thursday, March 21, 2024

On December 29, 1890, the U.S. Army massacred approximately 150 to 300 Lakota Indians at the Wounded Knee Massacre in southwestern South Dakota. Three weeks after the massacre, the bodies of four Lakota Sioux were wrapped in blankets.

  On December 29, 1890, the U.S. Army massacred approximately 150 to 300 Lakota Indians in the Wounded Knee Creek area of southwestern South Dakota. Three weeks after the Wounded Knee massacre, the bodies of four Lakota Sioux were wrapped in blankets.

 In November 1890, U.S. troops arrived on the Lakota reservation with the goal of stopping the rise of the Ghost Dance, an Indian belief ceremony; on December 15, 43 tribal police officers were sent to Sitting Bull's cabin, and a fierce struggle broke out; on December 28, 1890, the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry reached the Miniconjou tribe's camp near Wounded Knee Creek.

 On December 29, the 7th Cavalry assembled the Miniconjou Tribe and began confiscating their weapons. The cavalry surrounded the Miniconjou tribe, who gathered in a circle in a nearby vacant lot. Four staple guns were placed on a hilltop in the vacant lot.

 The guns accidentally went off and the 7th Cavalry opened fire, leading to a violent conflict. At the first moment, a defenseless Miniconjou tribe member was shot dead. Some women and children fled and took refuge in a nearby ravine. The 7th Cavalry fired artillery shells into the Minicongjou tribe's positions. The fleeing Miniconjou were cut down by the cavalry.


 Approximately 250 to 300 Miniconjou were killed, nearly half of them women and children. At least 25 U.S. soldiers were also killed. The massacre was suppressed by the U.S. Army Plains Indians and organized resistance was cut off.



Wednesday, March 20, 2024

In the Vietnam War, after a fierce battle on the battlefield in 1963, the body of a Liberation Front (Vietcong) soldier lay dead at dawn. Shot by heavy machine gun fire, the bodies were shot through like beehives.

  In the Vietnam War, after the fierce fighting ended on the battlefield in 1963, the bodies of Liberation Front (Vietcong) soldiers lay dead at dawn on the battlefield. Shot by heavy machine gun fire, the bodies were shot through like beehives. around July 1963, guerrilla warfare by anti-government guerrillas had broken out in Vietnam. Military advisors and government troops sent by the U.S. engaged in repeated battles with the Vietcong.

 By early 1963, the number of American soldiers stationed in Vietnam had grown from a few hundred to over 10,000 within a few years. It had been less than a decade since the Korean War broke out and a cease-fire was called. The direct impact of the U.S. military's involvement in the conflict in Vietnam, on the other side of the world, was part of the conversation of the American public; in 1963, the growing role of the U.S. military in Vietnam had not yet developed into a comprehensive and divisive issue.

 On January 25, 1963, LIFE magazine published a strong cover story and article, "We Wade Deeper Into the Jungle War," accompanied by color photographs, which attracted a great deal of attention; even before LIFE's photographs were published in 1963 and throughout the Vietnam War, LIFE magazine and other publications and the major U.S. mass media were still reporting the story in print The June 12, 1964 issue of LIFE featured Akihiko Okamura's "The Ugly Vietnam War (page 9)," which provoked a photographic response.

 The photographs in the magazine vividly documented the horrifyingly expanding conflict and suggested the vividness of the war. Raggedly severed limbs, torched corpses, and walls covered with entrails were too upsetting to the raw and vulnerable American public. For Americans accustomed to the major mass media, gruesome pictures of the Vietnam War were routinely published in popular weekly magazines.



Tuesday, March 19, 2024

This photograph was produced in the winter of 1986 during the conflict between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, when 13 members of a Soviet Red Army reconnaissance unit were ambushed by Afghan guerrilla forces near Mogor, Afghanistan.

This photograph was made in the winter of 1986 during the Soviet-Afghanistan conflict, and depicts 13 members of a Soviet Red Army reconnaissance unit being ambushed by Afghan guerrilla forces near Moghul, Afghanistan.


   In the Soviet-Afghan conflict of the 1980s (April 1978 - April 1992), recently slain Russian Red Army soldiers and others made an impossible comeback to life, eerily masquerading as a dialogue between the dead and others. It was a brutal reflection of what war is really like.

 During the Soviet-Afghan war in the winter of 1986, the mujahidin attacked a Soviet patrol near Mogor. The mujahidin were killed in the line of duty in the Islamic holy war (jihad). In the inhospitable Afghan desert, 13 Soviet Red Army soldiers masqueraded their resurrection from the dead. Bloody, dismembered body parts were shown.

 One Russian soldier showed his wounds to another. Three of the slain mujahidin were shown on the battlefield. One of the mujahidin was inspecting the contents of a bag, while the other two were collecting weapons and ammunition from the dead Soviet Red Army soldiers. A Soviet Red Army recruit playfully piggybacked one of his comrades, while a third dangled a piece of meat in front of him.

 Digital photographs were used by Jeff Wall to create "Dead Troops Talk" in 1992. As of 2020, this photograph was the highest-priced by Wall, having sold for $3,666,500 at Christie's in New York City on May 8, 2012.



Monday, March 18, 2024

A Jewish girl was murdered in Lodz Ghetto, Poland, during deportation in September 1942. The girl's body was tagged "54" on the body for burial in the morgue.

  A Jewish girl was murdered in Lodz Ghetto, Poland, during deportation in September 1942. The girl's body was tagged "54" on the body for burial in the morgue.

 The Germans invaded Lodz (Lodz), Poland, on September 8, 1939, and by the time the Nazi SS invaded the city (renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans) on October 28, the Germans had restricted Jewish financial transactions, banned holidays, seized, prohibited trade, and forced many Jews to work in camps. They established the second concentration camp for Jews after the Warsaw Ghetto.

 The Germans isolated the Lodz Ghetto from the rest of the country. The fence surrounding the ghetto was guarded by German troops. Initially, it was guarded by the Volksdeutsche police and later by the Nazi Party (NSDAP). The Lodz Ghetto was part of the German military's campaign to kill Jews throughout Europe, and ghetto residents continued to die from exhaustion, lack of food, and disease.

 In 1941, the Nazis established a concentration camp at Chelmno Nad Nerem, about 48 km northwest of Lodz. Prisoners were deported, sealed in the rear of gas cars, and murdered with poisonous exhaust fumes. Bodies were incinerated and buried; in the first half of 1942, some 52,304 Lodz Jews were forced onto a freight train at the Radgoszcz station and murdered at Chelmno, along with some 4,500 Roma who had been deported earlier.

 Beginning in late August 1942, the Germans removed from the ghetto those who could not work, including the sick, children, and the elderly; on September 1, the Jewish police seized patients from hospitals and ordered their deportation to the train; on September 4, Rumkowski, a Jew, gave a public address to ghetto parents to hand over their resettled children He gave a speech: by September 12, 15,681 people, including 5,862 children, had been transferred from the ghetto and murdered in Chelmno.

 In the winter of 1944, Polish photographer Henryk Ross hid a box full of photographs of the Lodz Holocaust from the Nazis. The Russian Red Army liberated the ghetto in mid-January 1945. After the war ended, Henryk returned home, dug up the box, photographed it, and published it, shocking the public with the horrific moment captured on camera.











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