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Sir Martin Furnival Jones (1912–97) qualified as a solicitor before joining the Service in 1941. He served with distinction during the Second World War, working in a variety of roles at the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) and...
Lire la suiteSir Dick White (1906–93) was a unique figure in the British intelligence services, as the only person to have headed both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service. He joined the Security Service in January 1936 after being recruited by...
Lire la suiteSir Percy Silitoe (1888–1962) came from a police background, like his predecessor Sir David Petrie. He served as Chief Constable of a number of police forces including Kent, Glasgow and Sheffield. He became the Security Service's Director-General in 1946....
Lire la suiteSir David Petrie (1879–1961) worked in the Indian Police from 1900-1936, serving in a variety of police intelligence roles. He headed the Delhi Intelligence Bureau of the Indian Police and served as the Chairman of the Indian Public Service Commission...
Lire la suiteDurant le procès de Francis André, en janvier 1946, sa laideur, et plus encore l’horreur de ses multiples crimes, impressionnent le journaliste Lachat qui écrit : « L’image de la brute aux 160 victimes ne s’effacera jamais de ma mémoire. Il était plus...
Lire la suiteDécès de Madame Simone Lagrange à 85 ans. C’est avec une grande tristesse que nous apprenons le décès de Madame Simone Lagrange à 85 ans. Survivante des camps de la mort, elle avait été torturée pendant plusieurs jours par Klaus Barbie dit le « boucher...
Lire la suiteMordecai Anielewicz was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1919. After finishing secondary school Anielewicz joined the Zionist movement and became a full-time organizer of the movement. When the German Army invaded Poland in September 1939, Anielewicz managed...
Lire la suiteRoland von Hößlin came from an Augsburg family. As a young officer he saw how the National Socialists conducted the war, and this caused him to change from being a faithful supporter to a firm opponent of Hitler. As commander of a tank reconnaissance...
Lire la suiteWolfgang Abendroth was born in Elberfeld in 1906 and grew up in a family of Social Democrats. His father was a teacher. He joined the Kommunistische Jugend Deutschland (Communist Youth Germany) at the age of 14. As a result of his agitation for a united...
Lire la suiteMembers of the ASU community this week are remembering the legacy of longtime Arizona congressman John J. Rhodes Jr. who died from cancer Aug. 24 at his home in Mesa. Rhodes, the first Arizona Republican elected to the House, served in Congress for 30...
Lire la suiteCharles Francis Adams III, (born Aug. 2, 1866, Quincy, Mass., U.S.—died June 11, 1954, Boston, Mass.), American lawyer and businessman, government official, yachtsman, and philanthropist who made Harvard University one of the most abundantly endowed academic...
Lire la suiteLa "Nuit de Cristal" (Kristallnacht) est le nom donné au violent pogrom qui eut lieu les 9 et 10 novembre 1938, dans toute l'Allemagne et les territoires récemment annexés (Autriche et Sudètes), à l'initiative des dirigeants du parti nazi et des S.A....
Lire la suiteDÉCLENCHEMENT DE LA PREMIÈRE GUERRE MONDIALE La Première Guerre mondiale constitua le premier grand conflit international du XXe siècle. L'assassinat de l'archiduc François-Ferdinand, héritier du trône austro-hongrois, et de sa femme, l'archiduchesse...
Lire la suiteLe pacte germano-soviétique, connu aussi sous le nom de pacte Ribbentrop-Molotov (du nom des deux ministres des Affaires étrangères qui ont négocié l'accord), était constitué de deux parties : un accord économique, signé le 19 août 1939, qui prévoyait...
Lire la suiteLa Shoah prit place dans le contexte plus large de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Encore sous le choc de la défaite allemande de la Première Guerre mondiale, le régime hitlérien cherchait à conquérir un nouvel empire, un vaste "espace vital" (Lebensraum)...
Lire la suiteLe dossier C’est à Nuremberg, la ville des immenses rassemblements nazis, que se tient, du 20 novembre 1945 au 1er octobre 1946, un grand procès mettant en accusation les hauts responsables du IIIe Reich. En avril 1946, un second procès débute à Tokyo. Procès...
Lire la suiteDer Mann, der Hitlers Jugend führte Er schrieb Gedichte, liebte Goethes „Faust“ und die Neunte Symphonie von Beethoven, aber vor allem vergötterte er Adolf Hitler. Baldur von Schirach, geboren 1907 in Weimar, war erst 17 Jahre, als er Hitler zum ersten...
Lire la suiteItalian general and politician. Emilio De Bono, (born March 19, 1866, Cassano d’Adda, Italy—died Jan. 11, 1944, Verona), Italian general, an early convert to Fascism who helped the party’s founder and chief, Benito Mussolini, gain power. Entering the...
Lire la suiteItalian philosopher. Giovanni Gentile, (born May 30, 1875, Castelvetrano, Italy—died April 15, 1944, Florence), major figure in Italian idealist philosophy, politician, educator, and editor, sometimes called the “philosopher of Fascism.” His “actual idealism”...
Lire la suiteItalian politician. Roberto Farinacci, (born Oct. 16, 1892, Isernia, Italy—died April 28, 1945, Vimercate), radical Italian politician and Fascist ras, or local party boss, who helped Benito Mussolini rise to power in 1922 and who became an important...
Lire la suiteItalian aviator. Italo Balbo, (born June 6, 1896, near Ferrara, Italy—died June 28, 1940, Tobruk, Libya), Italian airman and fascist leader who played a decisive role in developing Benito Mussolini’s air force. After studying at Florence University and...
Lire la suiteEntre 1933 et 1945, l'Allemagne nazie établit environ 20 000 camps afin d'y incarcérer ses millions de victimes. Ces camps remplirent de multiples fonctions : ils servirent de camps de travaux forcés, de camps de transit ou de camps de mise à mort construits...
Lire la suiteLa Shoah — mot hébreu signifiant "catastrophe" — désigne la persécution et l'extermination systématiques et bureaucratiques d'environ 6 millions de Juifs, par le régime nazi et ses collaborateurs. Le terme grec "Holocauste" qui signifie "sacrifice par...
Lire la suiteAprès le génocide, la loi fut un moyen d'obtenir justice. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des tribunaux internationaux et nationaux jugèrent des personnes accusées d'être des criminels de guerre. A partir de l'hiver 1942, les gouvernements des puissances...
Lire la suiteRobert Ley, the seventh of eleven children, was born on 15th February, 1890. When he was a child, his father got deeply into debt and tried to raise insurance money to repay it by setting fire to his farm. Richard Evans has argued: "To judge from Ley's...
Lire la suitePortrait of Robert Ley In 1933, after all German trade unions were dissolved, Robert Ley (1890-1945) established the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF; German Labor Front). As head of the DAF, whose membership totaled 25 million, Ley was known as the "undisputed...
Lire la suiteLe SIPO-SD du Mans, qui dépendait de l'antenne régionale d'Angers, se trouvait 92, rue des Fontaines, actuellement rue des Victimes du nazisme. Ce document donne les noms des membres de la Gestapo au Mans, ainsi que leurs grades Tous les interrogatoires...
Lire la suiteHans Jüttner SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS. Nr SS - 264 497 (wstąpił w dn. 17.05.1935). Nr NSDAP - 541 163 (wstąpił w dn. 01.06.1931). Urodzony - 02.03.1894 r. w Schmiegel, (Prowincja Posen). Zmarł - 24.05.1965 r. w Bad Tölz. Promocje:...
Lire la suiteAlbert Einstein was great scientist. He is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. Albert...
Lire la suiteHeinrich Rudolph Hertz was born on February 22, 1857, in a well-to-do family in Hamburg, Germany. His parents began his education with the intention of shaping his career in architecture and engineering. But soon they realized his interest in pure science...
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