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Le 9 juin 1944 est un jour de grand deuil pour Tulle. Affiche placardée sur les murs de Tulle le 9 juin 1944 Sous les yeux de la population, 99 otages, des hommes de seize à soixante ans, sont pendus aux réverbères et aux balcons de la ville par les soldats...

Depuis 2001, Efraim Zuroff du Centre Simon Wiesenthal a produit un rapport d'étape annuel sur l'Enquête mondiale et la poursuite des criminels de guerre nazis qui, depuis au moins 2005, a inclus une liste des criminels « les plus recherchés » qui n'a...

Réalisé par Frank Capra (1939) - Durée 125 mn - Nationalité : américain - Avec James Stewart (Jefferson Smith) , Jean Arthur (Clarissa Saunders) , Claude Rains (Joseph Harrison Paine) ... Synopsis Afin de continuer à mener tranquillement leurs louches...

General Karl -Heinrich held many posts in Nazi Germany. From November 1938 to June 1940 he served as Quartermaster-General on the Army General staff. For six months after that he was Chieft of the Franco-German Armistice Commission. When Russia attacked...

A native of Magdeburg, Helmut Knochen studied history and English at the universities of Leipzig and Gottingen and worked as a teacher and editor. He became a member of the Nazi Party in 1932, joined the SS in 1936, and entered the SD administration....

Born September 4, 1914, in Schleusenau, Bromberg, Germany. From 1941 to 1943, SS Oberscharführer Kurt Wiese, called the “Butcher of Bialystok“, shot to death in Grodno and Bialystok in Poland at least 200 people, including 80 Jewish children as well as...

Born July 16, 1919, in Vienna; died April 19, 1999, in Bochum, Germany Hermine Braunsteiner at her trial. Photo from a newspaper article in die tat, May 29, 1981 The Austrian-born Hermine Braunsteiner was a guard in the Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration...

Curieux personnage au physique de petit employé de bureau, avec lunettes de myope et poil brun, Himmler demeure en dépit de cela la personnification du nazisme dans toute son horreur. Heinrich Himmler vers 1943 (photo de Walter Frentz, DR) Bureaucrate...

John Wayne - Métier : Acteur - Signe : Gémeaux - Date de naissance : dimanche 26 mai 1907 (age: 72 ans) - Date de décès : lundi 11 juin 1979 - Pays : États-Unis. John Wayne naît le 26 mai 1907 dans l’Iowa. Le jeune homme est issu d’une famille modeste...

La Seconde Guerre mondiale se termine officiellement en Europe le 8 mai 1945, à 23h01 (heure allemande), au lendemain de la capitulation sans condition de l'Allemagne nazie, signée le 7 mai à Reims. Elle laisse un bilan sans équivalent dans l'Histoire...

Hans Gottfurcht was a trainee and worker in the textile industry when he joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Central Federation of Salaried Employees (ZdA) in 1913. From 1919 to 1933 he was a labor union official and eventually a ZdA district...

This native of Leipzig joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1928 at the age of 16. From 1930 to 1933, he was a member of the "guard formation" of the republican Reichsbanner (Reich Banner). He was a member of the security detail at political functions...

After the First World War Fritz Goerdeler initially worked as an attorney and mayor in Marienwerder, but was forced to resign his post by the National Socialists in 1933. He then became city treasurer of Königsberg. He was married to Susanne Ulrich, with...

Mordechai Anielewicz, born in Warsaw in 1919, grew up in a working-class Jewish family and joined Zionist groups before the outbreak of World War II. After Warsaw was occupied by German troops, he fled east, hoping to escape to Palestine. Picked up on...

Hans Bernd Gisevius began his service with the political police in Prussia in August 1933 after studying law. As a civil servant, he experienced first hand the creation of the Gestapo and the murder of members of the SA and many innocent people on June...

Les tanks qui dominèrent le champ de bataille dans une collection inédite! Pour la première fois, une collection réunissant les chars les plus emblématiques de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à l’échelle 1/43. De l’Afrique du Nord au front de l’Est, du front...

Les services de la SIPO-SD, appelés le plus souvent « Gestapo », s’installent à Marseille dès l’occupation de la zone sud. Ils aménagent leurs locaux dans une villa au 425 rue Paradis. villa au 425 rue Paradis La SIPO-SD compte six sections. Certaines...

Dans les années 40, Pierre Figuet, alors élève au lycée Lalande de Bourg-en-Bresse, a été membre du réseau de résistants de son établissement. Arrêté par la milice le jour du baccalauréat, il revient pour Vousnousils sur son parcours. Pierre Figuet (à...

Nationalité Américain - Naissance 18 février 1925 (New York - Etats-Unis) - Âge 91 ans. Another Happy Day : photo Ellen Burstyn, George Kennedy, Sam Levinson George Kennedy est né à New York, en 1925, dans une famille baignant dans le show-business. Sa...

Sir John Jones (1923–98) was a former officer in the Royal Artillery and served as a civil servant in the pre-independence Government of Sudan, working for the Sudanese Ministry of Education. He joined the Security Service in 1955. He became Deputy Director...

Sir Howard Smith (1919–96) joined the Service after a long and distinguished career with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. During his 32 years in the Foreign Service he held a variety of posts, including serving as the British ambassador to Czechoslovakia...

Sir Michael Hanley (1918–2001) served as an officer of the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. He became the Assistant Military Attaché in Budapest in 1946. He joined the Security Service in 1948. In 1971, he became the Deputy Director General...

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...

Sir 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...

Sir 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....

Sir 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...

Durant 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...

Décès 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...

Mordecai 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...

Roland 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...