WORLD HISTORY AND FACTS

A lone captured Soviet soldier standing in the middle of his German captures after attempting to break out of Vyazemsky during Operation Typhoon, September 1941. The young man seems to be confused about the situation. Operation Taifun was the name of the Wehrmacht High Command's plan for the occupation of Moscow. The operation was part of Operation Barbarossa and, like the latter, was planned long before implementation. The plan included in detail the movements of the troops and the dates by which maneuvers had to be carried out. In this original plan of Operation Barbarossa, Moscow was to fall into German hands exactly 5 weeks after the invasion of the Soviet Union, which began on June 22, 1941. For this, the troops had to reach the city in early August. The fall of Moscow, and the associated collapse of the Soviet command structure and supplies (Moscow was the country's central rail hub), were expected to give German forces strategic freedom to occupy the entire E...

The  Battle of Moscow  was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between September 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union. The German Strategic Offensive, named Operation Typhoon, called for two pincer offensives, one to the north of Moscow against the Kalinin Front by the 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies, simultaneously severing the Moscow–Leningrad railway, and another to the south of Moscow Oblast against the Western Front south of Tula, by the 2nd Panzer Army, while the 4th Army advanced directly towards Moscow from the west. Initially, the Soviet forces conducted a strateg...

This is the last photo taken of Hachikō, a Japanese Akita dog remembered for his unwavering loyalty to his owner. Hachikō belonged to Professor Eizaburo Ueno who lived in Shibuya and taught at Tokyo Imperial University during the early 1920s. Every day, Ueno would walk to Shibuya Station with Hachikō and take the train to work. Once he was done for the day, he would take the train back and return to the station at precisely 3 PM. Hachikō would always be there waiting patiently to accompany the professor home. One day, Ueno suffered a stroke and never arrived at the station. Hachikō went to the station every day for 9 years until his death in 1935... 💔💔💔 Image : Respective Owner We hope that you have enjoyed reading our blog on the world history and facts. If you enjoy this blog please let us know in the comments below. If you are interested in history, we recommend you check out our other blogs here on the world history and facts. Thank you for reading.

Barbara Marton Farkas never forgot the moment she realized the Soviet Army was closing in on Weisswasser, the subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp where she was imprisoned.  "During the night we start to hear all kind of noises: airplane and shooting, and they said that the Russia are starting to, to get closer and closer.” In February 1945, Soviet forces liberated Gross-Rosen, but they found only a few prisoners still there. As the Soviets approached, Barbara and tens of thousands of other prisoners were evacuated from the camp and many of its subcamps. “They evacuate the barracks, and they put us on feet to walk.” Despite being so close to liberation, it would be months before Barbara would finally be free.  Barbara, born to a Jewish family in 1920, had a happy childhood in Romania. Her parents owned a local grocery store, and she thrived in school. However, in 1940, her town was annexed by Hungary and antisemitic policies prevented Barbara from attendin...

The  Battle of the Bulge , also known as the  Ardennes Offensive , was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. The battle lasted for five weeks from 16 December 1944 to 28 January 1945, towards the end of the war in Europe. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg. It overlapped with the Alsace Offensive, subsequently the Colmar Pocket, another series of battles launched by the Germans in support of the Ardennes thrust. The primary military objectives were to deny further use of the Belgian Port of Antwerp to the Allies and to split the Allied lines, which potentially could have allowed the Germans to encircle and destroy the four Allied forces. The Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, who since December 1941 had assumed direct command of the German army, believed that achieving these object...

Join us in paying tribute to decorated Polish war veteran Ludwik Jaszczur, who has passed away at the age of 95. 🕯️ Jaszczur fought bravely alongside the famous 'soldier bear' Wojtek during WW2 and was a friend of legendary Polish commander General Maczek, whose tank division was instrumental in the Allied liberation of France. Born in 1927, Jaszczur and his family were forcefully removed from their family home in Poland by the Nazis when he was just 12 years of age. Thankfully, he managed to escape and eventually joined the Polish army. He was still in his teens when he fought in the Battle of Monte towards the end of the Second World War. It was during the pivotal Italian offensive that Jaszczur met legendary soldier bear, Wojtek, who was trained to carry arms for the Polish troops. He forged an unlikely lifelong friendship with Wojtek the bear and visited the animal regularly at Edinburgh Zoo. Wojtek lived out the rest of his days at the zoo until his death in 1...

The face of war: The first press pictures of dead U.S. soldiers that was presented to the public, 1943. At a time when censors used a heavy hand to keep the American public from knowing and seeing the carnage in the Pacific during World War II, this ground-breaking photograph of dead American soldiers confronted the American public for the first time with the real face of the war. During American involvement in World War II (1941–45), propaganda was used to increase support for the war and commitment to an Allied victory.  Using a vast array of media, propagandists instigated hatred for the enemy and support for America's allies, urged greater public effort for war production and victory gardens, persuaded people to save some of their material so that more material could be used for the war effort, and sold war bonds. Patriotism became the central theme of advertising throughout the war, as large scale campaigns were launched to sell war bonds, promote efficiency ...

A history of oral sex, from fellatio's ancient roots to the modern blow job It turns out that there are some things that we humans have basically been doing since the beginning of time — and oral sex happens to be one of those hallowed, ancient traditions. While it feels like the concept of giving and getting head was popularized in the 1970s and brought into the mainstream by The Godfather and Deep Throat, the act has a long, rich history that dates back thousands of years. Let's dive in, shall we? Ancient sexy times Art depicting sexual acts has been found around the globe, left behind by countless ancient peoples and dating back thousands of years. Author and scholar Thierry Leguay told Salon in 2000 that "the first clear real traces of fellatio are from ancient Egypt ... Osiris was killed by his brother and cut into pieces. His sister Iris put the pieces together but, by chance, the penis was missing. An artificial penis was made out of clay, and Iris '...

He rarely ever spoke about it - Inside The Chichijima Incident George H.W. Bush’s Harrowing Escape From Cannibal Enemies During World War II Though he narrowly escaped, almost all of Bush's fellow pilots were tortured, killed, and eaten on that fateful day in September 1944 that became known as the Chichijima Incident. At dawn on Sept. 2, 1944, a group of American pilots fighting in the Pacific theater of World War II took to the skies. Only one would survive their bombing mission to the Bonin Islands — the rest would be tortured, killed, and cannibalized in what became known as the Chichijima Incident For years, the U.S. Navy obscured the horrifying truth of what happened at Chichijima. One lawyer involved in the episode remarked, “The Navy didn’t want people back home to know that their sons were eaten.” As for the survivor? The sole man to escape the awful fate of the Chichijima Incident was a 20-year-old pilot. His name was George H.W. Bush. DETAILED HISTORY OF THE ...

Amazing examples of weapons from the 16th-17th century. Combined edged weapons and firearms! A  pistol sword  is a sword with a pistol or revolver attached, usually alongside the blade. It differs from a rifle with a bayonet in that the weapon is designed primarily for use as a sword, and the firearm component is typically considered a secondary weapon designed to be an addition to the blade, rather than the sword being a secondary addition to the pistol. In addition, the two components of these weapons typically cannot be separated, unlike most bayonet-fixed rifles. Historically, some flintlock pistols of the 17th and 18th centuries were constructed as gun-swords, with the barrel of the pistol attached to the side of the blade of a shortsword or dagger. A shell guard protected the firing mechanism when it was used as a sword. These were used by French and German hunters to kill wounded wild boar. Examples of these weapons c...

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY 365 555TH PARACHUTE INFANTRY BATTALION [TRIPLE NICKLES] (1944-1947) During the winter of 1943-1944, the first black paratroopers in army history began training at Fort Benning, Georgia. After several months, the segregated unit was moved to Camp Mackall, North Carolina, where it was reorganized and redesignated as Company A of the newly activated 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion. Unlike other African American infantry units officered by whites, the 555th was entirely black since six black officers also completed jump training. By late 1944, the first platoon of Triple Nickles was fully trained, combat-ready, and alerted for European duty. The men were anxious to fight Hitler’s Nazis in Europe or the Japanese in the Pacific. Instead, racial military politics and changing war conditions kept the paratroopers home and away from the war they had been trained to fight. In early 1945, the Triple Nickles had received secret orders from the War Depart...

February 3rd 1943 - Stalingrad The Red Army has completed the destruction of 330,000 trapped troops at Stalingrad, the flower of AH's army, Moscow announced last night in a special bulletin.  This raised the Russians' announced toll of Axis casualties on the Volga since last Fall to more than 500,000 in dead and captured alone. The communiqué, recorded here by the Soviet monitor, said 91,000 troops, including a field marshal, twenty-three generals and thousands of other officers, had surrendered in the last three weeks. An announcement on Sunday said more than 100,000 had been killed in twenty days, and a communiqué last Dec. 31 said 175,000 had been killed and 137,650 captured in the preceding six-week period, beginning with the big Red Army Winter offensive on Nov. 19. Casualties Exceed 500,000 This represents a total of 503,650 Axis troops killed or captured since mid-November, on the basis of Russian announcements, and it does not include Axis casualties in the preced...