New military history research: Concentration camps during WWII

Holocaust Genocide Studies presents three articles of interest:

T. Fielder Valone addresses the wartime persecution of Jews in Lithuania from the few sources of information available.

Jovan Byford contrasts the collected testimonies from survivors of the Jasenovac concentration camp.  The camp was not a German run but rather established and run by Croatians.  Byford compares the approaches taken by US oral historians and Serbian oral historians in regards to this camp.

 Between 1941-1945: Ustasa's demonstrate sawing off a Serb 

(Branko Jungić from village Grabovac, near Bosanksa Gradiška) man's head.

Michael Fleming addresses the idea that the West did not have good information about the existence of Auschwitz during the war.  Fleming states the Polish government in exile had information which was provided to Western governments but the information was restricted in circulation.  Fleming argues that English and Polish histories on this topic must be linked together to gain a better understanding about the history of what was known about the camp.

 April 24, 1945 - SS First Lieutenant Franz Hossler in front of a truck of deceased prisoners from German concentration camps he helped supervise including Auschwitz.

Today in military history: April 28, 2014

1487 – Battle of Ponte di Crevola (Transalpine campaigns)

 15th century drawing of a soldier

1503 – Battle of Cerignola (Second Italian War) 
1592 – Battle of Ch’ungju (Imjin War)
1760 – Battle of Sainte-Foy (French and Indian War)
1858 – Battle of Grahovac begins (Montenegro) 
1862 – Forts Jackson and St. Philip surrender (US Civil War)

1862 - "Reconnaissance of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the Mississippi, 

by Gun-boats from Flag-officer Farragut's Squadron"

1915 – First battle of Krithia (WWI) 
1937 – Air raids on Guernica ends (Spanish Civil War) 
1945 – Mussolini and mistress captured and killed; Allies take Brescia, Bergamo, Allessandria, and Augsburg  (WWII) 
1947 – Battle of Tang’erli ends (Chinese Civil War) 
1972 – Fire Base Bastogne falls (Vietnam War)

 M-107 firing, Battery C, 1st Battalion, 83d Field Artillery, at Fire Support Base Bastogne, Vietnam

1978 – Saur Revolution ends (Afghanistan)

Today in military history: April 27, 2014

1296 – Battle of Dunbar (also Spottismuir) (First War of Scottish Independence)

 About 1731 - "Portrait of John Balliol," mezzotint, by British printmaker William Robins.

  

1423 – Battle of Horic (Hussite Wars) 

1522 – Battle of Bicocca (Italian War of 1521-1526) 

1777 – Battle of Ridgefield (American Revolutionary War) 

1799 – Battle of Cassano (French Revolutionary Wars) 

1805 – US takes Derna (First Barbary War) 

1808 – Battle of Revolax (Finnish War) 

1813 – Battle of York (War of 1812)

 The death of American brigadier general Zebulon Pike at the Battle of York on 27 April 1813. This scene shown in this American print of 1839 bears little resemblance to the actual 1813 fortifications at York, while the town itself was actually out of sight further to the east.

1941 – Germans enter Athens (WWII) 

1943 – British take Djebel Bou Aoukaz (WWII) 

1945 – Allies take Prenzlau, Angermunde, Genoa, and Baguio (WWII)  

1947 – Battle of Tang’erli begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1975 – Saigon encircled (Vietnam War) 

1978 – Saur Revolution begins (Afghanistan)  

  Day after Saur revolution in Kabul

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