Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945. http://t.co/aqtpAyoUG2—
ClassicPics (@History_Pics) June 19, 2015
Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: atomic bombings, Japan, Nagasaki, World War II
Squeamishness kills alert: were the atomic bombings unnecessary? Would have Japan surrendered anyway?
06 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: atomic bombings, Hiroshima, Japan
https://twitter.com/makingdayscount/status/629162313879154688
8.15 am, 6 August 1945 bit.ly/1IrpJoA
#Hiroshima http://t.co/rtP26Q3qHm—
The Conversation (@ConversationUK) August 06, 2015#ThisDayInHistory 1945 – Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima killing at least 129,000 people. http://t.co/4LmdcoJ034—
Paul Henry (@PaulHenryShow) August 06, 2015https://twitter.com/historyfacts247/status/629304405024763904
The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima on this day 70 years ago. nyti.ms/1MPqwTn http://t.co/GAiWFzQcvV—
NYT Archives (@NYTArchives) August 06, 2015How The Japan Times reported the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki jtim.es/QvTPC http://t.co/xYwL62C16Z—
The Japan Times (@japantimes) August 06, 2015
Those that argue that Japan surrendered for reasons other than the atomic bomb put forward contradictory arguments.
The first is the Japan was already seeking terms for surrender. That is true, but among those terms was avoiding occupation.
The Japanese leadership had already interpreted the terms of the Potsdam declaration was a sign of weakness. They hoped that by making the invasion of Japan as bloody as possible, they could extract even better terms in light of this sign of weakness at Potsdam. Kyushu, the obvious initial invasion site in southern Japan, was being heavily reinforced by the middle of 1945.
Japan no longer had a realistic prospect of winning the war by the end of 1994 and they knew it.
Japan’s leaders believed they could make the cost of conquering Japan too high for the Allies to accept, leading to some sort of armistice rather than total defeat. The Japanese…
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How The Japan Times reported the atomic bombings
06 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
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How The Japan Times reported the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki jtim.es/QvTPC http://t.co/xYwL62C16Z—
The Japan Times (@japantimes) August 06, 2015
via How The Japan Times reported the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | The Japan Times.
Jewish survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, some still in their camp clothing on the deck of the refugee ship Mataroa, July 15, 1945, Haifa port
15 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: Israel, The Holocaust
The track record of the United Nations Human Rights Council
13 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, Left-wing hypocrisy, United Nations
Colonel Bird, Commandant of Belsen Camp, gave the order for the last hut at Belsen Concentration Camp to be burned this day 1945
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Lt. Col. Ed Seiller speaks to 200 German civilians forced to see the Landsberg concentration camp, this day 1945
15 May 2015 Leave a comment
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via theatlantic.com
Is Marxism hate speech? Is it safe to be allowed on campus?
13 May 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: campus speech codes, hate speech, Leftover Left, Marxism, trigger warnings
US troops liberate Dachau death camp today 1945
30 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
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#Masakra w #Dachau – żołnierze #USArmy zamordowali 560 #SS-manów po wyzwoleniu obozu. Czytaj: paranormalne.pl/topic/40026-ze… http://t.co/RyzRFOZ0Jl—
Paranormalne.pl (@paranormalnepl) April 20, 2015
On this day 1945… #Dachau #Liberation http://t.co/aTcKAjix4n—
Heather Ann Searfoss (@searfoss70) April 29, 2015
#NeverForget 29/04/1945: Liberation of #Dachau Death camp – hmd.org.uk/content/290419… – #NeverAgain http://t.co/evZB6Hdy9J—
פטריק פולוק (@redbrasco) April 29, 2015
Most accurate attack ad ever from 1933
29 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
Prescient 1932 Hindenburg campaign poster showing Commies as Moscow stooges & Nazis as aspiring mass murderers. Yup. http://t.co/5IIYsaYwDy—
Mark Tooley (@markdtooley) April 28, 2015
What victory at Gallipoli could have stopped
25 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: Anzac Day, Armenian genocide, Gallipoli campaign, Ottoman Empire, war crimes, World War I
On May 24, 1915, the Allied Powers jointly issued a statement explicitly charging for the first time ever another government of committing `a crime against humanity’.
Today is marked by Armenians worldwide as the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. vox.com/2015/4/22/8465… http://t.co/7pqqSowW3O—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) April 24, 2015
The Allied Governments announce publicly that they will hold personally responsible all members of the Ottoman Government, as well as those of their agents who are implicated in the Armenian massacres.
Article 230 of the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres required the defeated Ottoman Empire to
…hand over to the Allied Powers the persons whose surrender may be required by the latter as being responsible for the massacres committed during the continuance of the state of war on territory which formed part of the Ottoman Empire on August 1, 1914.
Ottoman military and high-ranking politicians were transferred to the Crown Colony of Malta on board of the SS Princess Ena and the SS HMS Benbow by the British forces, starting in 1919. These war criminals were eventually returned to Constantinople in 1921 in exchange for 22 British hostages held by the government in Ankara.
But for victory at Gallipoli, the Anzacs would have been the first Sergeant at Arms of a war crimes trial. By marching into Constantinople, the Anzacs may have been able to prevent the purging of the Ottoman archives of evidence of complicity of specific individuals.
#GallipoliFlashback: Real time sequence of events during the first day of the Anzac landing nzh.nu/M2jbf http://t.co/8Em54XZxtH—
(@nzherald) April 24, 2015
via 40 maps that explain World War I | vox.com and 1915 – Allies Condemn Turkish Genocide of Armenians – Joint declaration Condemning Turkish Genocide of Armenians as Crimes Against Humanity.
Warsaw Jewish Ghetto uprising, today 1943
19 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, Poland, The Holocaust, war crimes, Warsaw Ghetto, World War II
Sinclair Davidson today not only reminded of the Warsaw Jewish ghetto uprising this day 1943, but also that the little boy in the famous photo below lived a long life. The ghetto fighters held out for more than a month. The uprising was three days before the planned liquidation of the ghetto.
PHOTO OF THE DAY: A young Jewish boy holds up his hands to SS officers at end of the Warsaw ghetto uprising (1943). http://t.co/nrPBYNGw1D—
Prof.Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) January 20, 2015
The German soldier pointing the gun at him is executed for war crimes in 1969.
19th of April – 72 anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising http://t.co/RQkDfL5y5Z—
MalgorzataKalinowska (@emaginal) April 18, 2015
Source: The ‘Warsaw Ghetto Boy’.
This Day 1945, British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
On this Day – 1945, British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Celle in northern Germany. http://t.co/TAGVMudUhm—
Roger Moorhouse (@Roger_Moorhouse) April 15, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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