Operation Valkyrie was the plan by German Count Claus von Stauffenberg and other senior German generals in the Wehrmacht to assassinate Adolf Hitler and several other high ranking Nazis in an attempt to end the war in Europe. It failed. Stauffenberg planted a bomb concealed in a briefcase under the conference table in Hitler’s Wolf’s More »
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On This Day in 1944, 800 Gypsy Children Are Gassed At Auschwitz
During the Holocaust, it wasn’t just the Jews who suffered at the hands at the Nazis although they bore the brunt of the racism and extermination at the hands of the Germans and their allies during World War II. The Gypsies were also persecuted during the reign of Hitler and his henchmen. The Nazis at More »
Jagdkommando
Jagdkommando The Jagdkommando is the Special Operations Unit of the Austrian Armed Forces stationed in the town of Wiener Neustadt. The unit’s main missions include: SR-Special Reconnaissance DA-Direct Action MA-Military Assistance History The name “Jagdkommando” has its origins in the time of WW1, when small assault squads of the Austrian K.u.K. Army were called what More »