Tag: Poland

• The Neuhammer Stuka Disaster, August 15, 1939.

  

  Image: Junkers Ju87 B-1, the variant involved in the Neuhammer accident and the primary equipment of Stuka units for the first year of the war. August 15, 1939. The Junkers 87 Stukas of I/StG 76 were briefed to put on a dive bombing demonstration for a group of generals near Neuhammer in present-day Świętoszów, Poland,.…

  August 15, 2024

  1930s, Death, German Luftwaffe, History Daily, Junkers Ju87 B-1, Neuhammer Stuka Disaster, Poland, Stuka, Walter Sigel

  1930s, Death, German Luftwaffe, History Daily, Junkers Ju87 B-1, Neuhammer Stuka Disaster, Poland, Stuka, Walter Sigel

• The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ended as Nazi soldiers gained control over Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto. May 16, 1943.

  May 16, 2024

  1940s, History Daily, Jews, Nazi, Poland, Treblinka concentration camp, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, World War II

  1940s, History Daily, Jews, Nazi, Poland, Treblinka concentration camp, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, World War II

• History Daily: August 28

  EMMETT TILL IS MURDERED Image: Emmett Till (Wikimedia Commons) On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American boy from Chicago, is viciously murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His murderers—the white woman’s husband and his brother—made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton gin…

  August 28, 2023

  1800s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Adolf Hitler, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Emmett Till, event & history, History Daily, Lynching, Poland, Trains, World War II

  1800s, 1930s, 1950s, Adolf Hitler, Civil Rights Movement, Emmett Till, History Daily, Lynching, Poland, Trains, World War II