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> He is known as the "Hero with no Glory" after saving the lives of two Dutch children, Jan and Toos Kilsdonk. They were innocently playing in their yard while the Allied Army was bombing of the area. This eighteen-year-old soldier dashed to their aide and carried the children to safety. The steel helmet on his head was unmistakable: the Wehrmacht, the notorious armed forces of Nazi Germany of World War II. When he ran after his retreating comrades, a grenade hit him under his arm; it was exactly where he had just been carrying the children. His body was instantly destroyed.
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=59864024
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>Continuing to act as a priest, Kolbe was subjected to violent harassment, including beating and lashings, and once had to be smuggled to a prison hospital by friendly inmates.[2][16] At the end of July 1941, three prisoners disappeared from the camp, prompting SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch, the deputy camp commander, to pick 10 men to be starved to death in an underground bunker to deter further escape attempts. When one of the selected men, Franciszek Gajowniczek, cried out, "My wife! My children!", Kolbe volunteered to take his place.[8]
>According to an eye witness, an assistant janitor at that time, in his prison cell, Kolbe led the prisoners in prayer to Our Lady. Each time the guards checked on him, he was standing or kneeling in the middle of the cell and looking calmly at those who entered. After two weeks of dehydration and starvation, only Kolbe remained alive. “The guards wanted the bunker emptied, so they gave Kolbe a lethal injection of carbolic acid. Kolbe is said to have raised his left arm and calmly waited for the deadly injection.[11] His remains were cremated on 15 August, the feast day of the Assumption of Mary.[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Kolbe
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>>3293147
>Hitler loved Christianity guys, he totally wasn't an atheist larping as a pagan
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>On November 12, 1944, Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld was commanding a beleaguered German rifle company. Like most units on both sides,
he had suffered heavy casualties. Early that morning, a wounded American could be heard calling from the middle of a German minefield
in a no man's land separating the combatants. "Help me" the man cried. His unit had withdrawn , however, and no U.S. troops were
close enough to hear. Lengfeld ordered his men not to shoot if Americans came to rescue the man. But none came. The soldier's
weakening voice was heard for hours. "Help me" he called, again and again. At about 10:30 that morning, Lengfeld could bear
the cries no longer. He formed a rescue squad, complete with Red Cross vests and flags, and led his men toward the wounded American.
>He never made it. Approaching the soldier, he stepped on a land mine, and the exploding metal fragments tore deeply into his body.
Eight hours later Lengfeld is dead. The fate of the American is unknown. Much of this story, unpublished in any American books
on the war, is based on the eyewitness account of Hubert Gees, who served as Lengfeld's communications runner.
Speaking at the monument's dedication in Germany last October, Gees said : " Lieutenant Lengfeld was one of the best soldiers
of the Hürtgen Forest. He was an exemplary company commander, who never asked us to do more than he himself was ready to give.
He possessed the complete confidence of his soldiers.
http://1-22infantry.org/history4/lengfeld.htm
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DO IT AGAIN
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>The members of White Rose put together, printed and distributed, at the risk of their lives, six leaflets in all. On 18 February 1943, the Scholls were distributing the sixth leaflet at the university when they were discovered by a custodian, who delivered them to the Gestapo.[2]
>On 22 February 1943, Christoph Probst and the Scholls were tried and sentenced together at the Volksgerichtshof by judge Roland Freisler, who was known for often determining sentences even before the trial, and all three were sentenced to death by guillotine. Their sentences were carried out on the very same day at Stadelheim Prison in Munich.[citation needed]
>Their grave may be found in the graveyard bordering the execution place, "Am Perlacher Forst".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Probst
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Guess we need some 'Muricans to balance things out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Doss
>While serving with his platoon in 1944 on Guam and the Philippines, he was awarded aBronze Star Medalfor aiding wounded soldiers under fire. During theBattle of Okinawa, he saved the lives of 75 wounded infantrymen[a]atop the area known by the96th Divisionas the Maeda Escarpment or Hacksaw Ridge.Doss was wounded four times in Okinawa, and was evacuated on May 21, 1945, aboard theUSSMercy.He was subsequently awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Okinawa on October 12, 1945.
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>>3293170
awesome guy.
>>3293173
>Forgot the picture.
Got it.
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>>3293173
Fuck, I forgot the picture again.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_L._Salomon
>In June 1944, Salomon saw his first combat — going ashore on Saipan with the 105th Infantry. With little dental work to do during active combat, Salomon volunteered to replace the 2nd Battalion's surgeon, who had been wounded. As the 2nd Battalion advanced, casualties were high. On July 7, Salomon's aid station was set up only 50yardsbehind the forwardfoxholeline. Fighting was heavy and a major Japanese assault soon overran the perimeter, then the aid station. Salomon was able to kill the enemy that entered the hospital tent and ordered the wounded to be evacuated, while he stayed to cover their withdrawal.[2]
>When an Army team returned to the site days later, Salomon's body was found slumped over a machine gun, with the bodies of 98 enemy troops piled up in front of his position. His body had 76 bullet wounds and many bayonet wounds, up to 24 of which may have been received while he was still alive.
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>>3293187
that's brutal...
>During the My Lai massacre, Thompson and his Hiller OH-23 Raven crew, Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn, stopped a number of killings by threatening and blocking officers and enlisted soldiers of Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division. Additionally, Thompson and his crew saved a number of Vietnamese civilians by personally escorting them away from advancing United States Army ground units and assuring their evacuation by air. Thompson reported the atrocities by radio several times while at Sơn Mỹ. Although these reports reached Task Force Barker operational headquarters, nothing was done to stop the massacre. After evacuating a child to a Quảng Ngãi hospital, Thompson angrily reported to his superiors at Task Force Barker headquarters that a massacre was occurring at Sơn Mỹ. Immediately following Thompson's report, Lieutenant Colonel Frank A. Barker ordered all ground units in Sơn Mỹ to cease search and destroy operations in the village.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Thompson_Jr.
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>>3293206
Why hasn't this man been given the Medal of Honor yet?
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>>3293170
>tfw your home is only known for particularly brutal pacific theater battles and modern nigger rape
Being Okinawan is hard sometimes.
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>>3293208
Possibly because of resentment, plus the MoH is only awarded for combat actions.
>In 1970, Thompson testified against those responsible for the My Lai Massacre. Twenty-six officers and enlisted soldiers, includingWilliam CalleyandErnest Medina, were charged with criminal offenses, but all were either acquitted or pardoned. Thompson was condemned and ostracized by many individuals in the United States military and government, as well as the public, for his role in the investigations and trials concerning the My Lai massacre. As a direct result of what he experienced, Thompson suffered fromposttraumatic stress disorder,alcoholism, divorce, and severenightmare disorder. Despite the adversity he faced, he remained in theUnited States Armyuntil November 1, 1983, and continued to make a living as a helicopter pilot in thesoutheastern United States.
However, the Army did honor him and his crew.
>In 1998, 30 years after the massacre, Thompson and the two other members of his crew, Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn, were awarded theSoldier's Medal(Andreotta posthumously), the United States Army's highest award for bravery not involving direct contact with the enemy.[1]Thompson and Colburn also returned toSơn Mỹin 1998, where the massacre took place, to meet with survivors of the massacre. In 1999, Thompson and Colburn received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award.
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>>3293206
Is there any American general who was sentenced for war crimes over Vietnam?
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>>3293224
I don't know about for the entirety of the conflict, but nobody served a day of jail time for My Lai.
>Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only LieutenantWilliam Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years underhouse arrest.
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>>3293222
>MoH is only awarded for combat actions
Not entirely true
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Medal_of_Honor_recipients_during_peacetime
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>>3293173
>>death by guillotine
>Jesus H. Christ.
You know that the French executed their last prisoner using a Guillotine in 1979 right?
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>>3293224
Col. Robert B. Rheault was court-martialled and thrown out of the Army for murdering a suspected North Vietnamese double agent. He later wound up being a major inspiration for the character of Col. William Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
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>>3293259
>Oh yeah. I find it weird that the guillotine stuck around as long as it did.
Efficient
Cheap
Painless
I can understand it.
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>>3293261
Well, theoretically painless. Some eyewitnesses described Marie Antoinette's head as making a pained/shocked grimace it was cut off. Probably just muscle spasms, but still.
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>>3293147
>Kolbe is said to have raised his left arm and calmly waited for the deadly injection.
>after two weeks of starvation and dehydration
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>>3293271
Fair enough, beter than the chair, gassing or poison though. I think the guillotine is more humane than the methods used by the USA today.
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>>3293282
well he was canonised by the Pope later and there's probably some legends to the story but what he did still makes him a hero.
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>>3293287
Eh, you could argue it's less humane than lethal injection.
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Incoming dump of all of REI's aphorisms treating heroism as of yet.
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>>3294741
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>>3293252
It's crazy. My parents remember the last execution by guillotine.
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>Guderian persuaded Hitler to make Wenck chief of staff of Army Group Vistula (with the power to launch the attack).[7] Wenck's attack was initially successful, but Hitler requested him to attend daily Fuehrer briefings which forced him to make a daily round trip of 200 miles. On February 14, 1945, an extremely tired Wenck took the driving wheel from his driver Dorn who had collapsed. Wenck then fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his car off the road. Saved by Dorn, he ended up in the hospital with a fractured skull and five broken ribs, while the attack failed.[8] From 1944 to 1945, Wenck was Chief of the Fuehrungsstabs, an office that replaced Quartermaster General I
>On 10 April 1945, Wenck was appointed commander of the German Twelfth Army located to the west of Berlin to guard against the advancing American and British forces. But, as the Western Front moved eastwards and the Eastern Front moved westwards, the German armies making up both fronts backed towards each other. As a result, the area of control of Wenck's army to his rear and east of the Elbe River had become a vast refugee camp for German civilians fleeing the path of the approaching Soviet forces. Wenck took great pains to provide food and lodging for these refugees. At one stage, the Twelfth Army was estimated to be feeding more than a quarter million people every day
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki
>Witold Pilecki (13 May 1901 – 25 May 1948) was a Polish cavalryman and intelligence officer. He served as a Rittmeister with the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War, Second Polish Republic and World War II. Pilecki was also a co-founder of the Secret Polish Army (Tajna Armia Polska) a resistance group in German-occupied Poland and was later a member of the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa). He was the author of Witold's Report, the first comprehensive Allied intelligence report on Auschwitz concentration camp and the Holocaust. He was a devout Catholic.
>During World War II, he volunteered for a Polish resistance operation that involved being imprisoned in the Auschwitz death camp in order to gather intelligence and later escape. While in the camp, Pilecki organized a resistance movement and, as early as 1941, informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz atrocities. He escaped from the camp in 1943 after nearly two and a half years of imprisonment. Pilecki took part as a combatant in the Warsaw Uprising[2] in August-October, 1944.[3] He remained loyal to the London-based Polish government-in-exile after the Soviet-backed communist takeover of Poland and was arrested for espionage in 1947 by the Stalinist secret police (Urząd Bezpieczeństwa) on charges of working for "foreign imperialism", thought to be a euphemism for British Intelligence.[4] He was executed after a show trial in 1948. Until 1989, information about his exploits and fate was suppressed by the Polish communist regime.[4][5]
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>>3294797
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>>3294795
must have been shit being a subordinate of Hitler...
the thing with the civilians is the kind of stuff I was looking for... I consider people who save lives far greater heroes than those who just kill many enemies.
>>3294796
awesome man, a disgrace what was done to him after the war
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>>3294808
thanks for the bumps I guess, but this >>3294837
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>>3294886
>I consider people who save lives far greater heroes than those who just kill many enemies.
Berlin was a lot like that, even SS commanders like Steiner saw little point in launching offensives and defied Hitler to hold corridors open for anyone running away from the Soviet advance
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>>3293252
And absolutely nothing of value was lost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamida_Djandoubi
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>>3294899
I notice you didn't screencap your post and post it as an image. Why?
Because that is what the comment section is for and links make it easier to post even bigger walls of text if necessary, I can post the full text of Mein Kampf here
https://archive.org/stream/meinkampf035176mbp/meinkampf035176mbp_djvu.txt
you think more, also seek mental healthcare because everything you posted was schizophrenic drivel
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>>3293208
>getting a medal of honor from the US army for exposing the US army as an army just as capable of cruel pointless barbarism as any supposedly savage commie force
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>>3293216
Hey you also got taco-rice, so it's not all bad.
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>>3293224
You think Americans would actually convict their own with the concept of command responsibility despite using it in war responsibility trials after WW2?
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>>3297597
two real heroes, didn't know about them, thanks for sharing!
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>>3293145
>innocently playing
this is what hedonists believe
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH
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>>3297652
nice guy, but how about you keep that
>G*rmans
shit at /int/ or /pol/?
Look at the first few posts in this thread ffs. Refer to them as Nazis, the German nation is far more than these faggots.
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