Berthe Mayer was born #OnThisDay in 1913. During the #SecondWorldWar she was a radio operator for #SOE, and provided Allied forces with intelligence about Vichy forces on #Madagascar.
Reinhard #Heydrich, one of the architects of the #holocaust, died #OnThisDay in 1942, from wounds inflicted by Czech SOE agents during an ambush some days earlier.
@CitizenWald@histodons@worldwarshistory It should take less than 5 seconds of introspection to realize what a fucked up and intentionally hateful, bigoted gesture this is. The fact that these protesters couldn't even muster that much effort speaks volumes about how rotten parts of this movement are.
Rereading Gildea’s instant classic for my class on wartime collaboration and resistance, and being reminded that, in France alone, there were over 40-million variations on the theme at any given point in time.
#OnThisDay in 1942, the Allies began Operation Streamline Jane, to capture the rest of #Madagascar. Streamline Jane consisted of three linked operations, codenamed Stream, Line, and Jane.
The initial landings for all three operations were very successful. But Vichy resistance was stubborn, and it was November before the island was completely under Allied control.
Agree. We hear, in some circles, the notion that discussions of past injustice are divisive or that they foist guilt unfairly onto the living.
I see it differently. What's divisive, I'd say, are the blockades that these people erect to prevent more conversation/contemplation.
Nor do I buy arguments about collective guilt. Engaging w historical injustice is abt weighing responsibilities of citizenship, not villifying the perps or their descendants.
The latest episode of the #WW2 Podcast covers Patton in France, August-December 1944.
The start is particularly interesting, as Kevin Hymel talks about how the 1953 transcription of Patton's diaries diverged hugely from what Patton actually wrote.