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ww2db @ww2db.com · Jan 24

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out

Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

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Today in WW2 History, 15 Oct 1946: Two hours before his scheduled execution, Göring committed suicide ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=62

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Today in WW2 History, 15 Oct 1945: Pierre Laval was executed for treason ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=257

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Today in WW2 History, 15 Oct 1945: [Photo] Closure of Granada Relocation Center, Colorado, United States ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=13642

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Today in WW2 History, 15 Oct 1944: Miklós Horthy announced that Hungary and Soviet Union had signed an armistice. ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=303

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Today in WW2 History, 15 Oct 1944: [Photo] US 26th Infantry Regiment machine gun crew in Aachen, Germany ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=329

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Today in WW2 History, 15 Oct 1943: [Photo] US Navy WAVES personnel in flight simulation in chill chamber ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=4531

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Today in WW2 History, 15 Oct 1943: USS Tang was commissioned into service. ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=667

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Today in WW2 History, 15 Oct 1942: [Photo] USS North Carolina at US Territory of Hawaii at dusk ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=20118

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Today in WW2 History, 15 Oct 1941: German 1st Pzr Div turned NW, away from Moscow, to attack Soviet NW Front from rear. ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=37

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Today in WW2 History, 15 Oct 1938: The Czechoslovakian government resigned after Germany occupied the Sudetenland. ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=87

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Today in WW2 History, 15 Oct 1937: Soviet aircraft bombed Khotan, China, causing 2,000 Chinese mil and civ casualties ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=324

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Today in WW2 History, 15 Oct 1891: Tadashige Daigo, future admiral, was born ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=506

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1998: Betty Gillies, aviatrix, passed away ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=505

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1944: Erwin Rommel committed suicide with a cyanide capsule given by Wilhelm Burgdorf. ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=4

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1944: [Photo] A Japanese aircraft crashing near USS Princeton off Taiwan ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=1684

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1944: Soviet and Yugoslavian troops entered Belgrade. ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=302

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1943: [Photo] US Navy WAVES personnel in exercise in low pressure chamber ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=4521

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1943: [Photo] US Marine Private Harry Weber with pet fox at Quantico ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=22052

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1942: [Photo] USS Marblehead off New York, New York, United States ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=22551

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1943: US bombers attacked Schweinfurt ball bearing plants; 77 were shot down. ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/facility/Schweinfurt_Ball_Bearing_Factories/

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1942: Six Japanese destroyers landed 1,000 troops on Guadalcanal. ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=9

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1941: All surviving Soviet troops in the Bryansk pocket in Russia were captured. ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=37

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1940: Balham Tube Station in London hit by German bomb, killing 66. ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=95

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1939: German submarine U-47 sank HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Scotland. ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=291

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Today in WW2 History, 14 Oct 1937: [Photo] Japanese soldiers walking among Chinese refugees ##ww2 ##onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=13135