Fall of Austria: Soviet (Russians) in Vienna:WW2: 1945
This Russian officer seems to love the music of Beethoven
These Austrian women preferred to commit suicide then to fall into the hands of victors
Russian tanks trundle on the streets of Vienna
These guys are already fixing up dates with the Viennese women
After the second world war came to an end in 1945, Robert Farley and his crew of American military policemen (the 505 military police battalion) entered Vienna to resume order. He was part of the 4-nation patrol (one soldier from UK, France, Russia and the US rode jeeps around the city to maintain peace). Once " a Russian soldier took a liking to my date. He motioned for me to give my date over to him but I refused. Then he pulled out a pistol and waved it at me, but my answer was still 'Nyet.' Luckily, he walked away with a disgusted look on his face."Vienna burns
Top Russian officers converse
Symbolic!
Soviet troops swarm on the streets of Vienna
These guys take a photo-op
Vienna destroyed
Russian soldiers march on in Austria
These Austrians are doing the smart thing to do. Befriend the Russians.
These Russian soldiers are interested in the Austrian Fraulein
Dead on the streets
This Nazi poster is all that remains
Wrecks. Ruins.
Broken bridges
Some remnants of resistance from the Nazis?
The infamous Caucasian Soviet soldier
Berlin, after it fell to the Russians in 1945: WW2
The women of Berlin suffered most at the hands of the Soviet soldiers. But that is another story.
Dead German women lie on the street
In the Führer bunker, General Krebs and General Burgdorf had sat down side by side at some time in the early hours of that morning, drawn their Luger pistols and blown their brains out. Rochus Misch, probably the last member of the SS Leibstandarte to leave the building, saw them slumped together. After all the brandy they had consumed, they were fortunate not to have botched their suicide most painfully. Captain Schedle, the commander of the Leibstandarte guard in the Reich Chancellery, had also shot himself. Afoot wound had prevented him from getting away with the Bormann party.
Innocent civilians were caught in the cross-fire.
Of the previous night's fugitives from the Führer bunker, only the first group to leave hadstayed together. Led by Brigadeführer Mohnke, it included Hitler's personal pilot, Hans Baur, the chief of his bodyguard, Hans Rattenhuber, the secretaries and Hitler's dietician, Constanze Manzialy. In the early hours of 2 May, they had been forced to hide in a cellar off the Schönhauserallee when the area was swamped with Soviet troops. They remained concealed there until that afternoon, when finally discovered by Soviet troops. Resistance was pointless. The men were arrested immediately, but the women were allowed to go.Traudl Junge and Gerda Christian disguised themselves as men. But the striking Tyrolean Constanze Manzialy became separated from them almost immediately. One account claims that she was seized by a huge Russian infantryman and assaulted by him and his comrades. Nobody knows whether she resorted to the cyanide ampule which Hitler had presented in a brass container to each of his staff as going-away presents. In any case, shewas never seen again. Both Traudl Junge and Gerda Christian, despite alarming adventures, managed to reach the other side of the Elbe.
The Mongoloid Soviet soldiers were let loose on the German women
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION OF BERLIN (BBC)
The occupying troops celebrated, some indulging in the rape and murder of German citizens. When Stalin was told how some of the Red Army soldiers were treating German refugees, he is reported to say: 'We lecture our soldiers too much; let them have some initiative.'
"Vladlen Anchishkin, a Soviet battery commander on the 1st Ukrainian Front, sums up the horror of the whole event, when he tells how he took personal revenge on German soldiers: 'I can admit it now, I was in such a state, I was in such a frenzy. I said, 'Bring them here for an interrogation' and I had a knife, and I cut him. I cut a lot of them. I thought, 'You wanted to kill me, now it's your turn.'
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On 5 May, the corpses of Hitler and Eva Braun were finally found after more interrogations. It was a windy day with an overcast sky. A renewed and more thorough search of the Reich Chancellery garden was made. A soldier spotted the corner of a grey blanket in the earth at the bottom of a shell crater. Two charred corpses were exhumed.The bodies of a German shepherd dog and a puppy were found in the same pit. General Vadis was immediately informed.Before dawn the next morning, Captain Deryabin and a driver wrapped the corpses of Hitler and Eva Braun in sheets and smuggled them out past Berzarin's cordon. They drove them to the SMERSH base at Buch, on the north-east edge of Berlin. There, in a small brick clinic, Dr Faust, Colonel Kraevsky and other pathologists summoned to examine Goebbels's corpse began work on the most important remnants of the Third Reich.
The last of the bitter fighting on the streets of Berlin
The Russians picked over the city, exploring their new prize. The impotent and ruinous Reichstag building became the symbol of Russian victory. It had ceased to function as a democratic assembly soon after Hitler came to power. Marshal Zhukov added his signature to the other son the stonework of the interior. The journalist Konstantin Simonov wandered around the Tiergarten. He looked in at the Zoo to see the dead and emaciated animals lying beside the bodies of SS men. He went to the huge Anti-Aircraft Tower that had fought to the last. Inside there had been drunken orgies as the last act had been played out. There were the bodies of suicides everywhere. In one cubicle he found a dead SS general,his uniform tunic unbuttoned and a bottle of champagne between his legs. He had committed suicide with his mistress, who lay beside him in a pretty white blouse and skirt. He went on to the Reich Chancellery where agents of Soviet Military Intelligence, or Smersh, had already identified the bodies of Goebbels and his wife and children. Hitler and Eva Braun eluded them for the time being.
After The Reich by Giles Macdonogh
To show who are the new masters
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Egypt's Valley of the Kings
- 18th Century: Several historians believe the first man to reach Valley of the King is Frederic Louis Norden. Norden is a Danish adventurer and artist. Richard Pococke followed Norden’s expedition. Pococke is the man responsible for the publication of the first map in 1743. The maps and plans made better during the French Expedition. Napoleon sketched Western Valley. After some time, Description de l’ Egypte and it illustrates the area around Thebes. The book includes two volumes.
- 19th Century: The great Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovered numerous tombs in the valley, particularly the Ay and Seti. John Gardiner Wilkinson is the man responsible assigned to paint the tombs in 1827. Each tomb is numbered from KV1 to KV21. After the publication of The Topography of Thebes and General Survey of Egypt, James Burton explored the valley and go into KV5. Burton is a British Egyptologist.
- 20th Century: American Team led by Theodore M. Davis discovered royal and non-royal tombs namely KV43, KV46 and KV57. Davis comes up with a publication entitled “The Tombs of Harmhabi and Touatankhamanou.” The tem behind Theban Mapping Project considers tomb KV5 the largest in the valley.
- 21st Century: It’s in February 2006 when Supreme Council of Antiquities declares the first uncovered pharaonic-era tomb known as KV63. The KV63 Tomb is a single chamber with 7 sarcophagi and 20 large funerary jars. Nicholas Reeves has analyzed the tomb’s ground penetrating radar in July 2006 followed by Zahi Hawass’ discovery of Ramesses VIII in May 2008.
- The acronym KV stands for Kings’ Valley and based on the record made by John Gardner Wilkinson, there are 21 tombs in all- about 60 in East Valley and 5 in West Valley.
- Most of the tombs are not open for public viewing but numerous officials close open it for restoration work.
- When you visit Valley of the Kings, photography is not allowed inside.
- Usual tomb consists of long inclined rock corridor and descends through halls to the burial chamber.
- Want adventure? Think about hiking over the surrounding hills to Deir el-Medina or Deir el-Bahari and witness the spectacular view of the Nile Valley.
Test Your Fruit 'n' Vegetable Rainbow IQ! By Valerie Watson
We used to think a healthy diet was all about the “Big Three” food groups: protein, carbohydrates, and fats. Today, we know there are a lot more factors involved—one of the most important being color. Making sure you get a rainbow’s worth of colors in the fruits and vegetables you eat can make a world of difference in your health, vitality, and immune system. Match the colors of fruits and vegetables below with the selected beneficial nutrient or nutrients contained in that color group.
- Red (tomatoes, watermelon, pink grapefruit): Lycopene To help protect against cancer, heart disease, and neurological diseases.
- Orange/yellow (carrots, cantaloupe, peaches): Carotenoids. To help fight cancer, slow aging, and keep eyes healthy.
- Green (peas, spinach, asparagus): Chlorophyll and/or lutein. To help prevent cancer and heart disease and keep bones, teeth, and the immune system strong.
- Blue/purple (blueberries, eggplant, figs): Anthocyanins and flavonoids. To help fight cancer, memory loss, and strokes, and boost urinary tract and immune system health.
- White (bananas, cauliflower, potatoes): Anthoxanthins and/or potassium. To help lower blood pressure and cholesterol and reduce the risk of stomach cancer and heart disease.
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