The armies of Germany & Italy invading Yugoslavia set up the independent state of Croatia on April 10, 1941. National leader, Ante Pavelic,was put in control a pro-Axis regime in the new state. More than 350,000 Serbs, Jews, Gypsies & anti-fascist Croatians would be massacred at the hands of the pro-Axis regime.
ca. 390 CE Oldest Hebrew inscription from the Iberian Peninsula, and the only Jewish relic made in a Roman villa found. Finding romanized Lusitanians in this rural area was a surprise, especially living with Jews. The name Yehiel can be read, the rest is illegible as the marble carving is crude probably because Jews usually wrote in Latin in the Christian Roman Empire. Jews had been living in the area since at least 300 AD when rules of conduct between Jews and Christians were issued. Portugal.
Japanese soldiers execute captured Chinese soldiers with bayonets in a trench as other Japanese soldiers watch from rim. (LOC) #
A Japanese headsman tells a Chinese prisoner how to hold his head for a smooth decapitation in a photo dated from 1938.
At the Reichstag, evidence of a practice common throughout the centuries: soldiers scrawling graffiti to honor fallen comrades, insult the vanquished or simply announce, I was here. I survived. Berlin, 1945.
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