Winter 1945 The Hague, 7 May 1945. Amsterdam. April 22, 1915 Over 150 civilians died instantly. They had wanted the countries to be joined for a long time. The magazine had been around for some time, but from this point on, it was edited by the Jewish Council. By that time, Eichmann had been on the run for 15 years. The Hague. Signing of the Tripartite Pact.Berlin, September 27, 1940. On 5 March 1945, he went to Katowice, a nearby town. Nearly half a million Germans, in many cases women and children, died along the way. The Soviet Union was going to occupy Eastern Poland, the Baltic States and part of Finland. The streets were barricaded, to stop the tanks and soldiers from coming through. The German army was the first to use deadly poison gas on the Belgian battlefields. On 25 July 1943, Anne and the other people in hiding saw columns of smoke over the harbour'. Most of the 75,000 Jews deported from France to extermination camps had come from abroad. Still, the population had to learn what to do in case of an enemy attack with poison gas. Otto Frank (centre) with three fellow soldiers. Before long, their families were informed that they were 'dead' or had been 'shot on the run'. Only in the course of 1924 did a new government succeed in reducing inflation by introducing a new currency: the Rentenmark. Asperg, Germany. In the West German town of Burgsteinfurt, the British army forced the 4000 inhabitants to watch the film Atrocities: The Evidence. During the 16th General Assembly of the United Nations, the Charter is signed by 50 countries.Veterans' War Memorial Building, San Francisco, USA, June 26, 1945. This 'Vichy regime', named after the health resort where the government was based, collaborated with the Germans. Over 5,000 ships transported 150,000 allied soldiers and 1,500 tanks to the coast of Normandy in France. Burning houses in Veenendaal, 12-14 May 1940. Marinus van der Lubbe was unable to prove his innocence and was sentenced to death. He recalled many details about the arrest, but nothing about a traitor. Vienna. Thailand, 1942-1945. On 11 May 1960, Adolf Eichman was kidnapped in Buenos Aires by a unit of the Mossad (the Israeli secret service). Many of them were held without being charged. In Berlin, workers jointly stopped paying rent in protest against the high rents and the poor condition of their houses. In this underground shelter, he and the people around him had heard how the Soviet Union army was getting closer and closer. Based on family lineage, the laws determined who was Jewish and who was not. They were welcomed with cheers. The doctors involved sent questionnaires about patients health and capacity for work to institutions and nursing homes. Photo collection: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C, courtesy of Panstwowe Muzeum na Majdanku. Queen Juliana (on the right), Prince Bernhard, and Mayor d'Ailly have laid wreaths. The spokesperson did not clarify further what took place in the interim between the Sunday broadcast and the Thursday announcement. Somerville had initially sought to add a 46-second address to note disparities in media coverage of white and Black crime victims. However, the programme was continued in secret, and the murder centres were afterwards also used to kill prisoners. Hij wordt door Hitler, voor zijn zelfmoord, tot Rijkskanselier benoemd, maar al op 1 mei pleegt ook hij samen met zijn vrouw zelfmoord, nadat zij hun zes kinderen hebben omgebracht. Carl von Ossietzky, writer, pacifist, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize with a camp guard in Esterwegen concentration camp, October-November 1935. Photographer: Bob van Dam. Germany. The Hague, 29 May 1940. He was killed in the camp in September 1943. He was held captive for a longer period. The street lights had to be switched off as well. According to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was not allowed to station an army there. Meanwhile, the US continued to work on the construction of atomic bombs with even greater impact, and on 6 August 1945, an American bomber dropped the first atomic bomb in history. 25 March 1942: Jews and non-Jews are not allowed to marry. Aug. 28, 1939 On 22 April 1915, French troops saw a yellow-green cloud of chlorine gas coming towards them. Weakened by illness, she died there on 27 December 1944. The next day, he announced his identity. Then, they executed them on the edge of ravines or alongside the holes they had had to dig. David Ben-Gurion reads the Israeli Declaration of Independence at the Tel Aviv Museum. She then passed the microphone to her son-in-law, Prince Bernhard. First edition of "The Secret Annex", 1947. St. Paul's Cathedral during a bombardment. Cologne, 1 April 1933. Gerzon had branches in several Dutch cities. Pillau/Piawa (after 1945: Baltijsk), February 1945. March 10, 1933 May 7, 1945 On 4 May 1945, the German army in North-West Europe surrendered to the Allies, who were under the command of British General Montgomery. The security staff overpowered the suspected arsonist: Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe. In his speech, Seyss-Inquart warned the Dutch Jews and their helpers to remember that that would not be the end of it. Dear Abby: Am I overreacting to my European daughter-in-law's behavior? A day later, the Germans executed 263 political prisoners in retaliation. Only one other man was later admitted to the country. Opekta, the product, was used in jam-making. The film The diary of Anne Frank was released in 1959. Collection: delpher.nl. From 1923 to 1929, Otto and his brother Herbert and brother-in-law Erich Elias ran a bank branch in Amsterdam called M. Frank and Sons. Dec. 9, 1948 Utrecht, 12 April 1960. In the early 1920s, Germany was in a political and economic crisis. On 19 July 1943, she wrote: 'North Amsterdam was very heavily bombed on Sunday. All of a sudden, they heard the sound of shots being fired. The war was finally over. In 1939, Italy occupied Albania and in October 1940, it attacked Greece from there. Sections of the German army had already surrendered. On 17 September and the days after, thousands of British, Irish, American, and Polish soldiers with parachutes or glider planes landed near Eindhoven, Nijmegen, and Arnhem to take the bridges. The suspension was first reported by the San Jose Mercury News. Moreover, an economically healthy Europe was in the best interest of the US as well, as it formed a large potential market for American goods. The next day, there was no more fighting. After an attack on SS man Reinhard Heydrich in June 1942, the project was named after him: Aktion Reinhard. People were ill-treated, tortured, and sometimes even murdered. The Westerbork refugee camp under construction.Hooghalen, The Netherlands, 1939. In this treaty, the two countries agreed to support each other in the fight against communism. 9 August 1914. It was done in an impertinent and humiliating way. Hanns Albin Rauter, Polizeifhrer and General der Waffen-SS (centre), WA commander Zondervan, (left, wearing glasses) and Dutch SS officer Feldmeijer (right), at a Dutch SS meeting at The Hague Zoo. Bulgaria, 9-16 April 1941. Traders who still carried diamonds had to hand them over. Shortly before the 5 p.m. broadcast, Eikel told Somerville she planned to cut the tag after newsroom editors raised concerns. He did not tell her where he went, so she could not accidentally betray him. The Sliedrecht-Hardinxveld bus company was shut down because the owners were afraid that the windows would be smashed and the tires slashed. Their plan failed. Hitler commited suicide on 30 April 1945. Anne's wish came true on 25 June 1947 when her book was published: Het Achterhuis. Before the 6 p.m. broadcast, a producer, who was unfamiliar with the earlier discussions between Somerville and Eikel, noticed that a shortened tag had been added to the Petito update. In total, the Nazis murdered approximately 165,000 German Jews. The war lasted almost a year and was won by Israel. But from the autumn onwards, with the Soviets advancing, the prisoners had to walk long distances. Germany claimed Western Poland and part of Lithuania. By the end of 1942, almost 1.3 million Polish Jews had been murdered. In reality, the army command had made mistakes and the German army was in no shape to keep on fighting. They are obliged to watch the film: "Atrocities: the evidence", about the victims in the Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald concentration camps.Burgsteinfurt, May 30, 1945. Heinrich Himmler addresses the new Amsterdam Police Battalion. In order to fulfil their promise of peace, the communists had to stop fighting Germany. Queen Wilhelmina delivering a speech on Radio Oranje. They saw the enemy as the instigator of the conflict and so they considered their own reaction to be fair. Two Dutch police officers return a refugee to the German border near Zevenaar. 31 May 1941: Jews are not allowed on the beach, to parks, swimming pools, or hotels. They wanted to investigate the murder themselves, without interference from the Austro-Hungarian representatives. June 28, 1914 This way, they were able to isolate the Japanese units and cut them off from their supply lines, without losing much time or troops in combat. Students and Nazis with works of literature that are to be burned. On this large site, the prisoner barracks, other buildings, and ruins of the gas chambers still remain. 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They blew up the crematoriums and tore down the barracks. Anne Frank and her sister Margot visit Gabriele Kahn and her niece Ellen Weinberger. Edith, Margot, Anne, and Auguste stayed in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and ended up in a barracks for forced labourers. Camp Westerbork, 1942-1944. Mexico refused the request. Photo collection: USHMM, courtesy of ydowski Instytut Historyczny (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw). Vienna, March 1938. 1941-1945 They were trained in Trawniki and deployed from September 1941 onwards. Moreover, Germany had to donate large quantities of military equipment to the Allies. The other ministers came from other right-wing parties. Before long, stories and rumours about the abuse in the camps were spreading. Two soldiers lead a pair of horses with guns at the Grote Museum in the Artis zoo.Amsterdam, September 1939. But over time, the indignation diminished and the gap between Jews and non-Jews widened. Belgian, British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand troops fought the German army near the Belgian city of Ypres. Their murders are compiled and presented to the viewer as a statistic, dehumanizing the victim in the process. They had all been ordered to withdraw if foreign countries were to intervene. Somerville did reply to local media commentator Rich Lieberman on Monday saying he'd be back on the air that night and that the incident was simply a mistake regarding his prescription medication. The film The diary of Anne Frank was released in 1959. The Soviet Union regained hope, as did the people in the occupied territories. Amsterdam, 1942. For fear of the anger of the Dutch, the Germans had opened fire. The American population regarded the attack as a cowardly act and stood behind its government's decision to declare war on Japan. Allied officers pose in front of the train wagon in which the German delegate has just signed the armistice. The statue is located in the middle of the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, at Jonas Danil Meijerplein, where the first Dutch raids took place on 22 and 23 February 1941. Some joined the resistance and others fled to London. He no longer had to do heavy work, he was not mistreated, and he was protected from the cold. ', Feb. 13, 1945 Yad Vashem also honours those who saved or helped Jews during the Holocaust. In 1935, the Germans constructed a large military training area on the Lneburger Heide, near the city of Bergen. Glider planes and paratroopers on the ground. The Israeli ship the Negbah leaves Amsterdam. The ship is sunk by the Soviet army on April 8, 1945. Frank was later arrested by the Oakland Police Department for a DUI. Here they are killed or used as forced labourers. March 13, 1920 Frank Somerville is a contributor to SFGATE and anchors the 5, 6, and 10 p.m. news on KTVU. They hoped that the people and the army would join them. Up until then, German companies had been borrowing money from banks in the United States, and these loans had helped the German economy back on its feet. And I guess thats the issue, isnt it?. By early 1942, the Nazis had already murdered more than a million Jews. But the German defence line at the border with Belgium was too strong. Frank Somerville, Donna Wright Somerville and their two daughters Why was Frank Somerville taken off air? North of the Grebbeberg a large area has been flooded to stop the German army. Rauter, an Austrian Nazi, had been the highest-ranking SS officer in the Netherlands. Private collection. The Nazis wanted to further isolate the Jews from the non-Jewish Dutch. It is like a dream. Number of Jewish refugees from Germany (and the occupied territories) between 1933 and 1939. Somerville has not commented on the incident. Otto visited the film set, and Shelley Winters, who played Mrs Van Pels, noticed that it was hard for him to see the actors and the movie set in the style of the time in hiding. Photo collection: Bundesarchiv Bildarchiv. The purpose of the operation was to set up a landing base on the European mainland. On 22 October 1940, more than 6500 Jews from the federal states of Baden and Saarpfalz were assembled and deported to a camp in Gurs, in the south of France. Aug. 4, 1944 The attack was backed up by bombardments and paratroopers. Amsterdam, 1943-1945. Every year on the 25th of February, the February strike is commemorated in this square. Millions of people died of hunger or diseases, or were executed. Het Britse leger komt aan bij concentratiekamp Bergen-Belsen. The Netherlands. They were released when 200 people reported for work after a few days. Amsterdam, 1940-1945. In November 1943, Aktion Reinhard was terminated. At that moment, a meeting of Bavarian politicians was in progress. May 7, 1945 They were then transported to Camp Westerbork. 1942-1943. Amsterdam. Duivendrecht/ Amsterdam, 15 May 1940. Sept. 1, 1932 Air raid shelter on the Amsteldijk, Amsterdam, December 1939. Almost immediately, he travelled on to Amsterdam, where he showed up on the doorstep of helpers Jan and Miep Gies in the evening of 3 June. Winterswijk. As they used firebombs, the German population was not even safe in the air-raid shelters. He was in the Netherlands to prepare the deportations of Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp, which started in the summer of 1942. The law was the official confirmation of a situation that had existed for some time. Because the ground was frozen stiff, at first, there was little they could do. Fifteen people were acquitted. Amsterdam. This government committed terrible war crimes against Serbs, Jews, and Roma and Sinti. According to the newspaper, Somerville wanted to include a remark at the end of a news package that highlighted the medias disparity in covering young, white women like Petito while ignoring cases involving other missing individuals. After the trial against the leaders, twelve other trials followed, against doctors, army officers, judges, industrialists, members of the Einsatzgruppen, and others. After Von Stauffenberg had left, the bomb went off. Eighteen warships had been sunk and hundreds of aircraft had been destroyed or damaged. Hungarian Jews become herded into the Budapest City Theater (Vrosi Sznhz) for deportation to the death camps. Concentratiekamp Bergen-Belsen, 17 april 1945. She is a friend and fellow prisoner of concentration camp Bergen-Belsen and declared that Anne and Margot died in February-March of 1945 in Bergen-Belsen. Great Britain. 1923. They felt that motorways were a superfluous luxury - only for the amusement of the rich and of no use to the common people. He is due to appear Feb. 28. General Charles de Gaulle founded the Free French there, with the aim of fighting the German occupation of France. From 3:30 in the morning, loudspeaker cars were driving around, ordering the Jews to report at assembly points. Vienna, 15 March 1938. More than one in two captured Soviet soldiers died in German hands. After a month, he was sentenced to death, mainly because he had been in charge of the deportation of 110,000 Dutch Jews. Other Jewish organisations were forced to cooperate as well. She continued writing in this notebook when her red-checked diary was full. He was killed in the camp in September 1943. The term genocide was coined by Polish Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin. Frank Somervilles 31-year career at KTVU, where his nightly anchoring duties made him one of the Bay Areas most beloved TV news personalities, officially came to an end Friday, as his contract expired and the station opted to not bring him back.