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May 26, 1972
The President of the United States Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement, commonly named SALT1 .
I was ten and, as a lot of people, i naively believed that it was made for peace. Since the time, i've understood that it was made only for saving money. Fairy tales do not fit well with realpolitik...
The President of the United States Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement, commonly named SALT1 .
I was ten and, as a lot of people, i naively believed that it was made for peace. Since the time, i've understood that it was made only for saving money. Fairy tales do not fit well with realpolitik...
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May 27, 1940
During the Battle of Dunkirk, 97 British soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, isolated from their regiment and who surrendered after running out of ammunition, are cold-bloodedly executed by Waffen SS from the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein, in the village of Le Paradis , nearby Lestrem, Northern France.
Two British soldiers, Albert Pooley and William O'Callaghan, altough seriously wounded, survived and managed to hide themselves until they get captured by conventional German forces from the Wehrmacht.
After the war, Fritz Knöchlein will be located and arrested. At his trial, the two British survivors will testifie against him. Convicted of war crime, Fritz Knöchlein will be sentenced to death by hanging. This will be carried out on January 28, 1949, in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany.
During the Battle of Dunkirk, 97 British soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, isolated from their regiment and who surrendered after running out of ammunition, are cold-bloodedly executed by Waffen SS from the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein, in the village of Le Paradis , nearby Lestrem, Northern France.
Two British soldiers, Albert Pooley and William O'Callaghan, altough seriously wounded, survived and managed to hide themselves until they get captured by conventional German forces from the Wehrmacht.
After the war, Fritz Knöchlein will be located and arrested. At his trial, the two British survivors will testifie against him. Convicted of war crime, Fritz Knöchlein will be sentenced to death by hanging. This will be carried out on January 28, 1949, in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany.
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