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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: . PIERRE CAZIOT - Minister of Agriculture and Supplies ADMIRAL FRANCOIS DARLAN - Minister of the Navy (covered, impossible to identify) RAPHAËL ALIBERT - Minister of Justice PIERRE LAVAL - Prime Minister ADRIEN MARQUET - Intendant of Bordeaux YVES BOUTHILLER - Minister of the Economy MARSHAL PHILIPPE PÉTAIN - Head of State ÉMILE MIREAUX - Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts GENERAL MAXIME WEYGAND - Minister of Defense JEAN YBARNÉGARAY - Minister of State HENRI LÉMERY - Minister of the Colonies FRANCOIS PIÉTRI - Ambassador to Spain GENERAL LOUIS COLSON - Minister of War
After World War I, the Iwami was part of the Japanese intervention in Siberia during the Russian Civil War.
The Iwami's end came in July 1924 when it was designated as a target during Japanese naval air exercises in Tokyo Bay.
Sodem was the commander of the main battery at the Norwegian fortress of Oscarsborg in the Oslofjord at the time of the German invasion on April 9, 1940. The battery under his command opened fire and managed to sink the German heavy cruiser Blücher, delaying the German attack on Oslo by several hours.
❝ I have demanded perseverance far exceeding the limits of man’s endurance of my Officers and men, who were exhausted and emaciated as a result of successive campaigns and for want of supplies. However my Officers and men all followed my orders in silence, without grumbling, and when exhausted they succumbed to death just like flowers falling in the winds.
God knows how I felt when I saw them dying, my bosom being filled with pity for them, though it was solely to their country that they dedicated their lives. At that time I made up my mind not to set foot on my country’s soil again but to remain as a clod of dirt in the Southern Seas with the 100,000 Officers and men, even if a time should come when I would be able to return to my country in triumph ❞
During the evacuation of Russian towns and villages, destruction and acts of vandalism are being carried out by German soldiers on Hitler's orders. The aim is to exploit the population and forcibly relocate them to Germany, with SS units and special commandos particularly distinguishing themselves.
As patriotic German men, we say to you:
It is now clear to everyone that Hitler's war is over.
Therefore, the destruction can no longer be justified militarily. It serves only one purpose: to increase the power of the Russian people.
What does Hitler intend with these orders?
Nothing other than to turn the majority of the invaded peoples against him, against our Wehrmacht and against our people, to make them guilty, and to make peaceful reconciliation increasingly impossible.
The guilty parties will be held accountable. Anyone who does not wish to be complicit and spare our people shame should refuse to carry out these criminal orders.
We expect such support today from every single member of the armed forces, whether general or private, if they hold the honor and blessing of their homeland dear.
On the day Hitler's power collapses, only he and his henchmen, not our German people, should stand as defendants before the tribunal of history.
Anyone who does not prevent the execution of such orders by Adolf Hitler is acting as a foreigner of the German nation!
-LEAGUE OF GERMAN OFFICERS-
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