WORLD HISTORY AND LOCAL GIST

Emotionally Dead has to be the Worst Death!  Bone Pointing ...  A strange method of execution used by Aborigines. Supposedly the practice never fails to kill despite the fact that the victim is never physically harmed. The practice leaves no trace whatsoever on the condemned. This practice is carried out by a Kurdaitcha, or a ritual executioner. The name Kurdaitcha comes from the slippers that the Kurdaitcha wear. These slippers, made of cockatoo or emu feathers and human hair are completely silent when the user walks in them. The Kurdaitcha will use this silence to quickly hunt down the person to be killed if the person has fled. Once the person is caught the Kurdaitcha will go down onto one knee and point the kundela, or killing bone (which will have been charged with a psychic energy in a previous ritual), at the condemned.  At this point the victim is said to be completely frozen in fear. The Kurdaitcha will then chant a curse. Afterwards the Kurdaitcha and fellow hun...

  We immediately started to protest. We said we were forced to, that they couldn't do this to us, they didn't have the right to  Doing it, it was against the Geneva Convention, and we never would. But they laughed at us, you know, they just laughed. They said they could do with us what they wanted. " One of the most heinous  war crimes committed by the Japanese Imperial Army in Southeast Asia during World War II was the ruthless sexual exploitation of 200,000 Asian women (Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Filipino, Korean and even Japanese) and 200  -300 Dutch and 30 Australian women. During the war the imperial army, worried about the spread of venereal diseases, decided to open a chain of brothels in all the conquered territories in order to avoid this problem (this was an example of what had happened in India in the nineteenth century where the  he British army had opened brothels which had had to close following outcry at home causing a great spread of ...

  WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS AHEAD A Python swallowed a beautiful new born baby and claimed the life of her mother the same day the baby was born.  Tears flow like rivers of water yesterday as the most horrible thing happened in Otitiri community, a Python swallow a new born baby the day she was born. It was reported by Local Undiluted Daily News, the baby was born 12: 23 am on Monday, 2026, while the mother was being taken care of in the bathroom the baby was left alone on the bed in the room. While in the bathroom according to the mother she heard a sound making her to quickly rushed to the room, but it was so unfortunate that on getting there the Python have already swallowed the baby. She scream so loud which drew the attention of her neighborhood who killed the snake and remove the death baby from the snake. The whole community casted the blame on the mother for living the baby alone not in the hand of anyone to take care of as she went to take her bathe, this sad incident ca...

  “More of our men died—so fast that you couldn’t keep track of their numbers,” wrote Tony Acevedo, an American soldier fighting in World War II. “We kept on marching." On this day in 1945, Tony and members of the US Army’s 275th Infantry Regiment were captured by the Germans and held prisoner for 15 weeks. Much of what we know about their experiences is due to a diary Tony secretly kept while in captivity.  A Mexican American who had faced discrimination because of his heritage, Tony nonetheless enlisted at age 17 with his father’s permission after the US government called for volunteers. He became a medic.  After only a few weeks in combat, Tony and the men of his company were forced to surrender to the Germans when they ran out of ammunition and food during the Battle of the Bulge. They faced physical and emotional abuse at the hands of their German captors. Tony was tortured and sexually assaulted.  The soldiers were fed starvation rations and forced to wo...

  Combat stress reaction is an acute reaction that includes a range of behaviors resulting from the stress of battle that decrease the combatant's fighting efficiency.  In World War I, shell shock was considered a psychiatric illness resulting from injury to the nerves during combat. The nature of trench warfare meant that about 10% of the fighting soldiers were killed (compared to 4.5% during World War II) and the total proportion of troops who became casualties (killed or wounded) was about 57%. Whether a person with shell-shock was considered "wounded" or "sick" depended on the circumstances. Soldiers were personally faulted for their mental breakdown rather than their war experience. The large proportion of World War I veterans in the European population meant that the symptoms were common to the culture. In World War II it was determined by the US Army that the time it took for a soldier to experience combat fatigue while fighting on the front lines was...

  He was brought to the place of execution along with 10 other prisoners, five men and five women.  The convicts were on the backs of 11 trucks, bound hand and foot. Pauls was collared with a noose at the center of the central gallows and pushed out of the truck. On one side of him, Gerda Steinhoff, on his other side, an unknown Kapo. It is generally believed that the execution was filmed. Above: on one end of the gallows row, the truck has just pulled away from Jenny Wanda Barkmann — a modish Hamburg lass in her mid-20’s known to Stutthof prisoners as “the Beautiful Specter” for her cruelty. Down the row, one can see that some of the prisoners are already swinging, while others have not yet been dropped. Upon hearing her sentence, Jenny Barkmann retorted, “Life is indeed a pleasure, and pleasures are usually short.” (More about Barkmann, including trial photos, here.) In this closer view of her, just as in the first photo, she is still alive and struggling. Next to her, Ewa P...