MCMXLV - 1945 June 28th
Victorian Times
TWENTY - FIVE CENTS
EXECUTION
Violette Szabo executed after being found as a british spy and a member of the SOE (Special Operations Executive). CONTINUED ON P2 >>
JEWS
2,000 Jews found hiding in Mary’s Hospital, on their way to Sweden. 1,978 were arrested, rest have escaped.
SCISSORS BEAT PAPER Vitória Carneiro Zhu
World War II has ended (May 1945) a month ago. After 5 long years of this war(starting in 1939 till just around 31 days ago) everyone has freedom. Jewish people have been liberated. The victors are the Allied Forces(UK, USA, Soviets, etc.) against the powerful German LeaderThe Führer, Adolf Hitler and the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan, etc.). The war was what Hitler thought ‘necessary’. He wanted The German Empire to expand and for the german people to be wealthier, more successful, so he began the war. It started with an attack on Poland.; the story is as follows: Hitler believed that Germany could attack Poland without being interrupted by Soviets or the British, so he gave orders for the invasion. It started on the 26th of Aug. News that Great Britain had formed an alliance with Poland on Aug. the 25th caused Hitler to postpone the attack, though he was still determined to ignore the efforts of the western
powers that were trying to keep him from invading Poland. Finally, Hitler ordered an attack against Poland, at 12:40 PM on Aug. 31st, 1939, he ordered them to invade Poland at 4:45 am early next morning. And so the invasion began. Responsively, Britain and France declared war. It was to be on Sept. 3rd, at 11:00 AM and at 5:00 PM. World War II began. And now it’s all over. Most people wonder if there will be another deadly war. Just after 20 years, the Second World War followed the first great global conflict. WW2 is the deadliest war in history, involving countries worldwide. It included more than 30 countries, and ended with more than 60 million military & civilian deaths. Some even say as high as 85 million deaths. One and a half million Jewish children died in Hitler’s genocide, which he called ‘The Final Solution’. In fact, the camps were sometimes made to murder the people he didn’t want on the face of the earth.
Renee Tully, a survivor from the Auschwitz Camp commented: “They shaved of our hair, we had to take off all our clothes, and they told us to take as many bricks as we could and carry them over there. So we did that, day in day out. When we finished, they simply said,’Now take them back’. It was very cruel. The food tasted horrible” The war is over, and freedom is for everyone, the Jewish people finally have the their rights. Many lives have been lost, so cross your fingers and hope there will be no more wars like this one.
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GESTAPO
Odette responded to the Gestapo officers: “ Gentleman, you must take your picks of counts. I can only die once”, after being sentenced to death for being a British spy and of being a member of the French Resistance. She lied for her friends sakeincredible story of the war. -Jerry Sansom