In memory of World war ╬

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Women of the Red Army liberated the concentration camp of Ravensbrück, located 90 km north of Berlin. Concentration camp was established in May 1939 for women prisoners and was one of the largest camps in Germany.

This photograph shows a group posing in front of a portrait of Adolf Hitler and two swastikas.

Soviet underground before his execution in Minsk. In the center - 16-year-old Maria Bruskin with plywood shield on the chest and the inscription in German and Russian: “We are guerrillas, firing on German troops.” Left - Cyril I. Coward, the working of the Minsk plant them. Myasnikov, right - 16-year-old Volodya Scherbatsevich.

Valentin Y. Orlikov (02.19.1915 - 31.01.1986) - first female captain of BMRT (large freezer trawler), the world’s only female captain of a whaling ship (“Storm”), a veteran of World War II, the first woman in the fishing industry in the country , awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor.During World War II went to the navigator on board the Navy. In August 1941 Valentine Orlikov participated in the evacuation of Tallinn six thousand wounded. From August 1942 to October 1944 worked as a Valentine Yakovlevna third mate on the ship ‘Dvina’.“Dvina” drove the Soviet raw materials in the United States in exchange for U.S. products to be supplied under the Lend-Lease. In the first flight, which began August 8, 1942, ship was carrying manganese ore.As the convoy of British ships detained, it was decided to send the “Dvina” alone, without accompaniment. Of all the weapons on board were two machine guns and 5 guns.In order for the ship did not seem quite helpless victim to the German ships and submarines, the captain decided to build a dummy naval guns made of wood, put on their covers and fasten to the false-guns calculations.

The girls celebrated the 2nd Guards Taman Division: Health workers, signalers, telephonists. Picture taken in the twentieth of May 1945 in Königsberg - here, by making a contribution to the capture of a German castle as a result of a bloody assault, Taman Division completed its participation in World War II.

Without the financial support of her father’s well-off Amy Johnson would not dream of flying come true. He paid for flying lessons and also participated in the financing of Amy’s first machine - a used de Havilland Gypsy Moth (G-AAAH), which they bought from an oil magnate. Amy also learned Flugzeugmechanikerin made the biplane with open cockpit fit again, he missed a green coat and appointed him as thanks to her father after the family business, a fish shop, “Jason”.

“Deep Happiness” satisfying reads on 30 Hanna Reitsch March 1941 in Berlin, the “Observer magazine,” a weekly magazine of the National Socialist Party, which tells of the honor of the pilot with the Iron Cross Second Class.Many people congratulated the pilot in the following days and weeks. “I found it a deep happiness that can mean only one who loves his people,” wrote Reitsch in her memoirs published in 1951.

$Hanna Reitsch was in Hitler’s hands not only the Iron Cross Second Class in addition to related certificate of honor (photo), but was honored in March 1943 for their courage with the Iron Cross First Class. The reason: In a test flight of the Messerschmitt ME-163 rocket fighter was the pilot crashed near Regensburg and had a quadruple skull fracture and a brain contusion and a nose suffered destruction.$

Hanna Reitsch (here in 1936 with the glider designer and aviation pioneer Hans Jacobs) should follow the wishes of the parents actually become a doctor and began in 1932 to study medicine. But just a year later she abandoned his studies again - her desire to fly was greater. “Flying I need to live like oxygen to breathe,” the pilot wrote in her memoirs.