środa, października 29, 2008
In Hitler Moves East, former SS officer Paul Carell records a bizarre scene from the bitterly cold winter of 1941 on the eastern front. At Ozarovo a rearguard of the German 3rd Rifle Regiment came across a group of Russian troops standing motionless in waist-deep snow. On investigating, they found that the Soviets, horses and men, had frozen to death where they stood:
Over on one side was a soldier, leaning against the flank of his horse. Next to him a wounded man in the saddle, one leg in a splint, his eyes wide open under iced-up eyebrows, his right hand still gripping the dishevelled mane of his mount. The second lieutenant and the sergeant slumped forward in their saddles, their clenched fists still gripping their reins. Wedged in between two horses were three soldiers: evidently they had tried to keep warm against the animals' bodies. The horses themselves were like the horses on the plinths of equestrian statues — heads held high, eyes closed, their skin covered with ice, their tails whipped by the wind, but frozen into immobility.
Lance Corporal Tietz couldn't take photos because "the view-finder froze over with his tears" and the shutter refused to work. "The god of war was holding his hand over the infernal picture," Carell writes. "It was not to become a memento for others."
undedo at 00:55
wtorek, października 28, 2008
Por lo visto no naci en un buen dia.
1268 - Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.
1390 - First trial for witchcraft in Paris.
1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1665 - Battle of Ambuila, where Portuguese forces defeated the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king Antonio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga..
1859 - Spain declares war on Morocco.
1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1901 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1913 - Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.
1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday," ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1941 - Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
1948 - Safsaf massacre
1956 - Suez Crisis begins: Israel forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1998 - Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.
1998 - The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden claims 63 lives and injures 200.
1999 - A large cyclone devastates Orissa, India.
2002 - Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
2005 - 28 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.undedo at 23:16
Today.. bis
Al menos no esta tan mal mi vida.
Today in 1942, a 2-man german patrol is walking through a farm near Novgorod after it was shelled, looking for russian resistance fighters. The pair has been on constant recon duty for the last 30 hours, and are becoming extremely on-edge from the lack of sleep and the constant threat of russian suprise attacks in this frozen wasteland. they happen across a small shack with 2 dead horses, 1 dead cow, and 1 unidentifiable mass that looks like it took a near-direct hit from an 88MM shell lying amongst the craters. thinking the tiny cottage a likely place for a resistance cell, they investigate. there on the dirt floor they find a man and his wife huddled together. Emaciated and hypothermic, with naught but a large canvas sack keeping them from the russian winter, they are nearing death. the patrolmen remain on edge with guns drawn, expecting an ambush. slowly the russian man notices the intruders and, recognizing their uniforms, leaps to his feet and begins to assualt one of the soldiers. he works his frail arms with the last of his strength as his shrunken fists glance off the soldier's frame, as he shouts all the while in russian that the twisted blob outside is their 7-year old son, who was reduced to red mist and fragmented chunks before their eyes as they all dove for cover in the shelling. the soldier is filled with a mixture of pity and revulsion at these pathetic untermenschen, until the russian man knees him in the crotch. at that point the soldier and his friend lose all ties to sanity and the madness that had been brewing in them for the last day and a half takes hold. the soldier who had been struck threw the man to the ground, shattering his wasted-away hip in the process, and instructed his compatriot to keep the pair on the ground at gunpoint while was gone. stepping out of the shack, the soldier strides over to the uprooted fence and cuts 4 lengths of barbed wire out. returning, he places the pair on their stomachs, looking at each other, and binds their hands and feet with the stuff, making sure to pierce their paper-thin flesh at every opportunity. The soldiers begin with the man, beating every inch of him they can find, and cutting off just enough fingers to ensure he stays awake and in pain. they shatter his bones. they take an eyeball. It would have been both, but for the soldier's partner suggesting they leave one in so the man could see what happened next. Next, of course, referred to the woman. to call her rape brutal is to call a solar flare a power surge. no orifice was spared, and the soldiers took a mad glee in their work, sodomizing and penetrating her withered body until they were satisfied. As they prepared to leave, the assaulted soldier took one had one more cruel surprise in store. Whispering curses into the man's ear for his brash mouth against the Wermacht's finest, he promised him he would never be afforded that opportunity again, and slashed his throat with the edge of his spade. The soldiers gone, the man lay looking into the eyes of his sobbing bride, struggling and gasping, trying to get one last "I love you" out before the blood loss got to him. With a final, desperate gurgle his body went slack, and the life continued to pour from his throat. the woman lay sobbing uncontrollably for hours, wishing for an end to her existence. little did she know, that end was coming sooner than she thought. Night was coming, and the local wolves hadn't eaten in weeks.
undedo at 23:07
Today...
Hoy fue mi cumpleaños, consumí heroína en la mañana, ya llevaba tiempo sin hacerlo, pero que mas da, la aspire temprano porque tenia que ir a ver a mi madre para comer, ocultando mis ojos tras lentes oscuros, en vez de felicitaciones recibí regaños por no seguir las instrucciones del psiquiatra, me fui sin acabar mi comida, nadie mas me felicito el día de hoy.
Intente salir con una chica y me rechazaron con un típico "al rato te hablo" así que me quede con dos botellas de vino tinto para mi, ahorita solo queda media.
La vida es tan mierda... al menos solo quedan 9 cumpleaños mas.
undedo at 23:00