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[11] [12] Winston Churchill (in 1929 [11] [13]) and other contemporary writers used it before World War II to describe the Armenian genocide of World War I. [14] The Armenian Genocide is referenced in the title of a 1922 poem "The Holocaust" (published as a booklet) and the 1923 book "The Smyrna Holocaust" deals with arson and massacre of ...
This is a list of nicknames and pseudonyms of Nazis.Common nicknames (as translated into English) include variations of "Beast", "Butcher" and "Angel of Death". Most high-ranking Nazis did not have a nickname.
Name Photograph Date of birth Date of death Age at death Role Fate Adolf Hitler: April 20, 1889: April 30, 1945: 56 years, 10 days Leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich. Chancellor of Germany Führer. Committed suicide by gunshot [1] [2] Heinrich Himmler: October 7, 1900: May 23, 1945: 44 years, 228 days Reichsführer-SS. Chief of ...
A feigned retreat is a military tactic, a type of feint, whereby a military force pretends to withdraw or to have been routed, in order to lure an enemy into a position of vulnerability. [ 1 ] A feigned retreat is one of the more difficult tactics for a military force to undertake, and requires well-disciplined soldiers.
A mounted archer of the Ming Dynasty Army fires a parthian shot. In the 4th century BCE, Sun Tzu said "the Military is a Tao of deception". [7] Diversionary attacks, feints, decoys; there are thousands of tricks that have been successfully used in warfare, and still have a role in the modern day.
Muselmann (German plural Muselmänner) was a term used amongst prisoners of German Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust of World War II to refer to those suffering from a combination of starvation (known also as "hunger disease") and exhaustion, as well as those who were resigned to their impending death.
The French people at the time distinguished between Israélites (a polite term in French) who were "properly" assimilated French Jews and the Juifs (formerly a derogatory term in French, nowadays the standard name for Jewish people) who were the "foreign" and "unassimilated" Jews who were widely seen as criminals from abroad living in slums in ...
A feint retreat, or feigned retreat, is performed by briefly engaging the enemy, then retreating. It is intended to draw the enemy pursuit into a prepared ambush, or to cause disarray. For example, the Battle of Hastings was lost when Saxons pursued the Norman cavalry. That forfeited the advantage of height and the line was broken, providing ...