#BletchleyPark code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

A decorated #WorldWarTwo code breaker who spent her youth deciphering enemy messages at Bletchley Park has died at the age of 101.

Mrs Webb, from Wythall in Worcestershire, joined operations at the Buckinghamshire base at the age of 18, later going on to help with Japanese codes at The Pentagon in the US. She was awarded France's highest honour - the Légion d'Honneur - in 2021.
#ww2 #codebreaker #obituaries

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8o

Edgar Faure, who died OTD in 1988, was in the French Resistance during #WorldWarTwo, he later served as Prime Minister of #France in 1952 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/wwii-french-resistance/?s=mb #travel #history

Lise de Baissac, who died OTD in 2004, was a heroine of the Special Operations Executive during #WorldWarTwo, a special agent who risked her life running her own operations https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/wwii-french-resistance/?s=mb #travel #France #history

Today in Labor History March 19, 1933: Nazis arrested Jewish antifascist photographer Gerda Taro and interrogated her about a supposed communist plot to overthrow Hitler. She had previously been arrested for distributing anti-fascist literature. The Nazis eventually let her go and she fled to France, and then Yugoslavia. She died at the age of 26, photo-documenting the Spanish Republican war against Franco and the fascists. Some said that she was responsible, along with Robert Capa, of inventing the genre of war photography. Capa was actually the nom de guerre of Taro’s lover, Endre Friedmann, a Hungarian Jew who taught her the art of photography and who later went on to found Magnum Photos, along with French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. “Capa” was Friedmann’s street name, back in Hungary. It meant “shark.”

#Navajo Code Talkers disappear from #military websites after #Trump #DEI order.

From 1942 to 1945, the Navajo #CodeTalkers were instrumental in every major #MarineCorps operation in the Pacific Theater of #WorldWarTwo.

They were critical to securing America's victory at #IwoJima.

Naxios identified at least 10 articles mentioning the Code Talkers that had disappeared from the U.S. Army and Department of Defense websites as of Monday.

#Diné #USPol #auspol #RESIST

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii

#SilentSunday

A question about the past answered

"Scum [Back] On Top" Part Forty-Eight

#FoxNews #NaziGermany #WorldWarTwo #Politics

https://www.writingsandart.com/Art/Scum%20On%20Top/sot49.html

Today in Labor History March 4, 1943: The Battle of Fardykambos began. It was one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. The battle lasted 3 days. The Greeks forced the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and liberated the town of Grevena. The Greek Resistance was one of the strongest anti-fascist resistance movements in Europe during the war. The Communist National Liberation Front, the largest contingent in the Greek Resistance, fought the Italians during the Battle of Fardykambos. As the fighting progressed, local civilians joined in, as did many of the right-wing members of the Greek Resistance. As a result of their victory, they obtained many weapons and took 550 Italians as prisoners of war.

“Stamp ‘em out! Buy U.S. stamps and bonds.” Poster by Thomas A. Byrne. WPA War Services of La., circa 1941–43. Via Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98518290/.

"Cloak and Dagger," dir. Fritz Lang (Warner Bros., 1946), is good as a thriller and as a war film. Unfortunately, it never develops its initial premise, the international race to develop the atomic bomb.
#OldMovies #AtomBomb #AtomicAge #WorldWarTwo (1/3)

https://www.europesays.com/1867427/ Germany’s polls could reshape Europe as conservative Merz aims to lead amid far-right surge #afd #ChancellorOlafScholz #ChristianDemocrats #ChristianSocialUnion #DebtBrake #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #eu #europe #fdp #germany #migration #RefugeesWelcome #SocialDemocrats #Ukraine #WorldWarTwo

‘People who do not know what others in a group actually think often decide that it is safer to go along with what appear to be the dominant norms in order not to stand out.’
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 8/52 ★★★★☆

Must read. Here's why in
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6214923141

En hier in
https://verzameldezinnen.nl/2025/02/08/erbij-staan-en-ernaar-kijken-boekbespreking/

#Boeken @boeken
#Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Geschiedenis #History
#TweedeWereldoorlog
#WWII #WorldWarTwo #Holocaust

"Photo of Mixed Race Sociability in Jim Crow Washington, DC, 1944" https://markstoneman.com/2025/02/08/photo-of-mixed-race-sociability.html
#FederalWorkers #MilitaryService #Labor #Unions #WorldWarTwo #Equality #OldPhotos #BlackHistory #WashingtonDC #JimCrow #UShistory

Blogged: "World War Two Poster Marking the Dignity and Humanity of Black Women on the Home Front" https://markstoneman.com/2025/02/08/world-war-two-poster-marking.html
Follow link for analysis and source information.
#WorldWarTwo #WWII #HomeFront #BlackWomen #Poster #BHM #BlackStudies

Camouflage Class In New York University, March 1943
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https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017878859/ <-- shared Library Of Congress item details
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https://loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/ <-- shared general Library Of Congress Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs page
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“… Men And Women Are Preparing For Jobs In The Army Or In Industry, New York… They make models from aerial photographs, re-photograph them, then work out a camouflage scheme and make a final photograph…”
#mapping #imagery #remotesensing #history #historicphotograph #Camouflage #class #NewYorkUniversity #WorldWarTwo #homefront # #civilians #military #LibraryOfCongress #army #industry #USArmy
@NewYorkUniversity @LibraryOfCongress

99-year-old Anita Lasker-Wallfisch is the last remaining survivor of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. She attributes her survival to the fact that the orchestra needed a cellist. She spoke to @BBCNews in 1945, on the day of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen death camp to which she had been transferred six months before, and again in 1996. Here is her story, details of which some readers may find distressing. Having vowed never to set foot again on German soil, she later softened her stance and went in 2018 to Berlin to address the Bundestag (parliament). She told them: "As you see, I broke my oath – many, many years ago – and I have no regrets. It's quite simple: hate is poison and, ultimately, you poison yourself."

https://flip.it/a2Hjvm

Today in Labor History January 18, 1943: The start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In the summer of 1942, over a quarter million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered. In response, the remaining Jews began building bunkers and smuggling weapons and explosives into the ghetto. On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis began their second deportation of the Jews, the armed insurgency began. They fought with whatever they could smuggle into the ghetto: handguns, gasoline bottles and a few other weapons. They inflicted enough casualties on the Nazis that the deportation was halted within a few days. Only 5,000 Jews were removed, instead of the 8,000 planned. They knew from the start that the uprising was doomed. Most of the Jewish fighters did not expect to survive. Rather, they saw their resistance as a battle for their honor and a protest against the world's silence. Marek Edelman, one of the few survivors, said their inspiration to fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths."

Happy 150th

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer #Churchill (30 Nov.1874–24 Jan.1965) was a statesman, #military officer and writer who served as Prime Minister of  from 1940–1945 (during #WorldWarTwo) and again from 1951–1955. Apart from 1922–1924, he was an MP from 1900 to 1964

Today in Labor History November 28, 1944: 400 people in Rotterdam attacked a coal warehouse during the Nazi occupation. The Nazis executed 40 Dutch men in retaliation. By 1944, over 300,000 Dutch resisters were living underground, combined with tens of thousands more who were actively resisting the occupation.

November 15, 1936: 1,800 militiamen from the anarchist Durutti Column entered Madrid to fight the fascists. Madrid was the first large city in the world to be subjected to a fascist attack as a prelude to WWII. By November 18th, only 700 of the 1800 anarchist militiamen were still fighting. Many had died and others had deserted because of hunger and sleep deprivation. Durutti persuaded some to return to their positions, but was himself mortally wounded on November 20.