HISTORY Part III: Historical Lessons of justice we can learn from past events, ambitious leaders, and extreme ideology imposed on nations
AGN Life: Part III
December 3, 2022
WASHINGTON (AGN.News) – This is Part III of our Historic Lessons series. History can be defined as the study and documentation of the past. This history is a record of past events between 1933 and 1945.
History is a record of inventions. History is a record of people and their accomplishments, of governments and their successes and failures. History offers us a window into the future.
“History” is an umbrella term comprising facts of past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of past events
1934 Historical events and people
On January 1, 1934, Nazi Germany passes the “Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring”.
On January 26, 1934, Nazi Germany & Poland sign 10-year non-aggression treaty.
On January 26, 1934, German dictator, Adolf Hitler issues a proclamation on German unified states as he consolidates his power.
Justice served on Fascist dictator
On February 1, 1934, Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (4 October 1892 – 25 July 1934), was an Austrian clerical fascist politician who served as Chancellor of Austria between 1932 and 1934.
In early 1933, he dissolved parliament and assumed dictatorial powers. Dollfuss began suppressing the Socialist movement in February 1934 during the Austrian Civil War and later banning the Austrian Nazi Party, he cemented the rule of “Austrofascism” through the authoritarian First of May Constitution.
On February 1, 1934, Engelbert Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his.
Dollfuss was assassinated as part of a failed coup attempt by Nazi agents in 1934. His successor Kurt Schuschnigg maintained the regime until Adolf Hitler’s annexation of Austria in 1938.
Fascism ideology grows in Europe
On February 6, 1934, Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
On February 12, 1934, France is hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists. This disrupted the daily lives of the people of France.
Fascism now spreading across Europe
On February 13, 1934, Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss’ government bans the socialist party.
On February 16, 1934, the Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
On March 17, 1934, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, of Austria, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945), Prime Minister of Italy, and Gyula Gömbös de Jákfa (26 December 1886 – 6 October 1936), Prime Minister of Hungary, sign the Donau Pact (protocols of Rome).
These three Fascist leaders helped the spread of Fascist ideology. Benito Mussolini inspired and supported the international spread of fascist movements across Europe. National Fascist Party leader Benito Mussolini was identified by Fascists as Il Duce (‘The Leader’) of the movement.
Justice served on these Fascist leaders
On 25 July 1934, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated as part of a failed coup attempt by Nazi agents in 1934.
On 25 April 1945, as the World War II was coming to an end, Allied forces were on the lookout for, the now on-the-run, Benito Mussolini. On 27 April 1945, Mussolini, his mistress, and some of his associates were arrested.
On 28 April 1945, in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra, Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were both summarily shot, along with most of the members of their 15-man train, primarily ministers and officials of the Italian Social Republic.
On 28 April 1945, Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, as dictator of Italy and principal founder of fascism, who inspired and supported the international spread of fascist movements during the inter-war period. Mussolini met the same fate he gave so many others, death by execution.
On 29 April 1945, the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci, and the other executed Fascists were loaded into a van and moved south to Milan.
At 3:00 a.m., the corpses were dumped on the ground in the old Piazzale Loreto. The piazza had been renamed “Piazza Quindici Martiri” (Fifteen Martyrs’ Square) in honor of fifteen Italian partisans recently executed there.
After being kicked and spat upon, the bodies of Bombacci, Mussolini, Petacci, Pavolini and Starace were hung upside down from the roof of an Esso gas station. The bodies were then stoned from below by civilians.
This was done both to discourage any Fascists from continuing the fight, and as an act of revenge for the hanging of many partisans in the same place by Axis authorities.
The corpse of the deposed leader was subject to ridicule and abuse. Fascist loyalist Achille Starace was captured and sentenced to death and then taken to the Piazzale Loreto and shown the body of Mussolini. Starace once said of Mussolini “He is a god”.
What happened to Gyula Gömbös?
Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös of Hungary formed an alliance with Germany. When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, Gömbös was the first foreign head of government to visit the Nazi leader.
Shortly after Hitler came to power, Gömbös signed a major trade agreement with Germany in the hope of reducing Hungary’s unemployment rate as the 1930s progressed. That amity, however, failed to endure.
Hitler considered Gömbös to be far too pro-Jewish and made it clear to Gömbös that his support of Hungary had a price. The German dictator voiced willingness to take Hungary’s side in any effort that Hungary carried out to regain Hungarian land from Czechoslovakia,
Hitler made it clear that he would not support Hungary against the territorial ambitions of either Romania or Yugoslavia. Unlike Mussolini, Hitler also resented Gömbös’s plans to expand the size and power of the Hungarian military.
Gömbös never lived to see his ambitious plans for Hungary come to fruition. Gömbös, after a long illness, died of testicular cancer in Munich on 6 October 1936.
Justice was served on the 1st Nazi
On April 18, 1934, Führer Adolf Hitler names Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) ambassador for disarmament. He was later the Foreign Minister of Germany in February 1938.
Joachim von Ribbentrop was arrested in June 1945. Ribbentrop was convicted and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials for his role in starting World War II in Europe and enabling the Holocaust. On 16 October 1946, he became the first of the Nuremberg defendants to be executed by hanging.
Justice was served on another Nazi
On April 20, 1934, Heinrich Himmler became inspector Prussian secret state police. Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS).
From 1943 onwards, he was both Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). He controlled the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS.
In December 1941, Hitler resolved that the Jews of Europe were to be “exterminated”. Hitler placed Himmler in charge of the plan to murder 11 million Jews. Himmler made every effort to prove his loyalty to Hitler by carrying out the plan with the Holocaust.
In April 1945, with the collapse of the Third Reich, Nazis turned on Nazis. Hitler branded Himmler a traitor and expelled him from the Nazi party. His loyalty was rewarded with universal hatred by the Nazi party. The main architect of the Holocaust, that murdered over six million Jews, was now an outcast and on the run.
On May 11, 1945, Heinrich Himmler still on the run, was very scared. On May 21st he was captured. Himmler was taken to the headquarters of the Second British Army in Lüneburg, where a doctor conducted a medical exam on him.
The doctor attempted to examine the inside of Himmler’s mouth, but the prisoner was reluctant to open it and jerked his head away. Himmler then bit into a hidden potassium cyanide pill and collapsed onto the floor. He was dead within 15 minutes.
He died an unceremonious death. Shortly afterward, Himmler’s body was buried in an unmarked grave near Lüneburg. The grave’s location remains unknown. Justice was served!
Fascist dictators come to power and were served justice for their failed effort to rule over people, cultures, economies, governments, and nations in 1934.
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