#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.

#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.

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#OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive radio operator. The British SOE supported the French resistance. Radio operators ran the greatest risk of discovery as their position could be triangulated when they were transmitting.

Baseden was captured and sent to Ravensbrück.

She was the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.

“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.”

#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London partially opens. The construction force included many women, giving it the nickname “the Ladies Bridge”.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/england-built-by-women/

Very early #OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1944, Denise Bloch and Eileen Nearne arrived, separately, into occupied France as wireless operators for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supported the French resistance in sabotaging Nazi operations.

Both women were arrested by the summer. Denise was killed in Ravensbrück. Eileen escaped but never recovered her health.

Very late #OnThisDay, 28 Feb 1944, Madeleine Damerment parachuted into occupied France to be an agent for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE worked with the French Resistance.

She was French, and had previously run escape lines for downed airmen. She escaped France in 1942, and then chose to return.

She was immediately arrested as the network had been betrayed. She was executed at Dachau in Sept 1944.

#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany.

Her cellmate said her last words to her were “how can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”

On this day in 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.
The executive order put hundreds of thousands of people into concentration camps.
The vast majority of the people imprisoned were Japanese-American, though some were German-Americans and Italian-Americans were also imprisoned.
Japanese-Americans who were not imprisoned in the camps faced violence and discrimination.

I remember back in my youth there were a number of "jokes" about #Italy being an unreliable / incompetent ally to #Germany in #WorldWar2 .

These don't sound so funny now, and not just because I've learned a bit about the numerous atrocities the Germans committed in Italy during the later stage of the war.

No, I think the main reason we Germans should refrain from making any jokes about this is because Italians, unlike Germans, actually managed to get effective armed resistance movements going against their #fascist regime. During the Third Reich, German resistance was mostly ineffective - there were lots of conscientious objectors to the Nazis, but there was no armed resistance to speak of.

What might have been if German resistance forces had shot Hitler? That would have sent a powerful signal - but Germans who took up arms almost always followed the Nazis, to the bitter end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini

#OnThisDay, 22 Jan 1944, Sonia Olschanezky is arrested by the Gestapo. She had run an Special Operations Executive guerrilla network near Paris after the leader was arrested. The British-based SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

She was killed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp six months after her arrest.

The Engineer Behind Mine Detection - According to [Joanna Goodrich]  in IEEE Spectrum, prior to World War II, soldiers ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/the-engineer-behind-mine-detection/ #metaldetector #minedetector #mischacks #worldwar2 #inventor

Righting a wrong, name by name − the #Irei monument honors #Japanese #Americans imprisoned by the #US government during #WorldWar2 https://theconversation.com/righting-a-wrong-name-by-name-the-irei-monument-honors-japanese-americans-imprisoned-by-the-us-government-during-world-war-ii-244121

**Japan - Singapore - 1941. Movietone Moment**

British Movietone

_"On this day in 1941, Japan invaded Singapore. Here is a British Movietone report of the first blitz on Singapore."_

#Video length: one minute and forty-nine seconds.

https://youtu.be/RZgCMQVTNaw

#OnThisDay #OTD #History #Histodon #Histodons #Japan #Singapore #WorldWar2 #WorldWarII #WW2 #WWII @histodon @histodons

Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of Cartel Capitalism in Western Europe, 1918–1957

"I show how governments of all ideological stripes—from liberal Britain to New Deal America, social-democratic Belgium, Third Republic France, Peronist Argentina, fascist Italy and Japan, and Nazi Germany—all began mandating cartelization in hopes that business cooperation on prices and production could cure the Great Depression’s dislocations."

Hewitt, L. (2024) ‘Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of Cartel Capitalism in Western Europe, 1918–1957’, Enterprise & Society, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2024.38.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Business #Cartels #Capitalism #Monopoly #WorldWarII #WorldWar2 #WW2 #GreatDepression #Europe #USA #US #UnitedStates #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

#FotoMontag #PhotoMonday from #Gander, #Newfoundland and Labrador. This cast iron sculpture is located at the old Gander townsite from the 1930s to 1950s, now Gander Heritage Trails. #WorldWar2 #RoyalAirForce #ComeFromAway