Mastodawn

#EU votes in support of #Nuremberg-style #tribunal for #Russia

“This is a significant & long-anticipated step forward”

It marks transition from conceptual design to final phase of institutional establishment

Special Tribunal being set up will #prosecute Russia for the same crime of aggression that #Nazi German leaders were found guilty of in Nuremberg trials after #WWII

https://kyivindependent.com/eu-signs-on-to-new-court-to-prosecute-putin-for-war-of-aggression/

#WarCrimes #RussianWarCrimes #RussianInvasions #RussianInvasion #imperialism #RussianAggression

EU votes in support of Nuremberg-style tribunal for Russia

The Special Tribunal plays an important role because no other court has a legal mandate to prosecute the international crime of starting a war of aggression.

The Kyiv Independent

Marie-cecile Bouju 6h ago

#WWII #Resistance #Histoire

Il Mitte Berlino 7h ago

Lo stesso evento si festeggia all'est e all'ovest in due date diverse e con due nomi diversi: per la Russia è la Giornata della Vittoria, per la Germania quello della Liberazione.

#Germania #Russia #WWII

Foto: Ivan Macioce

https://www.ilmitte.com/2026/05/perche-in-germania-si-festeggia-la-giornata-della-vittoria/

Perché in Germania si festeggia la "Giornata della Vittoria" ?

Il 9 maggio si commemora la resa della Germania nazista nella Seconda guerra mondiale: per i russi, la "Giornata della Vittoria".

il Mitte

Ugly Reykjavik 17h ago

It almost blends in with the landscape. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #abandoned #decay #moss #snow #history #WW2 #WWII

Son of Sandor 19h ago

May 5, 1941 #WWII TIME Last week Republic Aircraft Corp. put the finishing flicks to its new P-47, powered with a 2,000-hp Pratt & Whitney air-cooled engine. Republic designers declared the new P-47 (to go into production in a new factory within a few weeks) would top 400 miles an hour, would have a fighting altitude of 40,000 ft. Apparently the Air Corps was convinced.
https://time.com/archive/6786079/air-typhoon/

AIR: Typhoon

Last week in London Lord Beaverbrook made an announcement that many a U.S. airman had been waiting to hear. British designers, working under the drive of war, had finally produced an airplane that...

Time

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Son of Sandor 20h ago

May 5, 1941 #WWII TIME If it appeared certain there was no other way to defeat Germany and Italy except for the United States to go to war against them, would you be in favor of the U.S. going into the war? Answer: Would favor war, 68%; would oppose war, 24%; undecided, 8%..

A reporter asked why Colonel Lindbergh, although an Army Reserve officer, had not been called to the colors. The President leaned back in his chair, pondered, recalled that during the Civil War numerous foreigners, liberty-loving people, fought on both sides, and that at the same time both sides did not call certain people to service. The people who were thus ignored, he said, were the Vallandighams.
https://time.com/archive/6786062/the-presidency-questions-answers/

THE PRESIDENCY: Questions & Answers

"We have committed ourselves in this world struggle. . . . We cannot allow our goods to be sunk in the Atlantic—we shall be beaten if they do. . . . [This] is our fight." So...

Time

AZugM 22h ago

#WarAmbient

🔊 "Der heilige Krieg"

von Annelieses Zerstörung unter gefrorenen Monden (AZugM)

#Audiocollage mit einer Stalinorgel (Katjuscha), einem MG42 und dem Vaterunser auf Aramäisch.

#DarkAmbient #Ambient #Noise #Experimental #Audio #Collage #Music #Jesus #Religion #Prayer #WW2 #WWII #War #Guns #weird #strange

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD 1d ago

In Europe for the 40th anniversary of #WWII's ending, #RonaldReagan, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1985, visited #Kolmeshöhe military cemetery at #Bitburg, in which 49 #WaffenSS men are buried. Public outcry altered his itinerary to include a visit to #BergenBelsen #ConcentrationCamp.