Scott Goldstein

OHRDURF CONSENTRATION CAMP April 12 1945 General's Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and George Patton visited Ohrdurf a week after it was liberated. It was if Eisenhower knew that the Nazi atrocities of the Holocaust would one day be dismissed as exaggerations or denied outright. "The things I saw begger description," said Eisenhower "The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick...I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give firsthand witness of these things if ever, in the future there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to propaganda." General Patton said, "One of the most appalling sights I have ever seen." Eisenhower then called General Marshall with a request to bring over members of Congress and journalists so they could bring the horrible truth about German Nazi atrocities to the American public. NEVER AGAIN!

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Don Mattingly been taking throws at 1st base during infield practice since joining the Phillies staff 31 years after he retired from the majors. “Trying to get all the 65-year-olds out there to stay active, keep moving. It’s good for you. Let’s go 65-year-olds.”

Jerome Bonaparte, youngest brother of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and the only one among Napoleon's brothers to ever be photographed, 1850

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Napoleon Bonaparte died 205 years ago today. His tomb now rests in the magnificent Dôme des Invalides in Paris.

🌑 They tortured her. They starved her. They sent her to hell. But they could never break Sister Kate. In the darkness of Nazi-occupied France, an Irish nun from County Cork became one of the most fearless warriors of the French Resistance. Sister Marie-Laurence — known to the world as Sister Kate McCarthy — turned her hospital into a lifeline for the Allies. She smuggled hundreds of downed British and American pilots to safety, dodging Gestapo bullets and betrayal at every turn. Until they caught her. Arrested in 1941, she was beaten, tortured, and condemned to death. Marked under Hitler’s infamous “Night and Fog” decree, she vanished into the nightmare of Ravensbrück concentration camp. But even in that living hell, Sister Kate fought back. While prisoners around her died by the thousands, she and her sisters sabotaged German parachute harnesses — weakening every stitch so the enemy would fall from the sky. She survived typhus, endless selections for the gas chambers, and starvation so severe she was liberated weighing barely 80 pounds. A nun. A nurse. A resistance legend who looked evil in the eye and refused to blink. France awarded her the Médaille de la Résistance. Britain honored her bravery. History should never forget her name. Sister Kate McCarthy — Irish. Holy. Unbreakable. This is what real courage looks like. 💪🏼♥️

6 May 1937: The German #Zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and crashes when trying to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey. 36 people would die in the tragic accident. #History #OTD #tragedy #ad amzn.to/3ckqp5P

205 years ago today, Napoleon Bonaparte died on a tiny British prison island in the middle of the South Atlantic. He was 51. He had ruled most of Europe. And he changed the world so thoroughly that you are still living inside the systems he built. Start with the obvious one. The Napoleonic Code. He commissioned it in 1800, sat in on the drafting sessions personally, argued with the lawyers, and pushed it through in four years. Equality before the law. Property rights. Religious freedom. The end of feudal privilege. It is still the basis of civil law in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, most of Latin America, Quebec, Louisiana, and chunks of the Middle East and Africa. About a third of the planet writes contracts using rules a Corsican artillery officer wrote between battles. He sold Louisiana to Thomas Jefferson in 1803 for 15 million dollars. Roughly four cents an acre. It doubled the size of the United States overnight. Without that deal there is no St. Louis, no New Orleans as an American city, no Lewis and Clark, no Manifest Destiny. The American century starts with Napoleon needing cash for a war. He invaded Egypt in 1798 with an army and, weirdly, 167 scientists, mathematicians, and artists. They found the Rosetta Stone. That single slab is the reason we can read hieroglyphs at all. Egyptology as a field exists because Napoleon brought scholars to a war. He built the Bank of France, which still runs French monetary policy. He created the lycée system that still educates French teenagers. He shoved the metric system across Europe at sword-point until it stuck. He emancipated the Jews of every territory he conquered, tearing down ghetto walls in Rome, Venice, Frankfurt. He abolished serfdom in Poland. He standardized road networks, civil registries, and tax codes that European governments still operate from. And then there's the soldiering. He fought around 60 major battles and won most of them. Austerlitz, in 1805, against the combined Russian and Austrian empires, is still taught at West Point as one of the closest things to a tactically perfect battle ever fought. He was outnumbered, baited the enemy onto ground he had pre-selected, and broke them in a single afternoon. Three emperors took the field that morning. Only one walked off it on his own terms. He slept four hours a night. He read constantly, dictated letters to four secretaries at the same time, and personally signed off on everything from cavalry boot specs to the seating chart at the Comédie-Française. Wellington, the man who finally beat him at Waterloo, was asked decades later who the greatest general in history was. He answered without hesitating. "In this age, in past ages, in any age, Napoleon." He lost, in the end, because he could not stop. Russia in 1812 swallowed his army whole. Six hundred thousand men marched in. Maybe a tenth came back. He abdicated in 1814, escaped from Elba, ruled France again for 100 days, and lost it all for good in a wheat field in Belgium in June 1815. The British shipped him to St. Helena, a volcanic dot 1,200 miles off the African coast, and waited. He spent six years there dictating his memoirs, gardening, complaining about the dampness, and quietly rewriting his own legend so effectively that Europe spent the next century arguing about him. He died on May 5, 1821, during a storm so violent it ripped up the willow tree he liked to read under. His last words trailed off into fever. France. The army. Joséphine. Nineteen years later France brought him home. Two million people stood in the snow to watch the coffin go by. He was a tyrant. He was a reformer. He started wars that killed somewhere between three and six million people. He also wrote the rulebook that a third of humanity still lives under. Most people who try to conquer the world are forgotten inside a generation. Napoleon has been dead for 205 years and we are still arguing about him because we are still using his furniture.

"When I walked onto the campus of the University of Georgia and they were saying, 'Nigger go home!' I was looking around for the nigger. I mean I knew who *I* was. I was a queen." Charlayne Hunter-Gault, on the "suit of armor" given to her by her parents, interview, May 7, 1997.

Maynard “Snuffy” Smith: The Unlikely WWII Hero Who Saved His Crew on His First Mission 🪖❤️ They called him “Snuffy” as an insult — a small, scrappy airman who didn’t quite fit in with his B-17 crew. But on May 1, 1943, Staff Sergeant Maynard Harrison Smith turned that nickname into legend. It was his very first combat mission — a bombing run on German U-boat pens at Saint-Nazaire, France. His plane was shredded by flak and fighters. The fuselage caught fire. Wounded crewmen were scattered. Most of the team bailed out. Snuffy stayed. Alone in the chaos, he: • Fought off wave after wave of enemy fighters from his ball turret. • Crawled through the burning plane and put out the flames (using extinguishers, then anything he could — including his own urine when supplies ran dry). • Tended to the injured, gave first aid, and helped keep the battered Fortress in the air until they limped home safely. For his extraordinary courage on that single mission, Snuffy became the first enlisted member of the U.S. Army Air Forces to receive the Medal of Honor. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson awarded it to him personally. He flew only a handful of missions total, lived a colorful life afterward, and passed in 1984. His story reminds us that heroes don’t always look the part — sometimes they’re the ones others overlook… until the moment that counts. True bravery has no size limit. 🇺🇸 #SnuffySmith #MedalOfHonor #WWIIHeroes

On an autumn day in 1944, deep in the chaos of war-torn France, a squad of American soldiers pushed forward through dangerous ground, every step carrying the weight of the unknown. Among them was Robert E. Laws. The fight tightened without warning. What had been movement turned instantly into survival. Then, in a moment that gave no time for thought, a grenade landed among them. No warning. No second chance. Laws saw it-and didn't hesitate. He dove onto it. In that single act, he used his own body to absorb the blast. What should have taken multiple lives ended with one. His squad lived. He did not. There were no orders. No time to weigh options. Just instinct-and a decision that placed everyone else before himself. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, yet like so many from World War II, his name isn't widely remembered today. And that's what sticks with me. I sit here, years removed from anything like that kind of moment, and I try to wrap my head around it. A single second where everything is on the line-and instead of stepping back, he stepped forward. I think about the world we live in now, how easy it is to get caught up in the small stuff, the noise, the distractions. And then I read a story like this, and it puts things in a different light. That generation carried something different. A sense of duty that didn't need to be explained. A willingness to give everything without expecting anything in return. I don't know if any of us really know how we'd respond in a moment like that. But I know this—because of men like Robert E. Laws, others got to live full lives, go home, have families, grow old. He never got that chance. Some acts of courage don't last long. But they echo forever. 🙏🇺🇸🙏

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Words Tim Wakefield wrote in his phone before he passed away a few years ago. Posted shortly by his wife. Powerful words we should all live by.

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A mother and her eight sons, all of whom served and returned home safely.

Four students killed at Kent State today 1970—William Schroeder, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller and Sandra Lee Scheuer:

4 May 1938: German #journalist and anti-Nazi Carl von Ossietzky, who won the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for exposing German rearmament, dies in Berlin. The Nazis refused to let him go to Norway to receive the prize. German dictator Adolf Hitler then refused to let any German accept any Nobel Prize. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3Kt44D7

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#OTD in May 1945, the 71st Infantry Division liberated Gunskirchen. There they found some 15,000 prisoners. "The living and dead, evidence of horror and brutality beyond one’s imagination was there ... " wrote Major Cameron Coffman. #America250 Learn more: bit.ly/4cPE7xX