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An awareness page for the Arnett Institute's WWII Scanning Project, working to help digitize WWII records in the National Archives before they turn to dust!
03/30/2015
30 Mar 45: Germany: Day 24 of 45 of the Battle of the Ruhr Pocket. The US 1st Army begins a 3-day battle for Paderborn, during which Major General Maurice Rose is killed in action.
Rose was a fighting general who constantly put himself on the front lines in harm's way. He was the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed in battle, and the only individual casualty to spark a War Crimes Investigation.
More: http://scanningwwii.com/a?d=0330&s=b450330
03/29/2015
29 Mar 36: In a national referendum in Germany to obtain public support for the occupation of the Rhineland and approval of a single party list composed exclusively by N**i candidates for the new Reichstag, over 98% of Germans turnout to vote. An unknown vote counting procedure, however, has been slipped in: If a voter doesn't write "no" alongside a candidate's name, then that vote is counted as a "yes" for the N**i candidate.
More: http://scanningwwii.com/a?d=0329&s=360329
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