A pair of Orpo officers firing on members of a Hitler Youth cell sympathetic to Heinrich Himmler during the German Civil War. Hitler's death brought a number of rivalries within the Third Reich out from the shadows and street fighting between those who sympathized with the Wehrmacht or SS became common. Even members of the Hitler Youth took part depending on which faction their families were loyal to.
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A pair of Orpo officers firing on members of a Hitler Youth cell sympathetic to Heinrich Himmler during the German Civil War. Hitler's death brought a number of rivalries within the Third Reich out from the shadows and street fighting between those who sympathized with the Wehrmacht or SS became common. Even members of the Hitler Youth took part depending on which faction their families were loyal to.
Korean army soldiers on a training march near Hamhung, 1952. A large amount of tension existed between commanders educated by the Japanese and those trained by the Americans, for reasons of both philosophy and strategic mindsets. Those commanders who followed the Imperial Japanese philosophy had sympathies toward the anti-colonial and somewhat anti-western rhetoric of Chiang's regime. The CIA and Korean NIS suspected that these commanders may attempt to carry out a coup and install a regime sympathetic to Nanjing.
Photo of Hermann Goering. He would succeed in becoming the new leader after Hitler’s death and would pursue pragmatic reforms towards the German economy and seek out more friendly relations in with the Toroto Accord.He is credited by many for increasing the lifespan of the Reich. He would die in 1961.
Organized crime edition
Lucky Luciano standing in front of a genovese owned building in tokyo,1957. After the collapse of the japanese empire and the subsuquent american occupation the commision headed by lucky luciano sought to expand more and more into overseas and their first step is to establish a foothold and presence in japan (more spesifically city like tokyo,kobe,kyoto,shibuya,osaka etc). this of course lead to conflict with the local yakuza which by the time the mafia arrived has been already well known and feared by the local population and also they didnt take it kindly that a foreign group and especially an american one is trying to establish a foothold in japan and this coupled by several attack by the yakuza against several mafia made men resulted in a war that lasted well until the late 70s and early 80s. (several city changed hands during this time for example kobe exhanged hands from the mafia and the yakuza 5 times while kyoto after a series of street fighting and assasination was firmly in the hands of the mafia even to this day) it is only stopped when the japanese goverment enacted a harsh crackdown on these group which resulted in their slow decline.
A group of chinese triad in nanjing discussing about the recent goverment crackdown on several triad owned businesses, 1974. The triad especially the hong kong triad flourished after the japanese defeat in the pacific war and the subsuquent post war shortages in china and taiwan, several triad organisation like the 18k is also responsible for the decline of the mafia in area like san fransisco and los angeles following their expansion into north america with some even be found on mexico city (though in los angeles case it mostly fell to korean gangs and later african american and hispanic street gangs which resulted in the triad also seeing a slow decline in that city). The cia and even the vietnamese has been known to supply the triad in an attempt to undermine the nanjing goverment which in recent time has been steadily more and more anti western
Lucky Luciano standing in front of a genovese owned building in tokyo,1957. After the collapse of the japanese empire and the subsuquent american occupation the commision headed by lucky luciano sought to expand more and more into overseas and their first step is to establish a foothold and presence in japan (more spesifically city like tokyo,kobe,kyoto,shibuya,osaka etc). this of course lead to conflict with the local yakuza which by the time the mafia arrived has been already well known and feared by the local population and also they didnt take it kindly that a foreign group and especially an american one is trying to establish a foothold in japan and this coupled by several attack by the yakuza against several mafia made men resulted in a war that lasted well until the late 70s and early 80s. (several city changed hands during this time for example kobe exhanged hands from the mafia and the yakuza 5 times while kyoto after a series of street fighting and assasination was firmly in the hands of the mafia even to this day) it is only stopped when the japanese goverment enacted a harsh crackdown on these group which resulted in their slow decline.
A group of chinese triad in nanjing discussing about the recent goverment crackdown on several triad owned businesses, 1974. The triad especially the hong kong triad flourished after the japanese defeat in the pacific war and the subsuquent post war shortages in china and taiwan, several triad organisation like the 18k is also responsible for the decline of the mafia in area like san fransisco and los angeles following their expansion into north america with some even be found on mexico city (though in los angeles case it mostly fell to korean gangs and later african american and hispanic street gangs which resulted in the triad also seeing a slow decline in that city). The cia and even the vietnamese has been known to supply the triad in an attempt to undermine the nanjing goverment which in recent time has been steadily more and more anti western
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A gang of bikers belonging to 'Bosozoku' criminal subculture driving through a forest on the outskirts of Osaka, 1960. The Bosozoku began appearing in Japan in the 1950s when American and British made motorcycles were imported to the country. The first Bosozoku took inspiration from Greasers in the US and were seen as a symptom of loosened social mores by older Japanese. Many Bosozoku were later recruited by the Yakuza who were in great need of foot soldiers following the end of the Pacific War.
Mob boss Simon Hill in Detroit, 1950. Hill took charge of the organized crime groups in the Midwest in the mid 1940s and was seen as a possible successor to Al Capone by the FBI. A number of his enforcers were demobilized soldiers from the Pacific War. Hill's activities varied from murder for hire, bookkeeping, operation of gambling dens and larceny to bootlegging and drug trafficking. Despite the suspicions of the FBI, Hill had no part in Berlin's efforts to create a fifth column among German-American in the Midwest. In an interview with the journalist Tracy Block, Hill told her 'getting involved with Hitler would've been a death sentence, and whether or not it was the feds or Abwehr who did me in made no difference. It was too dangerous a game.'
Chinese crime lord Gao Cai holding court at a nightclub in Chongqing, 1966. Gao started out as a foot soldier in the Sun Ye On in Japanese occupied territory. He first made his fortune in selling Japanese weaponry and opium to other syndicates after the war, earning him enough money to bribe the victorious Kuomintang into leaving him alone. He stayed in Nanjing's good graces by having enemies and potential business rivals set up as communists and arrested. Gao's luck ran out in the mid-1970s, when he tried to blackmail members of a particularly militant branch of the pro-democracy movement, who responded by alerting the authorities to a planned drug deal with Vietnamese gangsters Gao reached out to and getting him arrested.
Libyan paratroopers in Italy's Royal Corps of Colonial Troops. The paratroopers played an essential part in the battle that saw Haile Selassie pushed into British East Africa, ambushing the Ethiopian emperor's forces and pushing them in a valley where they were bombed by the Italian Air Force. Though failing in the mission to capture Selassie, the rest of the mission was considered a success.
FBI Special Agent Robert Lamphere, 1954. Lamphere and his fellow agent Lucas Bracewell uncovered documents proving that Berlin was considering using the Ku Klux Klan as well as other white supremacist groups as fifth columnists. However, Lamphere believed that the Nazis were intending to gain the support of white southerners as a whole. In a report to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President MacArthur, he speculated "the current state of affairs regarding the rise in political activism among negros in the Southern states as well as their increasing base of popular support has inadvertently created an opening for German propagandists, who may begin spreading the idea that democracy has not proved itself up to the task of ensuring the dominance of the white race in America. If we are lacking in our vigilance, we can face the possibility of large scale pro-Nazi uprisings in the South motivated and directed by German intelligence operatives."
Daily update, Yugoslav edition
The abandoned prison complex on the island of Goli Otok. The barren island was the site of a political prison run by the Independent State of Croatia from 1945 until the regime's collapse. Prisoners were forced to work in either a limestone quarry, a tannery or a large pottery kiln. Almost 4000 inmates were killed from overwork, starvation, violence and disease at the "Croatian Alcatraz." The camp fell to a partisan assault in 1959, with most of the guards captured and brought to mainland Croatia for trial.
A Slovenian partisan issuing orders to a partisan air unit, 1954. The air arm of the Yugoslav partisans were a never-ending source of humiliation for the collaborator governments, who fervently pressed both Berlin and Rome for access to better planes. However, the Germans and Italians were reluctant to provide the aircraft and resources their puppet governments requested, both out of fear of the planes being captured and out of fear such air power could be used against them by their client states.
Konsta Musicki, commander of the Serbian Volunteer Corps. His forces were the only native formation trusted by the Germans, though they were never able to secure total victory over the partisans. These shortcoming were partially due to the Volunteer Corps not being able to pursue insurgents who fled outside of Serbia without strict German authorization. Both the Chetniks and Tito's communists exploited this by fleeing into Bosnia and Croatia following successful operations and provoking turf wars between the collaborationist Serbian government and Pavelic's regime.
The abandoned prison complex on the island of Goli Otok. The barren island was the site of a political prison run by the Independent State of Croatia from 1945 until the regime's collapse. Prisoners were forced to work in either a limestone quarry, a tannery or a large pottery kiln. Almost 4000 inmates were killed from overwork, starvation, violence and disease at the "Croatian Alcatraz." The camp fell to a partisan assault in 1959, with most of the guards captured and brought to mainland Croatia for trial.
A Slovenian partisan issuing orders to a partisan air unit, 1954. The air arm of the Yugoslav partisans were a never-ending source of humiliation for the collaborator governments, who fervently pressed both Berlin and Rome for access to better planes. However, the Germans and Italians were reluctant to provide the aircraft and resources their puppet governments requested, both out of fear of the planes being captured and out of fear such air power could be used against them by their client states.
Konsta Musicki, commander of the Serbian Volunteer Corps. His forces were the only native formation trusted by the Germans, though they were never able to secure total victory over the partisans. These shortcoming were partially due to the Volunteer Corps not being able to pursue insurgents who fled outside of Serbia without strict German authorization. Both the Chetniks and Tito's communists exploited this by fleeing into Bosnia and Croatia following successful operations and provoking turf wars between the collaborationist Serbian government and Pavelic's regime.
A japanese man and his wife in the us occupied okinawa, 1965. After the war many japanese sought to migrate somewhere (most choose america or korea or even places like australia) to seek a better life as during the war and the subsuquent invasion by us and its allies they experienced harsh rationing,medicine shortages,domestic violances etc not to mention the conscription by the japanese armed forces made life during the war hell and even after the empire fell most people still suffer from malnutrition and other diseases from the stuff they experience during the war (rape cases also spiked during wartime era as many woman became "comfort woman" for the soldiers) so when the oppurtunity arrises those that are heavily affected choose to move elsewhere in this case to the us occupied okinawa (some do migrate to tsushima but most chose okinawa) in which the condition somewhat improved although they do experience a culture shock as many soldiers and former soldier that is stationed there bring in a lot of american music,foods,traditions etc. they do not mind homever as 4 year (some even goes as far as when the militarist took over) of grueling condition made them accept anything that made their life improved (especially for their children as many wanted to make sure their children never experienced the stuff they had to endure) but this created an effect in which the okinawans (and to some extent the people of tsushima too) is more americanized yet still has that very japanese flare (they still keep many of their tradition and religion but in their daily life these people resembled an urban american than a japanese one) which played a large role in making okinawa permanently in us hands in a 1972 referendum (and not long after it was made into a state to counter the growing chinese influence in the area).
Well i mean i dunno there is no info regarding okinawa but i do know tsushima and okinawa is occupied post ww2
It's probably a U.S. Commonwealth like the Marianas or a compact of free trade agreement like Palau, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands.
Yeah i hope in the future they touch on that issue as it would flesh out the lore
An scene from an american animated movie regarding the racial tension that arrose as a result of increasing hostility between the reich and the TA member (mostly the us). In this scene after a horrible shooting in several military bases and university the fbi pin pointed that several of these attack are funded by local businessman known only as Mr. Keely. The fbi suspicion of keely grow more and more as several photographic evidance from a local farmer showed that he was attending a secret klan meeting in cypress swamp just outside of greenville,mississipi. The fbi waste no time in arresting keely as the following day a dozen agents and local sheriffs swarmed his home and in the process uncovered a stash of illegal weapons which include stuff like M1919 lmg and M1 bazooka all of this and combined with keely was caught soliciting an underaged girl caused him to be given the death penalty for aiding a terror group and many more. (Credits to simple history for the image)
A Feldgendarmerie officer in Berlin overseeing slave labor, 1946. The influx of Soviet POWs needed for the construction of the Volkshalle required that a large contingent of military police to provide security. This decision was briefly opposed by the Berlin city government but their opposition ceased once it was made clear that military personnel would be needed to watch over such prisoners and that regular police forces on their own would not be sufficient.