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Second World War: Germans
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Friedrich Engel, a former Nazi SS officer involved in the massacre of Italian prisoners in World War II, has died. He was 97. Engel died overnight into Feb. 5, said his wife, Else. She did not give a cause of death or say where he had died. In 2002, a German court convicted Engel of 59 counts of murder and handed him a suspended seven-year term for the 1944 shootings in a mountain pass near the Italian city of Genoa.
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The Karabiner (carbine), or Kar 98K, was the standard rifle of the German Army in World War II. It owed its legacy to the original bolt-action rifle of the German Army used in World War 1, known as the Gewehr 98, though the Kar 98K was designed to be a little shorter in length.
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The scenario book Distant Oceans added more scenarios using Bomb Alley with parts of other Second World War at Sea series game as well. There’s ... considerable background on that German helicopter carrier and the Italian aircraft carriers, with added scenarios for their use.
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As the war raged Allied air crews bombed Germany, not just to destroy armies and production, but to leave such terror in German hearts that there would be no World War Three caused by them. Today some historians and politicians look back and call these actions war crimes.
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The court said membership in the Waffen SS by itself was not a valid reason for Germany to strip a World War II veteran of benefits. It sent the case back to a lower court.
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