Author: Joshua Robinson

Fallschirmjäger were the elite German paratrooper divisions from the Luftwaffe (aerial military branch), first formed in 1938, and known for pioneering large-scale airborne operations in WWII. They fought in famous battles across Europe—like Crete, Normandy, and Italy—and were highly trained, well-armed, and used as elite infantry, especially after airborne drops stopped in 1944 due to…

When the Germans entered Lviv (then Lwów) in June 1941, many locals, especially Ukrainian nationalists/some church leaders welcomed them as liberators from Soviet rule, hoping Germany would support Ukrainian independence after suffering the Holodomor genocide. The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1920 to 1933 by bolshevik/communist jews—seizing food, punishing resistance, and…