The boy's name was Joseph, and at the moment he was being tied to a firing post by U.S. military police, and although he was only 17 years old, all that awaited him was a shooting. In fact, he did not kill anyone, and he was sentenced to death mainly because the US military considered him a spy.
Although Joseph was a teenager, his status was unusual, and he was a member of the Hitler Youth.
The time goes back to February 1945, when U.S. forces had invaded the west of Germany. Joseph and his companions were also arranged by the Germans to monitor the movements of the Americans. So, one by one, they dressed in civilian clothes and dressed as ordinary civilians, and reported every move of the American army to the German army.
During one operation, Joseph hid in a foxhole to monitor the movements of the Americans, but was quickly captured by the Americans. Later, he was sentenced to death by a military tribunal.
Since then, the news of a 17-year-old teenager's death sentence soon appeared on the front page of the New York Times, causing an uproar in American public opinion, and many people questioned whether the verdict was reasonable, after all, Joseph was not yet an adult and did not kill anyone.
However, on June 1, 1945, Joseph was executed.
During World War II, the U.S. military often severely punished espionage. In addition, in the environment at that time, the US military did not care about Joseph's age at all, after all, the combat effectiveness of the members of the Hitler Youth was no different from that of ordinary soldiers.
Therefore, even if public opinion opposed, the US military still executed the teenager.
In 1939, Zhang Lingfu's original wife, Xing Fengying, led his own son to take a group photo with the daughter of his wife Wu Hailan, who was killed by Zhang Lingfu.
Zhang Lingfu had four wives in his lifetime, each of whom had a child, the eldest son Zhang Juli was born to his wife Xing Fengying; the eldest daughter Zhang Fangyun, the second wife Wu Hailansheng; the second daughter Zhang Huijun, the third wife Gao Yanyusheng; the second son Zhang Daoyu, the fourth wife Wang Yuling.
In 1948, at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, "Hideki Tojo", who was sentenced to hanging, was pronounced.
Hideki Tojo was the 40th Prime Minister of Japan and a die-hard subordinate of Emperor Hirohito, and was known as the "Razor General" in the Kwantung Army because of his arbitrariness and fierceness. At the scene of the execution, he changed his usual frenzied appearance, was frightened and trembled, and everyone present could see his fear, but no one sympathized with him.
In 1920, Zheng Yuxiu, the "first female killer" of the Republic of China, a precious old photograph. The person on his right does not need to be introduced too much, he is Chiang Kai-shek, who has already emerged.
At this time, Zheng Yuxiu was only about 30 years old. However, she had already done several major things vigorously, the first was the joint assassination of the regent Zaifeng with Wang Jingwei in 1910; the second was the assassination of Yuan Shikai in 1912, although it was not successful, but he organized a death squad in the same year and successfully killed the late Qing Dynasty heavy minister Liangbi.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Yuxiu's great name was thunderous, and she also won the title of "the first female assassin of the Republic of China".
A cultural traitor, an old photograph of Hu Lancheng in his later years, taken in the 1970s.
Hu Lancheng was born in 1906 and was also Zhang Ailing's first husband. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Hu Lancheng surrendered himself to the post of "deputy director of the Propaganda Department" of the Wang puppet regime, wrote for Wang Jingwei, and whitewashed Wang's traitorous behavior. In fact, in reality, Hu Lancheng not only betrayed the country and sought glory, but also became a man of morality and moral corruption, and even more so, he was selected as the "first scumbag" in the Republic of China period.
After the defeat and surrender of the Japanese army in 1945, Hu Lancheng fled to Japan through Hong Kong and died of heart failure in Tokyo on July 25, 1981.
In 1902, in Qingdao, Shandong, a woman fetching water by the river. A detail was found here, at that time, Qingdao women, no longer wrapped their feet into three inches of golden lotus-like pockets, but lost the foot wrapper, can walk normally like a man, and even carry water. This was rare in the era of feudal ritual constraints at that time.
In 1902, the Qing Dynasty bought the "Krupp cannon" from abroad, and several laborers were carrying it. German Krupp cannon, caliber 280 mm. The barrel is 11.2 meters long and weighs 44 tons. The most advanced cannon of the time fired 1-2 rounds per minute. The factory price is 80,000 taels of silver per cannon.
Krupp cannons are also known as "gold medal guerrillas", in the Sino-French War, the Qing army used Krupp cannons to kill the Commander-in-Chief of the French Navy "Lone Pull".
In 1941, Hu Shi, who was drinking afternoon tea, and You Jianwen's wife, Zhang Taizhen.
At this time, Hu Shi was the ambassador to the United States, and You Jianwen was the second secretary of the embassy at the time, following Hu Shi around and carrying out diplomatic work. You Jianwen's wife, Zhang Taizhen, was born in a family of diplomats from an early age and has been rendered by the family atmosphere since childhood. As the embassy in the United States, it is most appropriate to have such a young lady with a strong enough aura to play the role of hostess.