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  2. Alfred Irving (former slave) - Wikipedia

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    Alex Skrobarcek and his daughter, Susie, were indicted in Laredo, Texas, on October 2, 1942, for holding Irving in slavery [1] for five years. [3] The pair were arrested at their secluded farm by representatives of the sheriff's office, the traffic police, and the FBI. The filed police report stated that Skrobarceks kept Irving shackled in ...

  3. Beeville, Texas - Wikipedia

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    A contemporary newspaper article reporting on the Alfred Irving case (October 2, 1942 - The Brownsville Herald) In September 1942, Alfred Irving, who is believed to be one of the final chattel slaves in the United States, was freed at a farm near Beeville. Alex L. Skrobarcek and his daughter, Susie, were indicted by a federal grand jury in ...

  4. German Concentration Camps Factual Survey - Wikipedia

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    The result was that what had been envisioned originally as a joint project became two separate films: the British German Concentration Camps Factual Survey, which was not released, and Death Mills, directed by Billy Wilder, titled Die Todesmühlen in its German-language version, which had a different director and film editor. Death Mills (1945)

  5. Posen speeches - Wikipedia

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    In the spring of 1943, Sonderaktion 1005 was in full operation, the exhumation and incineration of those murdered by the Einsatzgruppen across the whole Eastern Front, whose death toll had so far reached 1.8 million Jews. Himmler ordered the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland on 11 June, and all Soviet ones on 21 June.

  6. List of exonerated death row inmates - Wikipedia

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    In March 2023, the Supreme Court of India freed Niranaram Chetanram Chaudhary after he spent 28 years, six months and 23 days in custody, and was freed from Nagpur jail. At the time of conviction, Chaudhary was 12 years and six months. As per Indian laws, death sentence or any sentence more than three years cannot be awarded to a juvenile. [5]

  7. Commando Order - Wikipedia

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    British commandos during Operation Archery on Vågsøy island, Norway, 1941. The Commando Order cited alleged violations of the Geneva Conventions by Allied commandos as justification, following incidents at the recent Dieppe Raid and on a small raid on the Channel Island of Sark by the Small Scale Raiding Force, with some men of No. 12 Commando.

  8. Mare Noi, An Elephant That Endured Cruelty For 41 Years, Is ...

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    Elephants are majestic, smart, and warm animals that people continue to take advantage of. In Thailand, due to the tourism and logging industry, the elephant population has severely dropped, and ...

  9. Sylvester Magee - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] Alfred P. Andrews, founder of the Jackson Civil War Round Table and its president elect for 1965–66, helped Magee be classified as a Civil War veteran although no service records for him could be found. In March 1966, when Magee was suffering from pneumonia, Andrews helped him obtain treatment from the Mississippi Veterans Hospital. [5]