Forwarded from Vault of Secrets - Unpopular History (M Himself)
The Destruction of Magdeburg in the Thirty-Years War
"Von Falckenberg was shot, and fires were kindled in different quarters; then indeed it was all over with the city, and further resistance was useless. Nevertheless some of the soldiers and citizens did try to make a stand here and there, but the imperial troops kept bringing on more and more forces... they got the Krockenthor open and let in the whole imperial army and the forces of the Catholic League: Hungarians, Croats, Poles, Walloons, Italians, Spaniards, French, North and South Germans... Then was there naught but beating and burning, plundering, torture, and murder... thousands of innocent men, women, and children, in the midst of a horrible din of heartrending shrieks and cries, were tortured and put to death in so cruel and shameful a manner that no words would suffice to describe, nor no tears to bewail it... the remnant of its citizens, with their wives and children, were taken prisoners..." (Otto von Guericke, 1631)
"Von Falckenberg was shot, and fires were kindled in different quarters; then indeed it was all over with the city, and further resistance was useless. Nevertheless some of the soldiers and citizens did try to make a stand here and there, but the imperial troops kept bringing on more and more forces... they got the Krockenthor open and let in the whole imperial army and the forces of the Catholic League: Hungarians, Croats, Poles, Walloons, Italians, Spaniards, French, North and South Germans... Then was there naught but beating and burning, plundering, torture, and murder... thousands of innocent men, women, and children, in the midst of a horrible din of heartrending shrieks and cries, were tortured and put to death in so cruel and shameful a manner that no words would suffice to describe, nor no tears to bewail it... the remnant of its citizens, with their wives and children, were taken prisoners..." (Otto von Guericke, 1631)
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Israeli tour guide forces German Christian figure to remove his cross, claiming it's inappropriate to have it displayed near the so-called sacred Jewish wall.
This happened in the presence of a German Minister.
This happened in the presence of a German Minister.
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