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From 4:01 to 5:32 of the trailer of a new movie on the defense of Brest Fortress , you can see that my initial claim in this thread on the German atrocities at Brest Fortress posted 5 years ago is possibly true. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07yKGsI5bwQ http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=...

Have any forum members visited the Seelow Heights museum/memorial? I ask because I'm interested to know what documentary material (chiefly first-hand accounts) it possesses. The museum's own website is a bit vague: http://www.gedenkstaette-seelower-hoehen.de/ And there's no online catalogue :( Fina...

This evening I watched a special documentary on the Turkish Brigade during and after the Korean War. It was a very impressive documentary. For this documentary, a Turkish military historian provided a two-hour long color footage of the Turkish brigade during the summer of 1951. I didn't know that s...

The SBS documentary 'South Korean POWs transferred to the Soviet Union-The Truth of Transfer' (소련으로 끌려간 국군 포로-그 이송설의 진실) Footage 1 Footage 2 Footage 3 Footage 4 Footage 5 Footage 6 Footage 7 Footage 8 Footage 9 Footage 10 Footage 11 Footage 12 Footage 13 Footage 14 Footage 15 Footage 16 Footage 17 F...

Underlying evidence showing that 20,000 Korean POWS were deported to the USSR is somewhat scanty. However, for what it's worth, personnel from the United States Department of Defense did interview a retired Soviet officer in 1992, one Lieutenant General Kan San Kho, who claimed to have participated...

This evening I watched a special documentary on the Turkish Brigade during and after the Korean War. It was a very impressive documentary. For this documentary, a Turkish military historian provided a two-hour long color footage of the Turkish brigade during the summer of 1951. I didn't know that su...

PFLB wrote:Do they suggest what the motive was? Did the USSR just want them for forced labour?

It's not clear. Nobody knows what happened to them in Siberia. One thing evident is that all of them was eliminated at Soviet hands.

Is it also possible that some may have ended up in China? It's possible. The SBS documentary 'South Korean POWs deported into the Soviet Union-The Truth of Deportation' ( 소련으로 끌려간 국군 포로-그 이송설의 진실 ) reported that more than 20,000 South Korean POWs were reported into the Soviet Union. If almost all t...

source: Turkish Daily "Haber Türk" dated April 29th 2010 p.16 They met after 60 years. Korean lady Sin Sen Nim met her step father who found her at a ruined and burned village 60 years later. NCO Master Sergeant Süleyman Dilbirliği from Turkish Brigade found her in a burned and ruined dwelling cryi...

The North Koreans boasted that they and CFC captured 80,000 South Korean and UN Forces soldiers, but they repatriated just 8,348 South Korean and 5,126 UN forces POWs. If their initial assertion is true, a large number of these POWs might have been sent to Siberia... ...According to Kang Sang-Ho (강...

American actresses on a snow-covered airfield of Pusan who arrived on Christmas Eve in 1951 to hold a performance for soldiers at the front. This photo was made public by a Korean military collector Yi Joon-Gyu (이준규) today, the 60th anniversary of the Korean War.

According to 'The Korean War We Witnessed' ('우리가 본 한국전쟁') by Lim In-Shik (임인식), Randolph Churchill participated in the Battle of Dabudong ( 다부동 전투 ) as a war correspondent in July 1950. Is this true? Randolph Churchill and Lim In-Shik photographed together near Dabudong in August 1950. This photo w...

Again, it's not just probable but an absolute fact that there were Soviet AA divisions stationed in NK. They belonged to the Protivo-Vozdushnaya Oborona (PVO), the separate Soviet air defense service. Declassified Soviet archival material describes their operations in some detail. You're right. I'v...

This morning I went to our local bookshop and found a new Chinese book on this event named "the Chinese-Oriental Railroad and the Chinese-Oriental Railroad Inccident"(中东路与中东路事件). This book was published in March 2010. This book published in mainland China this year crticizes the Soviet invasion in ...

A good Taiwanese link on the Chinese-Oriental Railroad Inccident ( 中東路事件 ) The Battle of Manchouli on November 7 where Wei Chang-Lin was killed ...□ 滿洲里戰役：滿洲里位于中東鐵路最西端，是通往蘇聯和外蒙的必經之地。11月7日，蘇軍幵始轟炸和圍攻滿洲里。東北軍第15旅英勇還擊，堅守陣地。扎賚諾爾戰役打響后，第15旅企圖突圍東援第17旅，但未成功。不久，攻占扎賚諾爾的蘇軍轉向西進，第15旅陷入重重包圍之中。東北軍拼死抗爭，傷亡日增﹔在孤立無援、彈盡...