Forced to remove shoes: “In the closing days of the Second World War, members of the Arrow Cross Party, the Nazis of Hungary, rounded up Jews and marched them to the Danube. They stripped them of their clothes and had them step out of their shoes on the embankment, where they were shot and tossed into the river. Sixty pairs of iron shoes now dot the site where the Jews were murdered, a silent prayer for the dead. ”
(Via Flickr.)
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Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted war crimes suspect, has been arrested in Serbia. Karadzic was located and arrested by Serbian security officers and brought to the investigative judge of the War Crimes Court in Belgrade.
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Who is Radovan Karadzic (from the Encyclopedia Of Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity):
[JUNE 19, 1945–]
Leader of the Serbian [...]
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