TIL of Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat who during WW2 warned Danish Jews of their impending deportation and organised their rescue to Sweden, resulting in 95% of Jewish Danes fleeing successfully. by whatilearned November 5, 2021, 7:22 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
6 Comments TIL, in 1937, nearly 172,000 Koreans in the Soviet Far East were forcibily deported to unpopulated areas of Central Asia on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. It marked the precedent of the first Soviet ethnic deportation of an entire nationality. by whatilearned June 16, 2021, 12:54 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
whatilearned