KTVU News Director Amber Eikel has allegedly taken Somerville off the air until further notice, as Liberman reports. When the war ended, Rauter was still recovering in a German hospital, where he was arrested by the British. the German occupying forces. March 29, 1943 Germany lost a lot because of the armistice. 3 June 1939. Myron Taylor, delegate of the United States, speaks at the International Refugee Conference. American POWs carry their fellow prisoners during the death march from Bataan to Cabanatuan. A spokesperson for the station confirmed that Somerville, 63, who joined KTVU in 1991 and began co-anchoring the evening news in 2008, had been suspended pending further review. Its not clear when he might return. Like many other German soldiers, they were in a hurry to leave on Tuesday, 5 September 1944. Amsterdam. March 13, 1920 Harmful radiation doubled the number of victims in the months following the explosion. That very evening, his voice could be heard on German radio to let the people know that he was still alive. Last week, the San Jose Mercury News reported Somerville's exit was triggered by his desire to opine on the . Others felt that Germany was entitled to reclaim the Rhineland. Somerville was booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin after his arrest, then released with a citation to appear in court. Attichy, Frankrijk. Oudemanhuispoort, Amsterdam, 9 September 1938. As from 1 September, the Nazis no longer allowed Jewish children to attend school with non-Jewish children. More than 30,000 Jews headed the summons. Moscow was so far away from Germany, that it was very difficult to supply the troops with weapons and food. Among them were 4000 children. In 1943 in 1944, the United States launches attacks on the Japanese-occupied islands in the Pacific.During the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, the Americans achieve an important victory. According to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was not allowed to station an army there. Since September 1944, the Nazis had frequently shot people in public in retaliation for attacks by the resistance. It was directed by George Stevens and the screenplay was written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, who had also written the play. April 1959 The first Jewish refugees were admitted to the camp in October. He was held captive for a longer period. A text reading 1 billion marks was later stamped across this one thousand mark banknote from 15 December 1922 due to the rapid depreciation of the currency. They left their home the morning after the call-up. Soviet Union. He had frequently been in the Netherlands before on account of his company Opekta. Berlin, 1918. Otto Frank in the attic of the Secret Annex. It was the culmination of a two-week battle for the German capital. Putten. Photo collection: National Archives and Records Administration, USA. On December 30, 2021, Somerville was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after an automobile collision. In November 1943, Aktion Reinhard was terminated. What Occurred at Franklin. As part of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazis send special killing squads, called Einsatzgruppen, to the conquered parts of the Soviet Union. Barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau. They went up to the office on the first floor where the helpers of the people in hiding were working. By then, 70,000 people had been murdered. This marked the beginning of the occupation of the area between the Rhine and the Dutch border, from Aachen to Kleve. Some time later, Eichmann brought director Josef Lwenherz back from captivity and reopened the Congregation. As an SS man, he was responsible for the deportation of Jews to concentration and extermination camps. Interned boys at the garbage dump in the Sirengorengo internment camp looking for leftovers. In 1935, he was involved in drafting the Nuremberg Racial Laws, which officially turned German Jews into second-class citizens. Photographer: Maria Austria. They walked straight into a nightmare. You can see video of the Sunday 10 o'clock broadcast below, in which Somerville has difficulty reading from his teleprompter. Pearl Harbor. August 1942: Jews are not allowed to have telephones. Before long, other attempts were made to remove the democratically elected government. June 4, 2021 Updated: June 4, 2021 12:27 p.m. Venerated KTVU anchor Frank Somerville, days after an odd Sunday broadcast in which he can be seen on-air slurring his speech while reading a. This new country collaborated with Italy and Germany. Back in May of 2021, Frank was temporarily suspended after appearing drunk on air. Oct. 24, 1945 Atrocities: The Evidence op YouTube (duration: 5 minutes). Cambridge (Mass. Now that Anne was not coming back, she handed them to Otto. The next day, the details were worked out and on 7 May, the British and Canadians assumed authority over the Netherlands. Amsterdam, July 1945. 5 June 1942: Jews are not allowed to travel without prior permission. In order to fulfil their promise of peace, the communists had to stop fighting Germany. They were supported by rightwing and conservative groups. Over 150 civilians died instantly. Photo collection: Bundesarchiv Bildarchiv. This two-pronged attack was too much for Poland. Frank Somerville is a contributor to SFGATE and anchors the 5, 6, and 10 p.m. news on KTVU. Fritz was to share Annes room with her. After 12 days, the ship arrived at Haifa, Israel. Like many other Nazi officials, former Nazis, and followers, he went to work for the new German government. October 1935. It was run by Rudolf Dahmen von Buchholz, an NSB member and antisemite. May 15, 1919 Somerville was not involved in that flub. October 2, 1940. In reality, the army command had made mistakes and the German army was in no shape to keep on fighting. The trains stopped running until the end of the war. With his signature, the Netherlands officially surrendered. The damage to the surrounding residential area is visible. Nov. 10, 1944 The Netherlands was occupied by the German army. German soldiers were buried in a separate section of the cemetery. Jeruzalem. 31 May 1941: Jews are not allowed on the beach, to parks, swimming pools, or hotels. German soldier with camouflaged Panther V tank in Monte Cassino, April 1944. The others were sent on to the Drancy transit camp, just outside Paris, or to other camps in the countryside. U.S. Marines wading through the surf to the island. The Israeli ship the Negbah at the quay in Amsterdam. Already in 1939 they start deporting Jews to the area around Lublin. Winterswijk. Some wanted more influence and power, others wanted to prevent Hitler from destroying Germany in a senseless war. December 1938 Felsennest (Germany) or Wolfsschlucht (Belgium), June 1940. France, At the start of the First World War, Adolf Hitler volunteered for the German army with enthusiasm. In Vienna, Nazis forced Jews to scrub pro-Austrian slogans off the streets. Arthur Seyss-Inquart was an Austrian Nazi. Even if the blood his heart is pumping is way above the legal limit. Out of pity, soldiers gave their rations to the starving, sick prisoners, who gorged on the food and would sometimes grow sicker or even die of overfeeding. He has been one of the most important leaders of the persecution of the Jews in Europe. Dresden, after 14 February 1945. After a successful attack by the German army in the spring, the Allies counterattack, forcing Germany back to its old position.The United States joins the Allies and sends troops. Pfeffer had told his landlord that he would be hospitalised. Around 78,000 people were murdered in the camp, 59,000 of whom were Jews. He grew up in the Los Angeles area, went to UC Berkeley and has previously worked as a news reporter at USA Today and SFGATE and as a music writer at NPR. Feb. 16, 1934 The defeat was hard on the Dutch military and civilians. To obtain their cooperation, he sweet-talked the Dutch, but his tone was to become increasingly harsh over the course of the occupation. August 1939 The Fokker factory has been camouflaged by placing small blocks of houses on top of the buildings. From here, they are usually sent on to Westerbork. Only people who the Nazis could use as forced labourers were imprisoned. Please Support Our Work - The only thing that keeps us going is support from readers like you. The Somerville dispute, like the Petito case, has gone viral on social media, spurring outrage from people who see the national interest in the Wyoming homicide as an example of missing white woman syndrome while dismaying some at KTVU, who viewed Somervilles purported defiance of his boss decision as untenable. The Jews had no idea of what lay ahead. My diary really won't be much use to Messrs. Bolkestein or Gerbrandy (members of Dutch cabinet, ed.). She learned Dutch quickly and had no trouble making new friends. Collection: The Hague Municipal Archives/ photograph: Stapf Bilderdienst. Resistance fighter Pauline van Waasdijk with Jewish baby Ruth Michaelis, whom she has registered as her daughter under the name of Marijke van Waasdijk. When thousands of Jews fled Germany and Austria after the Kristallnacht, the pressure on the Dutch government increased. July 17, 1945 Stielau retracted his remarks and came to a settlement with Otto Frank. During the war, many resistance fighters had been murdered there by the Nazis. The atelier of Gerzon on Singel 347 (on the right), Amsterdam. Stoett looks at some Dutch bullet holes in an SS vehicle. The larger part of the south of the Netherlands was liberated in the autumn of 1944. A group of Jewish men with luggage at a fence in Transit camp Westerbork.1942-1943. The mushroom cloud of "Fat man", the plutonium bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki. 9 August 1914. Many of them were more dead than alive. There were eight judges, two from each of the allied countries: France, the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. From 15 July onwards, almost all Jews from the Netherlands were first taken to this camp and then sent on to German concentration and extermination camps. The Netherlands. MSNBC host Joy Reiddiscussed the Gabby Petito case on her showon September 20. SS men and other Germans forcibly cut off the beards of religious Jews, set fire to synagogues and Jewish homes, and forced Jews to do heavy labour. Rights: in the public domain. The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, took place between 31 July and 10 November 1917. During the Second World War, the Nazis murdered Jews from all over Europe. To prevent this from happening, social-democratic politician Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the republic that very afternoon. The news anchor has been off the air since he appeared to be suffering from an unknown medical episode during an evening news broadcast aired on Oakland FOX station KTVU (Channel 2). In 1921, members of a Freikorps murdered politician Matthias Erzberger, who had signed the armistice in 1918. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 7 December 1941. Although Otto knew that Edith had died, he did not know what had happened to Anne and Margot. He said the couple spend their "together time" at the gym and that the pair "encourage each otherto keep pushing.". The head was Henritte Pimentel, a member of the resistance. Amsterdam, 1942. Margot Frank at the Joods Lyceum, Amsterdam.December 1941. First from Vienna and later also from other places.In 1940, Roma and Sinti are deported from assembly camps in Germany to ghettos in occupied Poland.After the victory over France, Jews from southwest Germany are sent over the border there to camps in the south. Before long, more ghettos were being built. People had to arrange for their own food. The "Wilhelm Gustloff" in 1940: a hospital ship with wounded German soldiers from Norway in a German harbor. Thousands of Jews were taken from Vienna to the General Government (part of the occupied Polish region) as early as 1939. Germany did, after all, need experienced officials. The municipalities forwarded the registrations to the national population register in The Hague. A KTVU spokesperson later said. The mayor said that 'this statue is intended to preserve throughout the ages the memory of one of the lowest points in the history of our city and our people.'. But then, neither was he, and so the German troops were able to advance without much resistance. Some Jews wore them with pride, many others felt humiliated. All inhabitants of Putten had to report at Kerkplein square, in the middle of the village. It was not until the 1960s that the awareness of the plight of the Jews increased. July 18, 1925 They were interrogated one by one to find out whether they knew of any other addresses where people might be in hiding. Through her work for a Christian women's organisation, she knew many people. In late August 1942, the German army had begun a major attack to gain control of the Russian city of Stalingrad. There were banners and posters in the streets with the text: V=Victory because Germany wins for Europe on all fronts., Aug. 5, 1940 Gilbert Islands, 20-23 November 1943. The countries involved and the front lines. The street lights had to be switched off as well. The fact that this crisis resulted in a world war was due in part to the alliances between the various European countries. Jews at a train before departure to Auschwitz.Transit camp Westerbork, 1942-1943. Film collection: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive. Victor Kugler had been convicted of Judenbegnstigung (helping Jews). Moscow, 23 August 1939. The film won two more Oscars. Polish Jews expelled by Germany. However, the three of them retracted their promises the next day, and called in the police and the army. Producers cut the tag again, and that days coverage of the Petito case ran without tags in all KTVU broadcasts. Amonines, 4 January 1945. A showcase of "Der Strmer" magazine with the antisemitic slogan: "The Jews are our misfortune". The units summoned their victims to report at a central point or rounded them up in raids. On 5 July 1942, Margot received a call-up to report for labour camp in Germany. At Otto Frank's request, Miep and Jan Gies, Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler and Elly van Wijk-Voskuijl, the helpers of the people who lived in hiding in the Secret Annex, were honoured with this title as well. Since early 1941, Jews in the Netherlands had been confronted with new measures that interfered with their lives almost every week. Austria, April 1938. The SS officer responsible for the programme was Friedrich Wimmer, who described it as follows: This will ensure the rapid handling of any possible changes, such as relocations. (Der enge organisatorische Anschluss des Zentralregisters an die Bevolkingsboekhouding (Bevlkerungsbuchhaltung) in den Niederlanden sichert eine schnelle Erfassung aller eintretenden nderungen (z.B. Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels was one of the many people present at Opernplatz in Berlin. Their mother Edith was left behind in Auschwitz. Nuremberg. The Jewish Council had been established on 13 February 1941 at the insistence of the Nazis. SFGATE culture editor Dan Gentile contributed to this report. February 1943 Wounded refugees were cared for in a Jewish hospital. KTVU suspended veteran anchor Frank Somerville after the station news director nixed his proposal to add commentary about racial justice to coverage of the Gabrielle Gabby Petito homicide case and then learned that a shortened version of Somervilles verbal tag remained in a subsequent newscasts script, sources at the station told The Chronicle. Since 1946, he had been a policeman in Vienna, just like he had been before the Second World War. The razzia was Nazi punishment for fights that had occurred between Jews, antisemitic thugs, and the German police. One for 'Best Cinematography - Black and White' (William C. Mellor) and one for 'Best Art-Direction - Set Decoration, Black and White' (Lyle R. Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott, Stuart A. Reiss). In May, German paratroopers landed on Crete. When Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, an attempt was made to take the residents of the camp by train to the harbours to help them escape to England, but the plan failed. They were charged with crimes against humanity, ill-treatment of prisoners, and other abuse that had taken place in the camp. The International Youth Centre was enthusiastically run by educator and psychologist Henri van Praag, an acquaintance of Otto Franks. Collection: delpher.nl, The mushroom cloud after the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, 6 August 1945. Such violent attacks on Jews are called pogroms. German tanks and soldiers. Starting on 7 September, London was bombed for 57 consecutive days, and other English cities were hit hard as well. The Westerbork refugee camp under construction.Hooghalen, The Netherlands, 1939. Jan and Miep Gies are summoned by the court in Lbeck to appear as witnesses. They shot at strikers, and several people were wounded or killed. Afterwards, the French and English also resorted to the use of poison gas. The damage caused was soon repaired and the main American aircraft carriers were in other ports at the time of the attack. The men and women stand in separate rows.May 1944.Photo from a SS photo album, found in KZ Mittelbau-Dora after the liberation, by Auschwitz survivor Lili Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier. In 1947, the United Nations agreed to divide the Palestinian territory between the Jews and the Arabs. Instead, it is now the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, over which Germany has control.Hungary now annexes Karpatho-Ruthenia, which, like Slovakia, has seceded from Czechoslovakia. The concentration camps were also intended as warnings. The Nazis threatened to take Jews there who broke their rules. There he continued to paint; he even painted portraits of the camp commanders. Later, Kleiman was involved in Opekta and the founding of Pectacon. To his right, the German Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop.Berlin, November 25, 1936. Amsterdam. Despite bloody battles, no side can gain much ground. And so, Hss was tried in Poland. And before we get into the most recent happenings with Frank Somerville, I want to say this: Frank Somerville is not beyond redemption, and I hope he gets help. Otto Frank's exhibitor card for the "Beurs van de Dameskroniek" trade fair in Rotterdam. On 2 April, Otto left for Odessa in the Soviet Union (todays Ukraine). On the way back ammunition and fuel for the army are taken. It proved that the number of Jews fighting at the front was proportionate. Amsterdam. Amsterdam, 27 June 1945. Oct. 22, 1940 The first group of 905 Jews left for the camps on 10 January 1942. They took all the wood from the abandoned houses of deported Jews, which sometimes caused the houses to collapse. He refused to let it end in Game 7, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. Tram conductors and drivers on strike, Amsterdam, 25 February 1941. Moreover, Jews were not permitted to employ female citizens of German blood under the age of 45 as domestic workers. After 15 September 1935, Photo collection: Deutsches Historisches Museum. He felt that the Amsterdam police was better equipped for tracking Jews than the German authorities, because the locals knew the city better. However, the news of the arrival of the Allied Forces was premature. His suspension marks the second time he has left the air this year. With his contract up in January, Somerville said he figures that means theyre not going to re-sign me.. Mein Kampf, Volumes 1 and 2. On top of that, they also had to make reparations to France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, and Great Britain. On 18 September, Eindhoven was liberated by American and British troops as part of Operation Market Garden. Propaganda film about the attack on the Philips factories in Eindhoven. Unlike the time when he slurred his words on air, there is no ambiguity, Frank was drunk as fuck. In the weeks that followed, other parts of the south of the Netherlands were liberated. The reason for the raid was an attack by a resistance group on Wehrmacht officers. On 9 and 10 November 1938, Nazis throughout Germany, Austria, and Sudetenland (in the current Czech Republic) took action against Jews. Soldiers with artillery. Amsterdam, 18 May 1942. The action had been secretly prepared by the Nazis. On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Himmler then assumed a false identity. Photo collection: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C, courtesy of Panstwowe Muzeum na Majdanku. The Nazis also forced the Jewish Council to take away the Sperre of a large number of Jews and to select them for transport to Westerbork. Concentratiekamp Bergen-Belsen, 17/18 april 1945. Back in May of 2021, Frank was temporarily suspended after appearing drunk on air. Splno Krajeskie (Poland), 1 September 1939. 24 April 1942: Most Jewish butchers are closed down. Antwerp, 17 June 1939. German troops invaded the country a day earlier.As a result of the Munich Agreement on September 30, 1938, Germany annexes the Sudetenland, an area in Czechoslovakia where many Germans live.In November Hungary annexes parts of Slovakia where mainly Hungarians live. The slogan First food - then rent is painted on the wall in the background. Atlantic Ocean, 18 March 1917. The communists were supported by the Dutch Red Aid, a communist organisation that helped thousands of people. The next day, the Soviet Union indicated that they did not accept surrender. I would give anything to work there. Moreover, by occupying the Rhineland, he had also taken away Frances strategic advantage, and that would come in handy in a new war. The cold was not the only problem, though. Not all top Nazis could be tried. On 30 April 1945, Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide. 26 December 1944. On Sunday, 20 June 1943, the Nazis held a major raid in Amsterdam. March 4, 1939 They visit Slovakia to enact the Jewish Laws.Bratislava, 2-8 September 1941. Paratroopers and soldiers who had landed on water tried to conquer the bridges. August 1914. Out of anger at what the Allied soldiers had come across in concentration camps and other places, they forced the population to rebury dead concentration camp prisoners and victims of executions, or to walk past the thousands of bodies of dead prisoners to make them realise what the Nazi regime had done. In the west, Italy took the south of Slovenia and a strip along the Adriatic coast. On 3 February, on the orders of the Nazis, the Dutch authorities announced that all Jews must register with their municipality as Jews or 'bastard Jews'. When the smoke cleared, close to 80,000 people were homeless and around 850 people had died. The Soviet prisoners of war were offered a way out of captivity by cooperating with the SS as Hilfswilligen (relief troops). During the first eight years after the Second World War, almost 4500 Jews left the Netherlands. They were not allowed to leave the ghettos. Queen Wilhelmina during a surprise visit to the Princess Irene Brigade (Dutch army unit) in England.Wolverhampton, May 1942. The Van Pels family were given two rooms on the second floor of the Secret Annex to use. A total of 3,300,000 Soviet prisoners of war succumbed. Shortly after the attempt, hundreds of arrests were made. The Sixth army had been virtually annihilated. Its goal was to get the Jews to leave the country as soon as possible and to take their money before they went. A week after the Frank family went into hiding, Hermann and Auguste van Pels, and their son Peter, joined them in the hiding place. In December 1917, Lenin sent his closest collaborator, Leon Trotsky, to Brest-Litovsk (in modern-day Belarus) to negotiate with the Germans. San Francisco. They planned to advance to the Philippines and to oust the Japanese army from the islands. Their bodies are temporarily stored in this church. In gratitude for their role in the liberation, the Dutch government has given the land on permanent loan to the United States. By then, people from different parts of the world were already interested in visiting the Secret Annex where Anne Frank had lived in hiding. The money of wealthy Jews was used to pay for the emigration of poor Jews. Monte Cassino, May 1944. They had to endure the cruel treatment by the camp leadership and their disciples. Most of them used the Netherlands as a stopover and travelled on to other countries. On 5 October 1916, he was wounded by shrapnel. Otto Frank at the Kloveniersburgwal, Amsterdam, circa 1959. Still, Germany had to change. On 15 January, members of a Freikorps arrest the two leaders of the uprising, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg, and assaulted and murdered them. Advertisement for an Opekta presentation in Heerlen on 4 July 1933. April 17, 1942 She is a friend and fellow prisoner of concentration camp Bergen-Belsen and declared that Anne and Margot died in February-March of 1945 in Bergen-Belsen. It was fenced off using barbed wire and the camp was now called a Police Transit Camp (Polizeiliches Durchgangslager). 15 april 1945. The Jewish Affairs Office handled the cases of Jews who had violated anti-Jewish measures or ordinary laws, and tracked down Jewish people in hiding. With 1,011 other Jews, they were packed tightly in closed goods carriages. The French government and many Parisians had already fled the city by then. Heintje, the wife, was gassed in April 1944. Hermann and Otto had prepared the hiding place together with their colleagues Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman. Amsterdam Mayor Willem de Vlugt is standing beside him. He wanted to conquer important bridges in the east of the Netherlands, so that the Allied Forces could cross the rivers to move into Germany.
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