YOUTH CITY OR THE CURRENT PHILIPPINE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER INTRODUCED

April 29, 1980

Today is the 41st birthday of the Philippine Children's Medical Center or formerly known as the City of Youth. This children's hospital was inaugurated in a simple ceremony on this day in 1980 in Quezon city, attended by former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos and Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom.

It was opened with the effect of Proclamation No. 1631 signed by former President Ferdinand Marcos on August 10, 1979. The existence and construction of a children's hospital like this in our country is a genius concept of Dra. Fe del Mundo, a Filipino pediatrician and pediatrician. On June 23 of the same year, the operation of this hospital began, and under the administration of former President Corazon Aquino, the name of this hospital was renamed the Philippine Children's Medical Center on January 12, 1987 with the effect of Memorandum Order no. 2.

PCMC’s operation began with 47 licensed pediatricians, pediatric surgeons practicing Ambulatory, In-Patient Care and Surgical and Critical Care. In 1985, it expanded its operations to patient care services, Residency and Fellowship training, and to continuing medical education. Also added to the Pediatric specialization branch are Neonatology, Pulmonology, Nephrology, Cardiology, Hematology, and Allergology under the Department of Pediatric Medicine, as well as Anesthesia under the Department of Pediatric Surgery.

PCMC is also a government-owned and controlled corporation under the Department of Health.

THE OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUTAL FOR THE FAR EAST

April 29, 1946

As was done with the accused Nazi officials in the Nuremberg Trials, Japanese officials involved in various war crimes and other violations of the law of war were also placed in an international war crimes tribunal, after Japan surrendered. . On this day in 1945, the International Military Tribunal in the Far East officially opened, held inside the War Ministry office in the city of Tokyo, Japan.

Australia, New Zealand, Canada, China, France, India, The Netherlands, the Philippines, the Soviet Union, the United States and the United States have provided judges, lawyers and prosecutors to focus on the prosecution and prosecution of the defendants. Kingdom. Japanese lawyers were also provided to serve as prosecutors and advocates. As many as 28 Japanese military and government officials were indicted in the trial to face charges such as crimes against peace, aggressive warfare, violation of the laws of war and crimes against humanity. These include occupation and invasion of sovereignty in Asia-Pacific countries, killing of surrendered prisoners of war, killing of civilians, launching and engaging in aggressive warfare. Among those tried here was former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, while the accused Shumei Okawa was not in his mental capacity to join the trial, while two others died during the trial, Yosuke Matsukoa and Osami Nagano.

The trial of the other defendants ended on November 12, 1946 and the verdict for their crimes was read to the Japanese defendants. Seven defendants were sentenced to be hanged, including Hideki Tojo, while 16 defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment, including the signer of Japan's surrender document to the war General Yoshijiro Umezu, and 13 of those 16 were given of parole from 1954 to 1956. General Douglas MacArthur, who presided over the trial of the Japanese defendants, approved the sentences against them.

Thousands of other Japanese defendants were placed in separate war crimes trials conducted by countries that also participated in the War Crimes Trial in Tokyo, where 17 Japanese were tried in our own court. As with the Nuremberg trial, the Tokyo Military Tribunal received praise and criticism.

AMERICANS RELEASED NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP DACHAU

April 29, 1945

Simultaneously with the Soviet siege of the city of Berlin, American forces entered and liberated the first Nazi concentration camp, Dachau, built on this day in 1945.

Led by the 45th Infantry Division of the 7th U.S. Army the Dachau gate was destroyed and there was a brief encounter between the Americans and SS guards inside the camp. After that, other guards surrendered and the Americans released more than 30,000 dying inmates left inside the camp, but what was even more depressing for the Americans was the piles of decomposing corpses of the dead inmates inside the camps. railway carts. The Americans were devastated by the deplorable condition of the camp, so outraged at what they saw they shot their subdued SS guards numbering 30 to 50. They also forcibly invited German civilians to Dachau for witness the traces of the Nazi regime’s crime and bury as many as 9,000 corpses scattered inside the camp.

Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp built in Germany in 1933, located a few kilometers away from the city of Munich. It was originally built for Hitler’s political opponents, such as the communists, Nazi rival parties, and other political dissents. Over the years, members of Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Gypsies, and ordinary criminals were also imprisoned here. More importantly, Jews were also counted among those imprisoned in Dachau, especially Jews arrested after Kristallnacht in 1938. All prisoners in Dachau were subjected to inhumane treatment by the Nazis, such as forced labor, and had others starved to death, and worst of all, they were used as lab animals in sadistic experiments. Over the years as many as 31,000 people were killed by the Nazis inside Dachau during its more than a decade of operation from more than 160,000 prisoners held here, and some were transferred to other concentration camps. As the Americans advanced to Munich many of the prisoners in Dachau were forcibly evacuated to another camp, and the SS almost abandoned such camp.

After the war, Dachau was still used as a hotbed by accused SS officers who became its commander, and after also being used as an American military base the camp was closed in 1960. It is currently a Holocaust Memorial Site. Dachau concentration camp.

ADOLF HITLER AND EVA BRAUN MARRIED

April 29, 1945

After 15 years of togetherness of Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, Hitler also gave Braun what he had most longed for. This was despite Hitler’s ban on Eva accompanying him to his underground bunker in Berlin, and as a sign of Eva’s loyalty to him. Early on this day in 1945, a simple single-breasted ceremony was performed by 56-year-old Hitler and 33-year-old Eva Braun. The Minister of Propaganda and loyal follower of Hitler Joseph Goebbels prepared the simple wedding ceremony, and he also served as the best man to his Fuhrer. In front of a Nazi lawyer, both swore that they were of pure Aryan descent and had no inherited disease. They were immediately declared married, and both signed a document validating their marriage; when Eva signed, she erased the letter B she had written and changed it to Hitler. Witnessing this wedding were the Reichsleiter of the Nazi party Martin Bormann, Goebbels, General Hans Krebs and Wilhelm Burgdorf. They also had a simple breakfast banquet, but Hitler had to go back to the dictation of his last will and political will, which he began to dictate to his private secretary Traudl Junge a few hours before his wedding.

In his political will, he once again blamed the Jews for Germany’s defeat in the war, and his political views since his involvement in the First World War. Hitler also stated in his political will his marriage to Eva and their intention to commit suicide, and he again thanked the German people for their loyalty to him, and urged them to fight to the end. He also declared Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler traitors to the state, and removed them from all government positions, and appointed Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz as his successor as President of Germany, and his faithful follower. that Joseph Goebbels as Chancellor, and dictated the new government cabinets. Hitler signed his last will and testament, and they also signed Bormann and General Krebs.

A day after the wedding and the signing of his last will, the Hitler couple committed suicide inside the Fuhrerbunker.

References:

• https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/adolf-and-eva-marry

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_will_and_testament_of_Adolf_Hitler

• https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/dachau-liberated

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Children%27s_Medical_Center

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