The Book Of Yesterday | May 1

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THE VICTORY OF THE AMERICANS IN THE BATTLE IN THE MANILA AREA

May 1, 1898

The year 1898 saw the gradual collapse of the Spanish Empire due to the revolutions in Cuba and the Philippines, and the rise of another superpower, the United States. The Filipinos first saw the ferocity of the American military on the first day of May in 1898. Nine steel warships of the US Asiatic Squadron led by Admiral George Dewey sailed into our country's oceans to face the enemy. weaker and smaller Spanish fleet docked in Manila Bay.

On April 30 the Spanish naval fleet in Manila led by Admiral Patricio Montojo was alerted to the arrival of the American fleet off the coast of Subic, so even though he knew his outclassed ships had no panama they kept watch. in Manila Bay, in the region covered by the province of Cavite, to watch for the American invasion.

It was past 5:40 a.m. when American ships began firing on the Spanish fleet, initiated by the flagship of the American fleet USS Olympia. After the Americans destroyed many of the Spanish ships, the Americans rested for a while to prepare for their next offensive while other Spanish ships retreated to their naval arsenal in Cavite. The American offensive continued as of 11:30 a.m., where they bombed shore batteries in Cavite, and they damaged the ships Reina Cristina and Castilla, the flagship of Admiral Montojo. At 12:45 p.m., the American fleet successfully destroyed the last Spanish fleet off the coast of Manila. The USS Petrel also sent a telegram to Admiral Dewey's flagship that the Spaniards had surrendered in battle. Almost all the Spanish ships were destroyed in the battle, and more than 400 learned Spaniards were killed, while hardly any of the American ships were damaged and ten American sailors were killed.

Admiral Dewey's victory marked the beginning of the fall of Spanish power in our country, and it paved the way for the beginning of the United States' entry into the Philippines.

REICH CHANCELLOR JOSEPH GOEBBELS COMMITS SUICIDE

May 1, 1945

On this day in 1945, the one-day reign of Germany’s appointed Chancellor Joseph Goebbels ended at the age of 47, when he also committed the “hero’s death” of his Führer Adolf Hitler, along with his 44- year old housewife for 15 years Johanna Maria Magdalena or Magda Goebbels. According to witnesses, the Goebbels went to the Reich Chancellery garden from the emergency exit of the Führerbunker and said Joseph shot his wife with a pistol and then shot himself. At Goebbels' orders, their bodies were burned with the remaining petroleum that was also used to burn the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun. While this was happening, the Victory Banner had been raised on top of the Reichstag building, signaling the Soviets taking over the entire city.

In the last days of the war, while Joseph Goebbels was with Hitler at the Fuhrerbunker, his wife Magda and their six children moved here. Magda even sent a final letter to her son to his first wife, who was a captive soldier in northern Africa, stating her purpose in her stay with Joseph Goebbels. He detailed here that he could not bear to let his family live in a world devoid of Nazi ideology, and apologized to his son for what he would do.

Before Hitler committed suicide, Magda begged Hitler to leave Berlin. When Joseph Goebbels became Chancellor, he ordered the sending of a message demanding a ceasefire to the Soviet High Command, but the Soviets insisted on the unconditional surrender of the Nazis in Berlin. When Goebbels' delegate, General Hans Krebs, announced this, Goebbels angrily said that he would not surrender for the rest of his life, and said that he would not devote his last time as Chancellor to signing Germany's surrender document. .

Meanwhile, Magda prepared to kill her children, with the help of an SS doctor, Ludwig Stumpfegger. They first gave them sleeping pills, and then Magda swallowed a cyanide capsule for her children one by one. When most of the occupants of the Führerbunker left, the couple prepared to commit suicide.

The Soviets investigating the Führerbunker found the burnt bodies of the Goebbels and their poisoned children, as well as two generals Hans Krebs and Wilhelm who committed suicide inside the bunker. Their bodies were first buried in an unspecified place after the war, and then re -exhumed and burned at the behest of the Soviets and then their ashes were dumped into the river Elbe.

From 1933, Joseph Goebbels served as Minister of Propaganda of the Nazi government, and became the district leader of Berlin. Of all those who became Hitler's followers, he was considered the most loyal follower, and he was almost at the forefront of the Nazi party's propaganda activities on behalf of Hitler. Until recently, he remained by his Führer’s side even though Goering and Himmler and other Nazi officials had turned their backs on him. Aside from Hitler, Goebbels can also be held responsible for violating the laws of war and for killing Jews, because of his propaganda propaganda.

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THE VICTORY BANNER

At the behest of Joseph Stalin, a Victory Banner would be hoisted in the city of Berlin, signaling the Soviets ’capture of the capital of Nazi Germany. Nine Victory Banners were quickly sewn and prepared for distribution to the 150th Rifle Corps of the 1st Belorussian Front scheduled to attack the Reichstag. At the command of the batallion commander of the 150th Rifle Corps, Stepan Neustroyev, Soviet soldiers Sergeants Meliton Kantaria, Mikhail Yegorov and Lieutenant Alexei Berest were given the responsibility of holding and lifting one of the prepared nine to the top of the Reichstag building. Victory Banner scheduled to be placed in such building. One is your red flag with the communism brand hammer and sickle and with Cyrillic texts written on the background of the flag which are: 150th Rifle Division, Order of Kutuzov 2nd class, Idritsa Division, 79th Rifle Corps, 3rd Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front. This is an indication of which army division raised that flag.

Kantaria, Yegorov and Berest carried the flag, and Kantaria and Yegorov climbed the large dome of the building, and then raised the Victory Banner on top of it. Many other Victory Banners were placed on the Reichstag but those of Kantaria, Yegorov and Berest were left standing. No photographs were taken of this historic raising as it was done at dawn on the first day of May, 1945. The Victory Banner was also lowered and hoisted on the Reichstag to be taken to Moscow and presented at the first Victory Parade, but the victims were wounded. person hoisted such a flag so it was not included in the parade. The Victory Banner was included in the Victory Day parade held on May 9, 1965.

Currently, on display at the Central Army Museum in Moscow, Russia is the exact copy of the Victory Banner raised on the Reichstag. That Victory Banner is included in the flags paraded whenever Victory Day is celebrated in Russia on the 9th of May.

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