The Book Of Yesterday | May 23
THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE IN THE CITY OF MARAWI
May 23, 2017
Today is four years since clashes erupted between our military forces and the militant group Maute, supported by the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in the city of Marawi, capital of Lanao del Sur. At around 2 p.m., Maute terrorists attacked military bases and occupied several buildings there by force, including the municipality, Mindanao State University, a hospital and the city jail, and then set fire to the churches and schools run by a congregation of Christians in the city. There were also reports from the military that the Maute had foreign members who were possibly members of ISIS, and that Maute intended to take the entire city as ISIS territory in Lanao del Sur. Military forces, along with Special Action Forces units of the PNP, Philippine Marines, and the Philippine Air Force, flocked to defend the city from terrorist occupation. Civilians living in the city were also evacuated, but a few were left in their homes, who were otherwise surrounded by the enemy were abducted, and worse, killed by the Maute.
During the five -month offensive in Marawi, air strikes by our air force pulverized every building possibly where Maute was located, and our soldiers and terrorists exchanged gunfire on every street and building. Some units of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) also helped in some way on the side of our soldiers, and also extended military assistance in the fight to the United States, China, Russia and Australia.
On the day the fighting began in Marawi, President Rodrigo Duterte suddenly returned home from his visit to Russia when he learned of the unrest there, and he declared martial law throughout the city and throughout Mindanao. Fighting continued between the two camps, while civilians continued to be trapped in the middle of the gunfire. On October 16, the military reportedly killed Abu Sayyaf commander and so-called emir of Maute Isnilon Hapilon, and brothers Abdullah and Omar Maute, who were the instigators of the unrest in Marawi. The next day, President Duterte declared the city free from the Mautes, but several other small clashes ensued.
As many as 168 soldiers who fought in Marawi were killed, while 972 Maute militants were killed, including Hapilon and the Maute brothers, and unfortunately 87 civilians were killed in the middle of the fighting. While the victory in Marawi was celebrated, the entire city was left devastated and thousands of families were left homeless, and to this day the reconstruction of the city continues and the survivors of the five-month conflict in Marawi continue to rise.
SCHUTZSTAFFEL LEADER HEINRICH HIMMLER COMMITS SUICIDE
May 23, 1945
The dreaded Schutzstaffel (SS) chief Heinrich Luitpold Himmler, one of the pioneers of Nazi Germany’s bloody policy against Jews and other races, was one of the top Nazi party officials to flee from justice. , when he committed suicide at the age of 44 the same day Admiral Karl Doenitz’s government was dissolved in Flensburg, Germany. British soldiers in Lüneberg, northern Germany caught Himmler, who was trying to flee with other refugees using a fake name. His identity was verified using his own papers. When Himmler was in British custody he admitted his identity, and while he was under interrogation he bit a cyanide pill hidden inside his mouth. Himmler died 15 minutes later, and was buried in an unspecified grave.
Heinrich Himmler was the son of a civil servant in Bavaria, Germany who was born on October 7, 1900 and in 1917 Himmler became an army reservist but did not join the battle. He was one of the first members of the Nazi party, as he studied agronomy, and became a member of the Storm Troopers (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS). He was among the Nazi coups against the Bavarian government in November 1923. In 1929 he became chief of the SS, and became one of Hitler's close allies.
He also led the police, secret state police or the Gestapo, and promoted cult-like ideologies in the SS. Himmler later, along with another high -ranking SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, led the systematic liquidation of Jews, prisoners of war, and other races, at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942. He also became leader of military branch of the SS, the Waffen-SS, which included the German army in its campaigns, and oversaw the established German concentration camps and extermination centers in areas occupied by Nazi Germany.
Millions of Jews, prisoners of war and other races died of his bloody policies. When the war ended and Germany was defeated, Himmler was assigned to command German troops in northern Germany, but he secretly negotiated with the Americans to surrender. Hitler angered this so he ordered the removal of Himmler from all its positions in government, which President Doenitz implemented. Forsaken and rejected by the former sex because of his infidelity, Himmler was forced to flee Germany and his sins, but he eventually ended his life at his own hands.
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NAZI GOVERNMENT IN FLENSBURG GERMANY
May 23, 1945
On this day in 1945, a few days after the end of the war in Europe, the last Nazi government established in the town of Flensburg, Germany, finally came to an end. British forces arrived in Flensburg in northern Germany and arrested members of the Nazi government in the town, including President -elect Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, and several members of the government's cabinet, including Albert Speer. Minister of Industry and Production.
After signing the document of Germany's surrender to the war, on behalf of President Doenitz's government, they still held a position in the government of General Alfred Jodl, who was appointed head of the Armed Forces High Command after the capture of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel. General Jodl was also captured along with President Doenitz but the designated commander of the navy or Kriegsmarine, Admiral Hans Georg Friedburg and Field Marshal Robert Ritter von Greim of the Luftwaffe or air force, committed suicide before they were captured by the British. With the capture of President Doenitz the Nazi government in Germany finally came to an end, and it was formally ended by Allies forces on 5 June of the same year. Arrested members of the Nazi government in Flensburg were considered prisoners of war.
Former Grand Admiral Doenitz, Speer and General Jodl were among senior Nazi party officials indicted in the Nuremberg Trials in November 1945 for their war crimes, for which Doenitz and Speer were sentenced to long years in prison, but hanged. Generals Jodl and Keitel, and nine other Nazis.
Before Adolf Hitler's suicide he appointed Grand Admiral Doenitz as President of Germany, and Joseph Goebbels as Prime Minister, but when Goebbels also committed suicide, Doenitz was left in charge of the government almost without power. He moved to Flensburg the capital of his government, which still had control over small areas in Europe still held by the Germans.
Even though the war ended on May 9, the Western Allies still allowed Doenitz's government to remain in power until May 23, even though it no longer had direct control over the administration and the military, and revoked the any diplomatic relations of countries with Germany.
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