Name that historical figure!

**General Brewster** · July 07, 2020, 10:32 AM

**Abdülmecid I** · July 07, 2020, 11:00 AM

Certain someone is reading about the Mexican expedition!

It's general Forey, one of Napoleon's III marshals that was lucky enough not to participate in the war against Prussia and her satellites.

**General Brewster** · July 07, 2020, 11:58 AM

Haha, always one to see the patterns my friend. I was indeed reading some material on it

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You have the floor.

**Abdülmecid I** · July 07, 2020, 12:11 PM

Thanks, mate! For the next one, let's take my avatar.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

He's rather obscure, so I'll give you some hints. Despite his long career in diplomacy and politics (served twice as a Minister of Foreign Affairs), he's mainly known for his monocle and for getting executed by a firing squad.

**General Brewster** · July 07, 2020, 12:27 PM

Oh but I know who that is.. but I won't tell

**skh1** · July 09, 2020, 05:34 PM

Georgios Baltatzis, of whom I know nothing. As an aside, if one googles for images of "firing squad" anded with "foreign minister", one gets either Count Galeazzo Ciano (makes sense, I guess) or various officials from North Korea.

**Abdülmecid I** · July 10, 2020, 02:24 PM

Great job, guys! It's indeed Mr. Baltatzis, who was executed together with one general and four other politicians (including the man on his left, Prime-Minister Demetrios Gounaris), following the disastrous conclusion of the Turkish War of Independence for the Greeks. The defeated army retreated from Anatolia and overthrew the democratically elected government, while also sentencing to death her most notable officials, in order to get itself absolved from any responsibility. When I read about the affair, it reminded me a lot of the repercussions of the battle of Annual, where the Spanish army also installed a military dictatorship in almost identical circumstances (following a military catastrophe).

**skh1** · July 10, 2020, 02:42 PM

Ευχαριστώ

Who is this?

**King Athelstan** · July 15, 2020, 10:38 AM

Benjamin Ferencz

**skh1** · July 15, 2020, 12:14 PM

Correct!
Benjamin Berell Ferencz. Born on March 11, 1920 in Transylvania, he is still with us today at the age of 100.

He is the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials. He brought to trial 22 commanders of the Einsatzgruppen. In their years of operation between 1941 and 1945, it is estimated that the Einsatzgruppen with their foreign auxilieries were responsible for more than 2 million murders. All 22 were found guilty. 13 were sentenced to death. 4 were executed.

But rather than presume to speak for Mr. Ferencz, here is Mr. Ferencz speaking for himself:

And …

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