Righteous among the Nations is the term used by State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during The Holocaust in order to save Jews from extermination by the German Nazis. Number of awards (medals) for citizens of countries (non Jews): POLAND 6066 , NETHERLANDS 4863 , FRANCE 2833. The rest of countries on: www.yadvashem.org Note about Poland: In German-occupied Poland, all household members were punished by death if a Jew were found concealed in their home or property, death was a punishment for providing any aid to Jew etc. giving bread or water to passing Jews. This was the most severe law enforced by Hitler in occupied Europe. Nazi Germans made death camp Auschwitz Birkenau in the area of Poland. In this camp Nazi Germans killed civilians 960 000 Jews and 75 000 Poles. Only part of criminals were punished after war by Americans, Poles and Jews. Most well known Righteous: Irena Sendler saved 2500 Jews (POLAND), Oskar Schindler (GERMANY) saved 1200 Jews. 
Photo:Jews in Kutno, Poland during German occupation 1939. Author: Hugo Jaeger.

Jews and Their Rescuers.

An often-overlooked Home Guard weapon, and does not look up to much.  However, the Flame Fougasse, or simply Fougasse, was potentially one of the most deadly weapons deployed by the UK Home Guard.  Basically, this consisted of a drum of inflammable liquid, usually thickened in some way, buried in the ground in accordance with a particular pattern, combined with a remote ignition system, designed to emit a mass of flaming liquid over its target.  Byzantine "Greek Fire" is probably a fair comparison.

These things could be constructed simply.  A straightforward, but typical example would be one designed to drench a road with liquid fire directly from a drum of fuel concealed in a culvert by the roadside directly.  The example here seems to be of this type.  Other variants would project the fuel on different trajectories, for example, the "hedgehopper", the purpose of which was fairly obvious.

The example in this photo is a rare survival, uncovered by the UK Pillbox Study Group in Kent in 2007.  For obvious reasons, most Flame Fougasses, which had been installed intensively in the South-East of England during the invasion scare of 1940-'41, were dismantled and removed at the end of the war, for very obvious reasons.  Best regards, JR.

Truly deadly Home Guard weapon (no kidding) ...

Girls working in Russia making trap for tanks