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The Dutch railways were essential to the Nazis, not only as the transport of Jews and others eastwards to the camps but also as a propaganda tool. During the pre-war crisis years, the Netherlands welcomed many malnourished Austrian children. Reichskommissar Seyss-Inquart, himself an Austrian, thought he should show gratitude for this. The Nazis, therefore, organized…
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The title is The 4 from Breda, but there are only 3 men pictured. There is a reason for that which I shall explain a bit later. After the Second World War, 241 Germans were tried in the Netherlands for war crimes. Among them, the quartet Willi Lages, Ferdinand aus der Fünten, Franz Fischer and Joseph Kotälla,…
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Enduring Pain In the silent depths of night,Where shadows whisper, hushed and tight,There lies a heart that beats in vain,A silent witness to the pain. Beneath the surface, out of sight,A soul endures, fierce in its fight,For pain, though sharp, will not define,The strength within this heart of mine. Each tear that falls, a testament,To…
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The Madagascar Plan represents a chilling chapter in the history of Nazi Germany’s antisemitic policies. Developed primarily between 1938 and 1940, the plan envisioned the forced resettlement of Europe’s Jewish population to the island of Madagascar, then a French colony. While it was never implemented, the Madagascar Plan reveals the trajectory of Nazi ideology and…
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I always take the approach to explain things so that a child can understand them, not because I am condescending, but because I know that if a child understands it, everyone else should. How would you explain the Nazi ideology to a child, though? Especially during the 1933–1945 years. How would you explain the removal…
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Since 2016, I have been writing and researching the evils thrust upon Europe and beyond by the NSDAP or in short Nazis, but I had never visited a concentration camp until 4 June 2023. I will not just write about Dachau . I will also include the place I visited the day before—Das NS-Dokumentationszentrum München—the…
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The Massacre of Kondomari refers to the execution of male civilians from the village of Kondomari in Crete by an ad hoc firing squad consisting of German paratroopers on 2 June 1941 during World War II.The shooting was the first of a series of reprisals in Crete. It was orchestrated by Generaloberst Kurt Student, in…
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No this is not a piece on World War 2 or any other war for that matter,although it is often said that football is war. The Battle of Santiago is the name given to a particularly infamous football match during the 1962 FIFA World Cup. It was a game played between host Chile and Italy…
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A smiley face with an evil soul. Eddie Leonski, known as the “Brownout Strangler” and the “Singing Strangler,” was an American soldier and serial killer who committed a series of murders in Melbourne, Australia, during World War II. Edward Joseph Leonski was born on December 12, 1917, in Kenvil, New Jersey, in the United States.…
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An Iranian official risking his life to save Jews? This scenario, while unlikely nowadays, actually happened during the Holocaust. Abdol Hossein Sardari, often hailed as the “Iranian Schindler,” disagrees with that title; he was Sardari, and Schindler was Schindler; comparing the two men takes away from what they both did. Sardari was a notable Iranian…
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