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Victory in Europe Day referred to as VE Day, was the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945. It marks the official end of World War II in Europe. For many, that day came too late. Some died that day…
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The title of this blog is a quote by Groucho Marx—I chose it because I felt it best captured the absurdity of Rudolf Hess and his misguided attempt to convince the Allies to ally with the Nazis. Rudolf Hess’s dramatic solo flight to Scotland in May 1941 is one of the most bizarre and enigmatic…
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The Visitor is the debut solo album by Mick Fleetwood, released by RCA Records in 1981. Recorded primarily in Accra, Ghana, between January and February 1981, the project represented a bold departure from the polished pop-rock of Fleetwood Mac. I bought the album twice, and both times I found them in the bargain sections of…
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The “German Instrument of Surrender” actually refers to two documents. The first was signed in Reims, France, on May 7, 1945, and the second—a more formal “definitive” version—was signed in Berlin on May 8, 1945, to satisfy the Soviet Union’s demand for a ceremony in the captured German capital. Below is the text of the…
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It’s amazing to think that the allies possibly won the war by a dead homeless man. Glyndwr Michael (4 January 1909 – 24 January 1943) was a semi-literate homeless man whose body was used in Operation Mincemeat, the successful World War II deception plan that lured German forces to Greece prior to the Allied invasion…
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••••••••••WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES•••••••••• I have often argued that it would be unfair to brush all Germans with the same brush because some Germans did resist the Nazi regime. However, there is no denying that many were ignorant about what was happening to their neighbours who were either Jewish, Gay, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Disabled or Roma/Sinti,…
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I have to be honest, the title is a bit deceiving. This blog is not about his nephew, the famous Rockstar , but it is about Leonard M. Kravitz (technically Lenny is short for Leonard). Leonard Martin Kravitz was an American soldier in the United States Army who served in the Korean War. He is…
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The history of the Holocaust is often defined by the scale of its industrial slaughter, yet some of its most profound horrors lie in the specific, targeted decrees designed to extinguish the very concept of a Jewish future. On May 7, 1942, the Nazi administration in occupied Lithuania issued a mandate that transformed the Kovno…
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The address of Bloemenmarkt 7 won’t mean much to most of you, and it probably doesn’t mean that much to some of the people in Geleen. It was the address of a butcher shop and apartment in a square in the suburbs of Lindenheuvel in Geleen, the Netherlands. Today it is the home of a…
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The Hindenburg disaster is probably just as iconic(for lack of a better word) as the Titanic disaster. The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, burst into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crew members. The Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, New…
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