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When the guns of World War II finally fell silent in 1945, Europe faced not only the monumental task of rebuilding cities and economies, but also of seeking justice. Few names were as synonymous with betrayal as Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian politician whose collaboration with Nazi Germany turned his surname into a byword for “traitor.”…
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(Repost from January 22,2023) During the night of 21 to 22 January 1943, the Nazis raided Het Apeldoornsche Bosch, a Jewish psychiatric hospital in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. Nearly 1300 people are deported to Auschwitz. All 1181 patients, sometimes naked, confused or in straitjackets, were forced by units of the SS and the Ordnungspolizei under the…
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This doll belonged to a 7 year old Belgian girl her name was Aline Klajn. I could say 2 things about Aline. I could say she was from Polish parents and I could also say she was Jewish. But none of that warranted her death, but yet it did. She was killed because she was…
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Masha Bruskina was a Russian teenage female partisan. She was a 17-year-old Jewish high school graduate and was the first teenage girl to be publicly hanged by the Nazis in Belarus, since the German invasion of the Soviet Union on the 22nd of June 1941. Masha Bruskina was born in Minsk, in the Soviet Union,…
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Today, I’d like to wish our blue planet a very happy birthday! According to one famous historical calculation, Earth was created on this day—October 23, 4004 BC—at exactly 6:00 PM. At least, that is according to Archbishop James Ussher (1581–1656). Ussher, the Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin,…
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(Firts published on October 5 2017) Marie Elisabeth Jean Elmes (5 May 1908 – 9 March 2002)was an Irish businesswoman and aid worker who is credited with saving the lives of at least 200 Jewish children during the Holocaust by hiding them in the boot of her car.In 2015, she became the first and so far…
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This is a little known story which took place on the 13th of May 1944. The victims were Chinese citizens, not tortured and killed by Japanese but by the Gestapo in Hamburg,Germany. It requires a lot of imagination to recollect the past history that the Schmuckstraße as the center of a lively Chinese district of…
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“Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” is a song recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968 that appears as the final track on the Electric Ladyland album released that year. It contains improvised guitar and a vocal from Jimi Hendrix, backed by Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The song is one of…
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