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July 21, 2025 was my 30th wedding anniversary. I still vividly remember my wedding day. It was the hottest day of the 20th century, at least in the town of Geleen, the Netherlands, where I got married. It was 42 degrees Celsius. Despite the heat, it was a beautiful day because both my family and…
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On July 20, 1944, a group of German officers planned a daring assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. This attack was part of a broader conspiracy within the German army and administrative elite, known as the July 20 plot or Operation Valkyrie. In the early afternoon, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg placed a bomb in a briefcase…
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Iran is often referred to as an axis of evil and this blog is not meant to agree or disagree with that, it is meant to show that it hasn’t always been that way. In a similar fashion it is often believed that the Soviet army were the good guys during WWII, that wasn’t always…
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I have to apologize upfront because after reading this blog you will never listen to the songs again in the same way. It is not one of my usual blogs, but I was listening to the radio this morning and 2 songs were played in succession which basically had very disturbing lyrics. Most people who…
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Jehovah Witnesses were one of the groups of people hated by the Nazis and were killed by the hundreds, the numbers are unclear but are estimated to be between 1,000 and 2,500. Nazi authorities denounced Jehovah’s Witnesses for their ties to the United States and derided the apparent revolutionary millennialism of their preaching that a…
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A tear rolls down my face because you made me cry, not because you hurt me. A tear rolls down my face because you made me sad, not because you did me wrong A tear rolls down my face and I wonder why, because I don’t know you. A tear rolls down my face although…
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The 1922 silent masterpiece Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens) isn’t just a film; it’s a survivor. Directed by F.W. Murnau, it remains the foundational text of cinematic horror, having narrowly escaped a court-ordered destruction to become the definitive visual language of the vampire mythos. The Birth of a Shadow…
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The above photograph is from October 1938 of Lindbergh receiving a Silver Cross from Herman Göring, the then-second-highest Nazi official. Below is part of the timeline of the Holocaust up to that point. 1933January 30Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany March 22Dachau concentration camp opens April 1Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses April 7Laws…
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