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It’s a song you have all heard a great number of times. And to those who heard it when it was first released it was probably not like anything you’ve heard before. Bohemian Rhapsody is probably the most unlikely title for a Rock song and yet it became a classic , if not THE classic…
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Of the approximately 100,000 Dutch Jews who the Nazis murdered during the Holocaust, about one-third of them were murdered at Sobibor. Below is the breakdown of the figures of those killed at Sobibor. The TransportsTuesday, 2 March 1943 1105 deportees No survivorsWednesday, 10 March 1943 1105 deportees 13 survivorsWednesday, 17 March 1943 …
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Zyklon B, a cyanide-based pesticide, became an instrument of genocide during the Holocaust, marking one of the darkest chapters in human history. Originally developed for benign purposes, its transformation into a tool for mass murder within Nazi gas chambers represents the convergence of industrial efficiency, scientific innovation, and the deliberate, systematic extermination of millions of…
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In the dying embers of the Third Reich, when the skies above Germany burned red and the cities lay in ruins, the last defenders of Adolf Hitler’s empire were not seasoned soldiers—but children.Boys who only months earlier had drilled with wooden rifles now faced tanks and artillery. Their voices had barely deepened, yet they screamed…
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I visited Dachau in June , 2023, and took a few photographs, but out of respect for those who suffered and were murdered there, I only took a few. However, I felt compelled to take a few photographs to use them for the stories I write about Dachau and for the context of the Holocaust.…
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Some of you may not realize this but Queen only had 3 number 1 hits in the UK; Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975,Under Pressure in 1981 and 10 years later with Innuendo in 1991. Ironically their previous number one hit had been brutalized by a certain Mr. Vanilla Ice who used it for his Ice Ice…
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I have to confess that the the title is somewhat misleading because Hugo Gutmann was not a typewriter salesman as of yet when he recommended Hitler’s award of the Iron Cross First Class. Hugo Gutmann was one of the 12,000 Jewish military who fought for Germany during WWI. from 29 January to 31 August, 1918…
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Time! When you think of it, time is such a bizarre concept. It can be measured in an exact set of parameters, years,months,weeks,days,hours,minutes,seconds and even milli and nanoseconds. Yet when you lose someone you love, a day can seem like a year, and a year can seem like a day. Time goes fast and slow…
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“A railway built with steel, but paid for in human lives.” The Burma Railway, often known as the Death Railway, was one of the most notorious construction projects of the Second World War. Built by the Japanese Empire between Burma (now Myanmar) and Thailand, it was intended to provide a strategic land route connecting Japanese-occupied…
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