May 2016
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Not to sound too much like the beginning line of a Sting song, but in Europe and America I don’t think much is known about Australia during WWII. I was actually doing research on a different story when I stumbled upon the story of the attack on Sydney Harbour. I had the pleasure to visit…
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Regardless what you think of the Nazi’s, one thing can’t be denied. They had an extremely effective and well oiled propaganda machine. Not only German Nazi members and citizens were involved it had also foreign Nazi sympathizers working for them and none so infamous and notorious as William Joyce AKA Lord Haw Haw. William Joyce…
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Although VE day was on the 8th of May 1945 and the German troops had surrendered, Admiral Doenitz was still the President of the German Reich or at least what was left of it. The government was known as the Flensburg Government sometimes also referred to as the Cabinet of Schwerin von Krosigk after Lutz Graf Schwerin von…
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It is hard to say which crime committed during the Holocaust was the most gruesome, but along with the Action T4 program, the Action 14f13 is equally horrific. Not because they were worse then all the other atrocities but because elements of both programs are slowly sneaking in by stealth in a number of European…
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Sometimes it is difficult enough to find a compelling story relating to WWII. But then there are times when you are having your lunch and are listening to a radio show. On the Irish radio talk show, Liveline, a lady called in to talk about the ordeal her 98 year old mother had to go…
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Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the executions of Bruno Tesch& Karl Weinbacher . I was able to find a few pictures of Bruno Tesch but none from Karl Weinbacher. After the war, several employees of the companies that had supplied Zykon B to the SS in the concentration and extermination camps were brought…
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This story had all the makings of a great spy movie and no wonder that in 2007 ,film director Stefan Ruzowitzky made the movie “The Counterfeiters” which won the Oscar for best movie in a foreign Language. Operation Bernhard was the name of a secret German plan devised during World War II to destabilise the British economy by…
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It is a well-known fact—that the Dutch, like the British, French, and Portuguese, were a colonial power for centuries. The Dutch influence is still noticeable around the globe. One of the Dutch colonies was Surinam, a small country but considerably larger than the Netherlands, in South America between Guyana (former British Guyana) and French Guyana.…
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I was actually doing research on a Sobibor victim called Ben Ali Libi which was the stage name of Michel Velleman , a Dutch Jewis magician who died in Sobibor on July 2nd 1943, But although there is a lot of mention of Ben Ali Libi there is actually little information. However I will do…
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Not all Concentration camp victims were killed by the Nazi’s the case of the SS Cap Arcona is one of the worst and most tragic cases of’collateral damage’ of WWII by the Allies. Today is the 75th anniversary of the tragic event. The Cap Arcona was a large German luxury ocean liner formerly of the…
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