September 2016
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Although the Netherlands was liberated on the 5th of May and VE day was on the 8th of May. It took more then a month after the official liberation of Europe for this Island at the north of the country to be liberated. It was on the 11th of June 1945 before Schiermonnikoog was
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++++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++ Another remind how cruel humanity can be. Dead inmates discovered in the concentration camp at Buchenwald after its liberation on April 11 by the U.S. 6th Armored Division. An estimated 56,000 victims had been murdered at Buchenwald and its subcamps. At a Belgian crossroads in the early hours of the battle of
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The most vulnerable in society are children and even more vulnerable the children with a disability. They deserve love and care more then anyone else. However the Nazi regime had a different philosophy. To them these poor souls were the impure and undesirable and there was no space for them in the Third Reich. Am
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This blog contains pictures depicting the Human side of World War 2. Among all the destruction and evil there were moments of compassion, let us never forget about that. A wounded Australian soldier being helped by a local during World War II. (Papua New Guinea, 1942) Two American soldiers, comforting a little girl by giving
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We know all about Rommel and his Africa Korps and Montgomery’s X Corps. The Battle of El Alamein is one of the most famous battles of World War 2, but all of this took place in the North of Africa Very little is known about the South African involvement in WWII. During World War II,
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There were several events that happened on September 18 during World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, six extraordinary events occurred on the same date, 18 September. I am not sure if it is a coincidence or intentional. Or maybe I just happened to spot it; either way, it is a bit eerie, and most
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On September 15 1939, a convoy contact was made due west of the English Channel, in an area the British called the Western Approaches. The sea lanes were abuzz with traffic and some successes against British shipping had occurred in the early days of the war. To provide at least some form of protection for
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Today marks the 77th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden,mostly associated with the book of Cornelius Ryan ‘A Bridge too Far’ which was made into a star studded block buster movie in 1977 with the same title. It is a lengthy blog but it is an important story to be re-told because the effects of this
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Many people think that terrorism is a relatively new phenomenon which really only started in the late 1960’s But nothing could be further from the truth. Scholars dispute whether the roots of terrorism date back to the 1st century and the Sicarii Zealots, to the 11th century and the Al-Hashshashin, to the 19th century and the
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Today marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Maastricht, the first city in the Netherlands to be liberated from the Germans. Due to the fact that the small village of Wyck,nowadays a suburb of Maastricht) had been liberated on the 13th of September by 117 Old Hickory, the commander of the 353rd division,General Paul
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