December 2016

  • The photo was shot during wartime, 6 December 1944 (Sinterklaas, St-Nicholas in the Netherlands and Belgium, arrives in Rucphen, a town near Roosendaal (The Netherlands). Normally Sinterklaas arrives on a white horse but this he uses a Sherman-tank.) Sinterklaas or Sint-Nicolaas is a mythical figure with legendary, historical and folkloric origins based on Saint Nicholas(He is…

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  • Hell Broke Loose

    “Hell broke loose” was a  December 1885 newspaper headline relating to the Servant Girl Annihilator in Austin,Texas. This case had striking similarities with the “Jack the Ripper” case, however it happened 3 years before the Ripper caused hell in London. Author Shirley Harrison contends that Jack the Ripper and the Servant Girl Annihilator were both…

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  • The SS John Harvey disaster

    SS John Harvey was a U.S. World War II Liberty ship. This ship is most well known for carrying a secret cargo of mustard gas and whose sinking by German aircraft in December 1943 at the port of Bari in south Italy caused an unintentional release of chemical weapons. The John Harvey was built by…

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  • Walter Wagner  was the notary who married Adolf Hitler to Eva Braun in the Führerbunker on 29 April 1945. Wagner was a lawyer and a member of the Nazi Party. He was known to Joseph Goebbels, who had previously worked with him in Berlin. As the Allies approached Berlin, he had been drafted into the…

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  • It is just unfathomable how many of the most evil and vile war criminals escaped justice. It is something the German government and other European and American governments should be deeply,deeply ashamed off because they escaped under their watch. Gustav Franz Wagner (18 July 1911 – 3 October 1980) was am Austrian member of the SS…

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