January 2017
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To be honest I was struggling to find a suitable title for this piece, but effectively in a bizarre way, 12 January 1893 did have consequences for the lives of millions just before and during World War 2. There is no science behind this it’s just a historical observation of a bizarre and even
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Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 – November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer. He is considered to be one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. Furtwängler was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic between 1922 and 1945, and from 1952 until 1954. He was also principal conductor of the
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On the 30th of April 1945 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun allegedly committed suicide. However this has been disputed and files released in 2014 by the FBI claim that they have escaped to South America, probably Argentina. I don’t think they did escape and that they did kill themselves in the bunker on that day.
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The first mass murder gassings by the Nazi regime did not happen in the concentration camps. The first gassing of human beings in Germany was in January 1940 at the Brandenburg Euthanasia Centre. However, the Hartheim Euthanasia Centre, the main centre, carried out the T4 Program—the mass murder of the physically and mentally disabled. It
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This metal train sign ‘Westerbork-Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Westerbork’ indicated a return trip that nobody would ever make. On 15 and 16 July 1942, the first two cargo trains packed with more than 2,000 Jews left the Westerbork Transit Camp headed for the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland. Most of the people aboard these transports were killed the same day they
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It wasn’t only death and destruction during WWII, sometimes there was time for a bit of romance and love. Whispering sweet nothings US Army Nurse kissing a Corporal. They were just married A daughter awaiting her father’s arrival home This “no, no, not yet” goodbye Welcome home, a family re-united. The kisses and tears
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Operation PX was the codename for the Japanese plan for a biological terror attack on the U.S. west coast in World War 2. The planned operation was abandoned due to the strong opposition of Chief of General Staff Yoshijirō Umezu, as well as the Japan surrender following the atomic bombings and the Soviet declaration of
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The everyday life of the Jewish Gold family, who lived in the village of Jutphaas near Utrecht, came to an abrupt end in April 1943: Father, Mother and their son Lothar were picked up from their home and eventually deported. They always had close contact with the neighbours across the street, the Steenaart family.
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