May 2017

  • Not everyone in the Netherlands were against the Nazi occupation of the country. Although most of the Dutch hated the German occupiers, there were some who saw it as an opportunity to pursue their own agenda. In a meeting on June 9, 1940 between A.A. Mussert( the leader of the National Socialist Movement in the…

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  • Ireland’s president, Douglas Hyde, during World War II, offered condolences to Nazi Germany’s representative in Dublin over the death of Adolf Hitler,  declassified government records show. It was long believed that Ireland’s prime minister (Taoiseach) at the time, Eamon de Valera, was the only government leader to convey official condolences to Eduard Hempel, director of…

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  • It is hard to believe that it has already been 8 years to the day since Obama Bin Laden was killed. I can’t help but thinking what the Iranian born comedian Omid Djalili said about this.”We spent 10 years looking for Bin Laden. We scoured 27 countries looking for Bin Laden, we spent 2 Billions…

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  • Today is the 30th anniversary of the beatification of Edith Stein by Pope John Paul II.Her story intrigued me, not because I am a Catholic and I pray to saints, but because Edith Stein’s life has remarkable similarities to another converted Jewish woman called Luise Löwenfels, who was deported from my birth place. Forgotten History-Luise…

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