December 2017
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2,335 service men & 68 civilians killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Those two numbers,2,335 & 68, are just statistics and mean nothing without the stories behind them. For none of these casualties were just numbers. They were someone’s son,father,husband,wife, daughter and sister each of them heroes. These are just the stories of 2
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Although designed and built for commercial transatlantic passenger, air freight, and mail service, at the behest of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , Hindenburg was first pressed into use by the Air Ministry as a vehicle for the delivery of Nazi propaganda And in the 1930’s it must have been an awesome sight,indeed it still
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When we think of Christmas dinner now, we think of indulgence a non stop culinary feast, an abundance of food and drink. During WWII however, it was anything but that. In most occupied countries people were trying to survive on very little food. In the US, UK and Canada food was rationed.Rationing was introduced in
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In this PC world these ads will not be shown anymore. Usually I don’t like Political Correctness, but in this case I am willing to make an exception, Thank goodness for that. Just warning you, there is a possibility you will not sleep again after seeing these. Size doesn’t matter Get that hairy chest and
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Although WWII was without a doubt the darkest era in world history, it wasn’t always death and destruction. There were a few lighter moments during the war, below are some pictures of those times and events. Woman looks after a baby elephant in her back yard during WWII There is always time for a song
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+++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++++++There are people who consider the execution of SS guards , after the liberation of Dachau, by allied troops to be a war crime. I can see why people perceive it that way, but I don’t subscribe to that point of view. What the allied troops witnessed there was worse then a
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Wolfram Sievers was the Reich Manager of the Ancestral Heritage Society (“Ahnenerbe”) and Director of its Institute for Military Scientific Research (Institut fuer Wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung) In order to understand how sick and twisted this man and his colleagues were I will demonstrate this not by horrific images but by a letter he send to another ‘sceintist’
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During World War II, Allied soldiers in German prison camps used Monopoly games for more than just amusement. Thanks to an ingenious scheme by a branch of the British Ministry of Defense known as MI9, these soldiers were actually able to use Monopoly games to escape to freedom. Christopher William Clayton Hutton (1893–1965) known to his colleagues
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As a young man I was forced to watch the most boring movies about a young empress called Sissi, usually the movies would be on around Christmas time. Not only were they boring, they were also extremely long and it was a trilogy.They were made between 1955 and 1957. The movies were all idyllic and
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Sometimes a hero is not a general who leads his troops into battle, or a surgeon who performs an impossible operation, sometimes it is just an ordinary woman who refuses to give up her seat in a bus. Today 66 years ago Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat in the
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