May 2018
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I am one in a million, my Father says. I am unique in every way, my Mother says. I am their bundle of joy my parents say. I am a threat to the nation, the Nazis say. I am costing the country a lot of money, the government says. I should not have been born,
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It’s May 17 1942, you country is occupied by a hostile foreign nation. Fellow country man are dying on battlefields or being executed for being members of the resistance and other fellow country men are being deported to death camps. What do you do? Well watch a football match of course. Since the champions league
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I often like to play with words for example when you take Warsaw and switch some parts of the name you get an accurate description of what the city went through during WWII . Saw War and Was raw. Warsaw saw the war in its rawest and most brutal form. It is also one of
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Regardless how talented you were, or how much value you could add to the German culture, if you didn’t comply to the Nazi ideology or dared to criticize it, you stood a good chance of getting executed. Karlrobert Kreiten born 26 June 1916, in Bonn, Germany) was a Dutch-German pianist, holding Dutch citizenship his short life
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The battle of the Netherlands was really best described in biblical terms, it was a fight between David and Goliath. Valiantly the Dutch fought the Germans for 4 days, Although they were poorly equipped and badly organized they kept fighting and caused significant damage to the Germans. But on May 14,1940 when the Luftwaffe virtually
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Originally posted on I didn't have my glasses on….: “there are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.” -dr. benjamin spock — happy mother’s day to all ? ? ? — image credit: vintage ads
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Despite all the horrors of World War II—there was still room for humour, satire, and a healthy dose of sarcasm. Although, sometimes the price to pay for a joke could be extremely high. In this blog, these are just a few examples of some WWII jokes, the consequences for some of them, and the way
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Ever since its inception , the media of film has been a perfect tool to inform the masses be it in an entertaining way or in a more sinister manner. It was and still is the perfect way to distribute propaganda material en mass, although in more recent years social media has taken over that
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British politics is probably the most intriguing politics in the world. With all its traditions and even the sometimes humorous debates in the house of commons are often fascinating. However what many people don’t know that in 1812 on the 11th of May the only ever assassination of a British Prime minister took place.
History of Sorts 
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