December 2018

  • On December 26,2018 I was temporarily blocked by Facebook. The reason was a blog called “Forgotten History-Mengele’s reluctant assistants” Forgotten History-Mengele’s reluctant assistants I had initially posted this blog on December 24 2016.It has been re-posted several times since and never any issues. Then on December 24,2018 I re-blogged it  on Facebook and other sites.However

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  • Reporting the Holocaust.

    It is often said that no one knew what happened in the concentration camps. But in fact people just didn’t want to know or could fathom the horrors and therefore decided to stick their heads in the sand. I am not referring to the Germans on this occasion but to the people in the USA,UK

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  • A phrase often used by Hitler was “whoever has the youth has the future” the scary thing about this is that there are elements of truth in that statement. I often come across pictures of young Holocaust victims and each one of them without exception are heartbreaking. For all those kids their future was denied.

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  • Die hard Rasputin

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: As the song goes”Rasputin lover of the Russian Queen” . It was never proven he was the lover of Alexandra,Czarina and wife of  Nicholas II Czar of Russia. However what was proven is that Rasputin was very hard to kill,nearly impossible evn. Sometime over the course of the night and…

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  • Hongerwinter—Hunger Winter

    In September 1944, most of the southern part of the Netherlands had been liberated. Unfortunately, the rest of the country faced a very harsh winter. Extreme cold combined with a lack of food resulted in a famine, causing the death of about 20,000 citizens. Dutch railway workers had gone on strike with the hope of

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  • More and more people are getting blocked by Facebook. I was blocked today for posting a blog on the evils of Joseph Mengele. I notified Facebook explaining to them they were in breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and specifically articles 18 and 19. Article 18 Everyone has the right to freedom of

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  • When you Google the name Therese Brandl, one of the first results you get is a mention of her name in IMDb(Internet Movie Database) as one of the cast members of the 1945 documentary “Auschwitz Krakow Trial 1947″ . I don’t criticize IMDb for categorizing her as a cast member because that is how the

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  • U-1206-Ach Scheiße

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: First of all I want to apologize for the rude title but I thought it to be the most appropriate. War is a driving force behind innovation. From superglue to the internet, military technology has led to the invention of many products that have proven useful in both warfare…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is a blog honoring the WWII heroes who had to deal with the aftermath of battles. After the dust temporarily settled the Nurses were confronted with the horrors of war. T Aside from tending to the wounds and pain they were also the ones who comforted the injured…

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