September 2019

  • The dressmakers of Auschwitz

    Haute Couture fashion is not something you would associate with Auschwitz, yet there were about 23 women who worked as dressmakers, producing dresses and haute couture fashion. These female  prisoners served as the staff of the “Upper Tailoring Studio,” a private dressmaking shop for the wives of SS officers stationed at the facility. They were

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  • Tiergartenstraße 4

    Tiergartenstraße 4, may look like an ordinary German address. But is an address which is synonymous to unspeakable evil. It was the address of a villa in  the Tiergarten or Zoo district in central Berlin. But more then that it was the headquarters of the Nazi “euthanasia” program ,the mass murder of disabled people and

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: Today marks the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland by German and Slovak forces, triggering the start of WWII. Below are some pictures and media releases of that day. The Polish Troops ? The Nazi’s and Slovaks ? The Victims ? ? The Media ? ? ?

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