January 2020
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I am not a great fan of statistics because without the full story behind them, they can be manipulated and often they are. However sometimes they can be useful to indicate a scale, In this the scale of death and destruction during the Holocaust. Between July 15,1942 and 13 September 1944 107,000 Jews were deported
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I am Kira Zylberszac or perhaps I should say I was Kira Zylberszac. My age is 7 years old I died on August 19 1942 together with my younger brother Serge, We did not die because we were sick or someway a threat to the world. We died because of an…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The world’s leading transport and logistics company Kühne + Nagel is portrayed in a new study as the removal firm of choice for the Nazis during the Holocaust. Under the code name “Furniture Action” or also “M-Action” (abbreviation for “Möbel-Aktion”), the “Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg” looted approximately 70,000 homes since…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is totally fictional with a few historic facts, I often wonder how Anne and Margot Frank’s story would have looked like if the path of History would have gone even the slightest different direction. Below are fictional diary entries of Anne and Margot frank, but it could have…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Political Department was the representative of the RSHA( Reich Main Security Office)in the camp, and its main objectives were Identification documentation Keeping files on individual prisoners Investigations Interrogations Intelligence service Surveillance Camp registrar (sometimes in conjunction with supervision of the crematorium) Wilhelm Friedrich Boger who had the nickname ‘the…
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This picture really upset me, it comes from an album from the National Monument of Camp Vught. When I saw the picture first I thought it was a family picture of 4 siblings. But these kids are not related, it appears to be a staged picture taken at Vught Concentration Camp But that is not
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: There are so many analysis done about the Nazis and their psyche etc. But if you strip it down to basics all they were was a bunch of vile criminals with a warped ideology and sense of self importance, led by a delusional failed artist. Even at the end…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On 23 January 1920, the government of the Netherlands refused to extradite the former Kaiser of Germany, Wilhelm II. His aggressive foreign policy and support for Austro-Hungary in 1914 led to the first world war. After the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, he was charged with…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: One of the most powerful weapons during WWII and indeed any other war was propaganda. It was however not only the governments that used propaganda, private also used propaganda, albeit in a more subliminal manner, in their advertising campaigns. Some of these ads would put 21st century advertisers to…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The saying goes”If you want to get to know somebody? Walk a mile in their shoes.” These shoes were found in Auschwitz and are on display in the Jewish Museum in London. I don’t know if is the actual shoes which are on display or of it is just…
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