February 2020
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Young human beings why did you have to die? One of you still has the eyes open but the eyes are without a spark, the life has gone out of them. I don’t know who these children are, all I know that they died from starvation and typhus and…
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One of the things I could never understand was the death marches. The most of them happened near the end of the war. Even from a strategically point of view they made no sense. Then again a lot of actions taken by the Nazis didn’t make a lot of sense. So may of their policies
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I am age 10, I should be at school learning and having fun with my fellow students. I am age 10, my only worry should be “will I have enough to time to go out and play after my homework” I am age 10, my greatest ambition in life…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: ? Switzerland still has a lot of questions to answer when it comes to their involvement in WWII. Officially they were neutral but there neutrality was just like their cheeses, full of holes in them. Half a century after the Second World War had ended, Switzerland decided to forgive…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I am always amazed by the fact that there are still people who desperately want to deny the Holocaust. Although there is so much evident and a lot of it very graphic, they still say it never happened and that the photographic evidence are staged pictures, produced by the…
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I found it difficult to select a suitable title for this blog but, I think Mundane Evil probably describes it best. The photograph above is of a list of belongings of an inmate of Auschwitz. Unfortunately, I can’t decipher the first name, but the last name is Ludwig. However, it also could be the first name. In
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Hessy Levinsons Taft (born May 17, 1934) is a woman, born to Jewish parents in Berlin, best known for having been featured prominently as an infant in Nazi propaganda after her photo was surreptitiously entered in, and then selected as the winner of, a contest to find the most beautiful Aryan baby. Taft’s image became one…
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On February 25, 1941, the Dutch decided that enough was enough. No longer would they stand idly by to see the treatment of their Jewish neighbors. The first 8 months of the Nazi occupation did not see that much change to the Dutch. The changes were all gradual. However, there were increased tensions. The WA(Weerbaarheidsafdeling-defense
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