March 2020

  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: Only the good die young all the evil seem to live forever are lyrics from an Iron Maiden song. For many years I thought this to be true for I saw so many evil men living a long life, however luckily I was wrong in that assumption. Sometimes good…

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  • The term the Nazis used for how to handle  the Jews was “Ausradieren” or ‘Erase’, this did not only mean to kill every Jew but also ensure that no other Jew would be born again. But the notion of erasing the Jewish people also meant to erase anything Jewish. Things like Jewish scientific research, literature,art 

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: 5 Months=137,346 deaths, that is the disturbing mathematical equation that could be made from the Jäger report. Not human beings, just numbers on a spreadsheet created by a man who claimed “I was always a person with a heightened sense of duty” The so-called Jäger Report (full title: Complete tabulation of executions carried…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: +++++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++++++++ No one will argue that the Nazi’s and their crimes are among the worse ever committed in history. However the Japanese were just as bad of not worse. The difference is that the Nazi’s focuses their crimes on certain groups, where the Japanese killed indiscriminately. Below…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: In a number of European cities they are remembering victims of the Holocaust by placing plaques in the streets where they used to live, These plaques are sometimes referred to as ‘Stumbling stones’ for the obvious reason that people might just make a small stumble, and that is the…

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  • Punks in WWII

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: Before you start thinking that this will be a blog about Punk bands like the Sex Pistols singing about WWII, you’d be wrong. In fact it has nothing to do with Punk music but more about Jazz. I am referring to Punk as a rebellion against the establishment. During…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: There are no monsters under my bed who want to hurt me or do me harm There are no monsters under my bed, but I wish there were for I know they aren’t real. There are no monsters under my bed, but there are monsters everywhere else. The monsters…

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  • Toilet Paper

    When I first started doing my blogs I never though I would be writing about toilet paper one day, but due this upsurge in the fascination with toilet paper , caused by the Covid 19 crisis, I felt compelled to have a quick look at the history of toilet paper. Below are just some key

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