April 2020
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Posting this for 2 reasons. It is important that the truth is told Grant Gochin is a honorable man and I am proud to call him a friend. Times of Israel blog by Grant Gochin For the past eight years I have been fighting a protracted legal battle to remove honors awarded to Lithuania’s
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: There were many contradictions during the Holocaust on one hand there were Nazis like Wilm Hosenfeld who saved Jews, on the other hand there were Jews who helped the Nazis ensuring many Jews were put on transport to their deaths. One of those Jews was Chaim Rumkowski and although I try…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: They say that everyone has a book in them. Just imagine the millions of books which were never written because of a regime that deemed millions unworthy of life, leave alone worthy of writing a book. So many potential authors and scholars who never got a chance because of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I think the 2 monuments above probably are the best indicators of what the Dutch resistance entailed during WWII. On the left is the monument called “de Dokwerker” the Dockworker . This was erected in Amsterdam to remember those who died during the “February strike” in 1941. On the…
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A name you don’t hear mentioned very often in the context of WWII and the Holocaust is Siegfried Adolf Handloser. He was Chief of the Medical Services of the German Armed Forces during World War II. And held therefore the most important medical position in the entire German Armed Forces and the Waffen-SS. He could
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When you look at the above picture you may think there is nothing extraordinary about it. However when you delve only slightly into the history of the picture you quickly how realize how amazing the picture really is. The picture is of a Jewish male choir of the Great Synagogue in Amsterdam, it was taken
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The NS-Frauen-Warte was a fortnightly Nazi magazine for women. At a first glance the magazine looked harmless. It would often have recipes or sewing patterns etc. But most of the articles in the magazine were pure propaganda, aimed to brainwash women and especially young mothers. Below is an article…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Wilhelm Kube was a devout Christian as well as a zealous Nazi. Those 2 aspects of his life clashed a few times during WWII. In July 1941, just after the German occupation of the western parts of the Soviet Union, he was appointed Generalkommissar for Weissruthenien (now known as…
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