November 2020
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: ? Music soothes the savage beast, that is what Eric Vogel must have thought when he send a petition to the Commander of the Theresienstadt camp on January 8, 1943 , to start a Jazz band, named the Ghetto Swingers. The band would include the following members he noted.…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The “Letters to Henio” project began in the city of Lublin in 2005 as part of an activity to preserve and reconstruct the city’s Jewish heritage. A local cultural center, Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre, organizes this educational activity. According to the center’s director, Tomasz Pietrasiewicz, the main idea…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The title is a line from a 1945 letter, from Harold Porter to his mother and father in Michigan, describing the situation at the Dachau concentration camp after liberation. The letters that Pfc. Porter, who served as a medic with the 116th Evacuation Hospital, wrote to his parents are now…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: As Edmund Burke once said”The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”, I would like to add “for good women to do nothing” This is is how the Nazi regime and all its evil could flourish. People saw what was happening,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It can be argued that WWII never really ended or that the cold war wasn’t really all that cold. Immediately after WWII, in fact technically still during the War in the Pacific,Indonesia declared it’s independence triggering an armed conflict with the Dutch and British. Under pressure from radical and…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: One of the most disturbing aspects of the Holocaust,aside from the obvious, is the fact that the victims were reduced to numbers. In the camps they were designated numbers. When they died they were a number in the overall number of victims and even after the war they were…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: With Stephen King’s “It” taking cinemas by storm it is time to have a look at the real Clown Killer. John Wayne Gacy. Although Pennywise is a total fictional character(well at least I hope so) there are similarities between him and John Wayne Gacy. John Wayne Gacy was convicted…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The 1509 Constantinople earthquake, referred to as “The Lesser Judgment Day” by contemporaries, occurred in the Sea of Marmara on 10 September 1509 at about 10pm. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.2 ± 0.3 on the surface wave magnitude scale.A tsunami and forty-five days of aftershocks followed the earthquake. Over a thousand houses and 109 mosques were destroyed, and…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Degenerate art was a term adopted by the Nazi regime in Germany to describe Modern art. Such art was banned on the grounds that it was un-German, Jewish, or Communist in nature, and those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions. These included being dismissed from teaching positions, being forbidden to exhibit or to sell their art,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On Wednesday morning, September 9, 1942, the I-25, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Meiji Tagami, surfaced west of Cape Blanco. Launching from the Japanese sub I-25, Nobuo Fujita piloted his light aircraft over the state of Oregon and firebombed Mount Emily, alighting a state forest–and ensuring his place in the history books as the…
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