January 2021
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Originally posted on I didn't have my glasses on….: no, she has not gone missing but keeping santa’s promise to sweet kitty, olive – find her a sweet companion. with virus, time home, holidays sweet little kitties are hard to find but i’m on the case ready for the rescue i see her on…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Every meal could have been her last. And when she had finished eating the bland vegetarian dishes put before her, 25-year-old Margot Wölk and her young female colleagues would burst into tears and “cry like dogs” because they were grateful still to be alive. Hitler was a vegetarian, it…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Today marks the 100th anniversary of real girl power. Om August 13th 1918,Opha May Johnson became the first Female US Marine. World War I was drawing to an end when the Marine Corps decided to fill some of the gaps left behind by all the men fighting overseas. In…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: There are some facts that can be disputed in relation to the Holocaust,albeit very few. The one thing though that is indisputable is that Hitler and his henchmen were not able to cause so much death and destruction if it hadn’t been for the men and women who helped…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Often the psyche of people is that they see what they want to see. They see a headline or a picture and they will have made up their minds. There is no further need for more details on the background story, they have enough to work with and make…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Born in Berlin in 1907, Ohlendorf joined the SA in 1925 and the SS in 1926. In 1936 he joined the SD as an economic adviser and from 1939 to 1945 he served as the chief of the Reich Security Main Office’s Amt III, which studied the results of…
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It would have been James Bond’s 121st birthday today. When I say James Bond though I am not talking about the elusive spy codenamed 007 but about the American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean. The real Bond was born in Philadelphia and worked as an ornithologist at the Academy of Natural
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: First of all let me tell you I am Dutch and I am proud to be Dutch. I love the country where I was born and where I grew up. But I am not proud of some of its black pages in history. I can understand why some Dutch…
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