February 2021
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When I look at some actors and other celebrities nowadays and lsiten to them preach to us, I wonder is it because they are just very bland? Whatever happened to just being cool like the stars from days of yor. These are just some of them. I won’t put any names down, that is your
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Leonidas Squadron, formally known as 5th Staffel of Kampfgeschwader 200 was a unit which was originally formed to fly the Fieseler Fi 103R (Reichenberg), a manned version of the V-1 flying bomb, in attacks in which the pilot was likely to be killed, or at best to parachute…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Felix Landau (May 21, 1910, Vienna, Austria – April 4, 1983), was a SS Hauptscharführer, a member of an Einsatzkommando , based first in Lwów, Poland (today Lviv, Ukraine), and later in Drohobycz. He was a “central figure in the Nazi program of the extermination of Galician Jews”.He is known for his daily diary and for temporarily sparing the life of the Jewish artist Bruno Schulz in 1942. Landau liked Schulz’s art…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Although Switzerland remained neutral throughout World War II, it had to deal with numerous violations of its airspace by combatants from both sides – initially by German aircraft, especially during their invasion of France in 1940. Zealous Swiss pilots attacked and shot down eleven German aircraft, losing two of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Today is the 76th anniversary of a tragic event that took place during World War II, involving 769 Jews who perished in a ramshackle ship called Struma while escaping from Romania. The woeful circumstances that surrounded this event were a grim global war, clumsy diplomatic maneuvers conducted by the…
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If Elvis Presley was the king of Rock and Roll, then Johnny Cash surely must be the king of Country and Western. I only began to appreciate his music late on in life. Born J. R. Cash in Kingsland, Arkansas, on February 26, 1932. There is not much I can say about the man that
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The possessions and precious belongings of the Jews transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau were left in the train carriages and on the ramp as their owners were quickly put through the selection process. When the selection process was complete, a work group of prisoners called the ‘Kanada Kommando’ collected the belongings…
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Originally posted on I didn't have my glasses on….: almost time to awaken to spring. ? — “there is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” -homer ? ? ? — image credit: Wintersleep (giclee print) by Marjolein Caljouw
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