March 2021
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This week marks the 80th anniversary of the building of the Mauthausen concentration camp complex in Austria.From day 1 the aim of the camp was to make profit. Mauthausen and its many sub-camps were built by prisoners from Dachau concentration camp, which effectively meant free labor. The Nazis had chosen…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Even one of his last acts Hitler showed he was nothing else but a fraud on the 19th of March 1945 he issued the “Nero Decree” The decree ordered the destruction of German infrastructure to prevent their use by Allied forces as they penetrated deep within Germany. It was officially…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Sometimes we forget that not every German citizen subscribed to Hitler’s point of view or were associated to the Nazi party, in fact a lot of Germans were war victims like anyone else around the globe at that time. It is said that more then 70,000 Germans were executed…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: There are 2 indisputable facts when it comes to the youngest members of society. A child is born with no state of mind, a baby does not know how to hate or how to love, he/she is taught how to do both and is conditioned to the environment he…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Not only were the Nazis a murderous bunch they also stole and destroyed art , and denied the German people the right to read some of the most classic books. JRR Tolkien’s ‘the Hobbit’ was one of those books. However the book probably could have been published,if Tolkien would…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On November 6, 1939, Obersturmbannführer SS Bruno Müller ordered the the faculty of the University of Krakow to assemble for a special lecture to present the Nazis’ vision for Poland. Upon arrival the faculty found themselves among the first casualties of the systematic deconstruction of the country. Codenamed the Sonderaktion Krakau,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: ? In 1945 disillusioned Himmler believed victory had slipped from Germany’s grasp and secretly attempted to start peace negotiations with Eisenhower in a bid to escape a war crimes trial. But Eisenhower refused to have anything to do with Himmler. A furious Hitler declared Himmler a traitor, stripped him…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: +++++Contains distressing images++++++++ Chased by youth armed with clubs, this woman is fleeing from a “death dealer” whose left leg can be seen at the left-hand edge of the photograph. The Lviv pogroms were the consecutive massacres of Jews living in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), perpetrated…
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