March 2021
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: HMS Mashona was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service in the Second World War. She was built by Vickers Armstrong, with her machinery supplied by Parsons. She was authorised in the program year 1936. Mashona was laid down on 5 August 1936, launched on 3…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Riegner Telegram was a telegraph message sent on 8 August 1942 from Gerhart Riegner, then Secretary of World Jewish Congress (Geneva), to its New York and London offices. The cable confirmed the alarming reports that had reached the West previously about the German intention to mass murder the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Last week a lady asked me how was it possible that people committed so may awful atrocities during WWII, did their conscience not bother them. She also thought it must have taken years for people to be indoctrinated in evil thinking. I told her that it actually takes a…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: January 8 is a significant date in music history. On this day 3 musical legends and Icons were born. I wont’t go too much into their lives because there is very little I can add. Aside from being tow extraordinary artists , there is another connection to these 2…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I don’t know how often I have seen this picture but it is today it finally broke my heart. I sat down and looked at it for a few minutes. Where before I only saw an woman, probably an elderly woman and 3 children walking towards the gas chambers.…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It is funny how some social media posts are now being used in a similar fashion as the propaganda of the 1930s’ to 1945 in Germany. One should never underestimate the perception of ‘truth’. Just because someone says it is true doesn’t mean it is and just because someone…
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