April 2021
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Holocaust would not have been possible without the help of the railways, at least not to the extend as it happened. The Deutsche Reichsbahn was headed by Julius Dorpmüller, who was also Reich Minister for Transport, but it was his deputy , Albert Ganzenmüller, who had the responsibility for the organisation…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: AFC Ajax is one of the most well known football clubs in Europe if not the world.Aside from dozens of national trophies it also won 12 international trophies, a feat repeated by only a few other clubs. Historically, Ajax was popularly seen as having “Jewish roots”. Although not an…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Kamikaze translates into divine wind and refers to a typhoon that destroyed an enemy fleet in the 13th century. In the middle of the 13th century, Mongol fleets sailed to attack a helpless Japan. As the invaders approached the Japanese coast, terrific winds arose, smashed the Mongol ships and…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: They say I am their enemy but yet I don’t know them and have never seen them before. Why are they taking my glasses and my shoes, they are not weapons. Why are they making this so personal, what is it that I have done? I really would like…
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Willie Nelson is probably the last ,together with Kris Kristofferson, great Country and Western performers. At least one of the last who has the same caliber as Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves, and Freddy Fender. Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas, on April 29, 1933,the son of Myrle Marie (née Greenhaw) and Ira Doyle Nelson.His birth
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Martha Gellhorn was a pioneering female journalist who often reported from the front lines during World War II. Her father was Jewish, and her mother was a protestant. She was married to Ernest Hemingway from 1940–1945. She was the only woman to land in Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944—D-Day. She was also one of
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Roddie Edmonds and many of his fellow US Army mates were captured by Nazi forces on 19 December 1944, during the battle of the Bulge . Some of them were sent to Stalag IX B Edmonds was the senior noncommissioned officer (Master Sergeant), and was therefore responsible for the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The worst crimes by the Nazi regime were those conducted in the name of science, the human experiments, there were many experiments below are only a few of them. Experiments on twins Experiments on twin children in concentration camps were created to show the similarities and differences in the genetics of…
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