May 2022

  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is a story which must have been repeated many times in Nazi Germany, German men married to Jewish women and the anxiety and fear they must have gone through, However there is also a uniqueness to the Machemer’s family situation. And in a bizarre way this is also…

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  • Who doesn’t know the Rock classic “I love Rock N Roll” by Joan Jett. Released in 1982. it sparked my lifelong love affair with Rock music. However, it may not be a widely known fact but the song had already been released in 1976, by the British Rock band Arrows. I saw him dancin’ there

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  • I am probably the most a-technical person on the planet. Fixing things is just something I am not equipped to do—it is why I admire people who can repair things. I love a show on the BBC called The Repair Shop. It is a British television show that aired on BBC Two for Series 1–3

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  • The Gloster Meteor

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: On this day 75 years ago the Gloster Meteor,  the first British jet fighter and the Allies’ only jet aircraft to achieve combat operations during WWII, made it’s first flight. Neill Michael Daunt was the first pilot to fly the Gloster Meteor on March  5 1943. ? Despite Germany’s technological advantage,…

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  • It is hard, if not impossible, to define what the most evil crime was during the Holocaust. It is not like there is a gradient scale you can apply. Without a doubt though the murder of children was among the most heinous of acts. One especially comes to mind. On 20 April 1945, on the

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  • Every self respecting Heavy Metal fan will know “Gonna get Close to you” by Queensryche. But how many know it was actually a cover version? The original was released in 1984 by Lisa Dalbello. I like to look at shadows sweating on the wallI get excited when I hear footsteps in the hallOutside your balcony

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  • Here they stand, brothers them allAll the sons, divided they’d fallHere await the birth of the sonThe seventh, the heavenly, the chosen oneOhhhh!Here the birth from an unbroken lineBorn the healer, the seventh, his timeUnknowingly blessed and as his life unfoldsSlowly unveiling the power he holdsOhhhh!Seventh son of a seventh sonSeventh son of a seventh

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  • ••••••••••WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES•••••••••• I have often argued that it would be unfair to brush all Germans with the same brush because some Germans did resist the Nazi regime. However, there is no denying that many were ignorant about what was happening to their neighbours who were either Jewish, Gay, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Disabled or Roma/Sinti,

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