August 2022
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: People nowadays often complain when a train is running late, me included by the way. However recently I have changed my way of thinking about that. Throughout Europe, during World War 2 the railways were used to accommodate an industrialized scale of murder. This could only be done of…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Maurice is a British sculptor and a former President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. He is known for his figurative male sculpture. He was born in Amsterdam on April 21,1939. much of his art is influenced by his experience of his time in Bergen Belsen concentration camp…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On 9 February 1941. members of the Dutch Nazi party, NSB, assisted by German soldiers, forced their way into the café-cabaret ‘Alcazar’ on Thorbeckeplein because Jewish artists were still performing there. This led to a brawl in which 23 people were injured. Clara de Vries was a jazz trumpet…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The picture above is of an Opel Bliz troops transporter, Opel is one of the companies that provided the Nazi regime with equipment but also with funding. But Opel was not the only company. Funding the Nazis already started early 1930s. Nineteen representatives of industry, finance, and agriculture signed…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Amadeus, Goya’s Ghosts; Man on he Moon, these are some of my favourite movies. They were all directed by Miloš Forman. For two of them he received an academy award aka Oscar. That on its own is extraordinary, but it is nothing compared…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Earlier this week I had one question and one statement about concentration camps. The question was “What are the differences between a concentration camp and an extermination camp?” This question I will try to address as much as possible in this blog. But before I do that I want…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: One of the most iconic pictures of women during WWII is the picture of Lee Miller sitting in Adolf Hitler’s bathtub, in his Munich apartment in 1945. “I was living in Hitler’s private apartment in Munich when his death was announced.” she said afterwards. Lee Miller however wasn’t just…
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In August 1942, a group of refugees from the Netherlands was arrested in Belgium. The men were placed in Breendonk, and the women and children were placed in the Jewish orphanage. They were all very young children. In the end they were all deported to Auschwitz and murdered upon arrival on August 28, 1942. Below
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This image was taken in London at the start of WWII.That is how big the fear was in Great Britain of a gas attack. The pram is supposed to be gas proof and the mother is wearing a gas mask. Two guards of Buchenwald concentration camp who were beaten…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Abba Kovner was a somewhat controversial figure and by today’s standards he could be considered a terrorist, but as the saying goes “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” But considering what he witnessed one can not blame him for some of his actions after the war. Abba…
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