February 2023
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Today marks the 117th birthday of Karl Amadeus Hartmann.He was born on 2 August 1905 in Munich and came into contact with art and music at an early stage. He studied trombone and composition at the Staatliche Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich from 1924 to 1929. He hated Nazism…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: No one can deny that the Roman Catholic church, and especially the Vatican. has a lot to answer for when it comes to their part in the Holocaust. However there were Catholic clergy men who did speak out to the Nazi regime and many of them paid the ultimate…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Holocaust wasn’t only the mass murder of Jews, and others, it was preceded by other crimes. Although many people would not have perceived them as crimes because they were legalised by Nazi laws. The rapacity of the Nazis was expressed in a large number of measures, orders and…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Cancel Culture seems to become more and more of a problem nowadays. Apparently the only opinions that matter are of those who get offended by literally everything. However they don’t realize that what they are doing is really a carbon copy of 1930s Nazi Germany, which eventually resulted in…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This episode of Epic Rock ballads, you will get 2 for the price of one. The original by the Who and the cover version by Limp Bizkit. “Behind Blue Eyes” is a song by the English rock band the Who, recorded in 1971. It was the second single from…
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Sometimes I struggle with finding a suitable title for a post. As it was for this post, but then he thought using just the raw data as the title is probably the best tribute for this family. The Family is the Chaim family Julius Chaim moved to Nijmegen on 15 October 1940, from Amsterdam. He
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I am always intrigued by “What if ?” scenarios, like what if Columbus had taken another route to India? Or what if JFK had not been in Dallas that day? But what intrigues me most of all is the question “What if the Nazis would have won the war?”…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Limburg is the most southern province in the Netherlands(there is also a province with that name in Belgium). It was one of the first places to be liberated in the Netherlands. By the end of September 1944 all of the province was liberated. Hanna Van de Voort was a…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Himmler, Seyss-Inquart and Rauter decided to set an example: the first roundup against Jews became a fact. On Saturday afternoon, February 22, 1941, a column of German trucks appeared near Waterlooplein. The area was completely cordoned off. Young Jewish men were ruthlessly herded together on Jonas Daniël Meijerplein,in Amsterdam.…
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