December 2025
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This season comes with lights aglow,With songs the world expects to sing,Yet some hearts walk a quieter road,Still holding echoes of everything. The chair is empty, the voice is gone,The laughter lives in memory’s air,And every ritual carries a nameYou still, instinctively, look for there. If joy feels distant, you need not pretend.If tears arrive,
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I have posted similar blogs like this before and I won’t apologize for that because it is important to understand how warped the Nazi ideology was. They killed babies and children not by accident but deliberately, Children who often could not even walk yet were seen as enemies of the state. The above picture is
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I find it always intriguing to look back at old news papers and especially old headlines. They often transport you back to days of yore. Following are just some random old news papers pages. Midnight Globe, August 1978 (Priscilla Presley and John Travolta) Sid Vicious was to appear in court this afternoon accused of stabbing
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General Anthony Clement “Nuts” McAuliffe (July 2, 1898 – August 11, 1975) was a senior United States Army officer, who earned fame as the acting commander of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division troops defending Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge towards the end of World War II. On December 22, 1944, at about 11:30
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A slight diversion from my heavy historical posts (which are still very important) I thought it to be nice to lighten the load a bit with some nice guitar music, Just a random choice of great guitarists from across the globe Harry Sacksioni – Thee Bij Tante Josephine Yngwie Malmsteen trilogy suite op 5 Hans
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Josef Mengele was born in Günzburg on 16 March 1911, the oldest of three sons of Walburga (née Hupfauer) and Karl Mengele. His two younger brothers were Karl Jr. and Alois. There is an eerie coincidence here, Alois was also the name of the Father of the man he came to admire and serve, Adolf
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I have to admit I was a bit skeptical about this story. Not so much about the words that were uttered, but more to who uttered them. I was listening to a golden oldie show earlier this week. The presenter mentioned a bit of trivia in relation to the famous Beatles song, “Hey Jude” arrogant
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Although he was a highly controversial character there are two things that no one can deny.1. He was a hero,2. he was and is a legend. The commander of the U.S. Third Army, General George S. Patton, Jr., took no great pleasure in the end of the war in Europe; he already knew that despite
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For Hitler to accomplish his goals, he needed the support of men who were equally as evil as he was. His most willing henchman was Joseph Göbbels. Paul Joseph Göbbels was born on October 29, 1897, in Rheydt, Germany, an industrial city in the Rhineland. Because of a club foot that he acquired during a
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Jawischowitz was a sub-camp located in the village of Jawiszowice (German: Jawischowitz). Prisoners held there were forced to work in two shafts of the Brzeszcze coal mine, situated in Jawiszowice and Brzeszcze. The camp began operating in mid-August 1942, when 150 French Jews arrived under an agreement between the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office
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