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Dutch Christmas is slightly different from other Christmas celebrations. On the 5th of December, the Dutch celebrate “Sinterklaas” Saint Nicholas, although it is the same figure as Santa Claus or Father Christmas. There are subtle differences in the “configuration” Sinterklaas doesn’t come from Lapland but from Spain and arrives on a steamboat and a white
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I always considered myself to be a bit of a World War II buff, but it was only when I started this website I realized how little I knew about World War II. This case is a good example. Venlo is a town in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands, in the Southeast of
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“A child is born with no state of mind,blind to the ways of mankind” I would never have imagined I would use the words of a 1980’s hip hop song in a blog relating to WWII. The words are from the 1982 Hip Hop hit “the Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. But
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While the world is remembering the 62nd Anniversary of the Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I want to focus on a different aspect of JFK, his time during World War II. Specifically, his time on PT 109. “The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the NAVY and MARINE CORPS MEDAL to/ LIEUTENANT
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It should never be forgotten that it was Germans who voted for Adolf Hitler. No matter how you twist and turn it, there is no escaping that fact. However, National Socialism and Fascism were not just German political ideologies—they were international. Most of Europe and even the USA subscribed to a level of National Socialism
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November 22, 1963, is a date forever etched into the fabric of American history. It was the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, plunging the nation into shock and sorrow. Amid the chaos and heartbreak of that day, another tragedy unfolded—a story often overshadowed but no less significant. It was the killing of Dallas
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I am a parent and my job like any other parent’s job on the globe is to keep my children safe from harm or at least reduce the risk of harm in whatever way possible. That is an extremely difficult job in normal circumstances.During the Holocaust this was often impossible. I can understand that parents
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The mistake that is often made in describing the Nazis, who were responsible for millions of deaths, is that they are called ‘monsters’ The scary thing is they weren’t monsters, they were human beings,extremely evil ones but human beings nonetheless.By calling them monsters, you provide an excuse for the crimes they committed, for what else
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Heinrich Himmler must have been without a shadow of a doubt one of the craziest of the Nazis. He had a bizarre fascination for the occult. Karl Maria Wiligut had been one of Himmler’s closest influancers relating to the occult of the Aryan and Germanic race. Karl Maria Wiligut (alias Weisthor, Jarl Widar, Lobesam) (10
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Operation Silbertanne (silver fir) was the codename of a series of murders taking place between September 1943 and September 1944 during the German occupation of the Netherlands. The assassinations were carried out by a death squad composed of Dutch members of the SS and Dutch veterans of the Eastern Front. The objective of the operation was
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