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  • Chocolate Bar Bomb

    I just don’t know how the war would have gone if the Germans had succeeded with these bombs. It gives a new meaning to the dessert name “death by chocolate,” The German bomb makers created explosive devices by coating a thin layer of rich dark chocolate and then packaging it in expensive-looking black and gold…

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  • They say a picture tells a thousand words. But it never tells the complete story. The photo above has a clear description of how evil men can be. Below are some testimonies and eyewitness accounts of liberators and survivors of the Holocaust. Gina Rappaport was liberated by the US Army in April 1945, after spending…

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  • The 4th of May is the date when all deaths from World War 2( and the last few years also from other conflicts) are remembered. At 8pm a 2 minutes silence is observed nationwide. There were 7,900 military death, 198,000 civilian deaths, of which 20,000 died between late September 1944 and early May 1945 due…

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  • Before I go into the story of Michael Hutchence, I have to advise that this blog does contain some erotic imagery, The imagery is meant to illustrate some acts. It will become clear why I am using this later in the blog. Michael K Hutchence was an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and actor. He co-founded the…

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  • On the 2nd of May a unit from the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, US Army, encountered Jewish inmates  who were put on a death march from Dachau and were approaching Waakirchen. The US soldiers were almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry (Nisei) During these marches, also called the “death marches”, at least…

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  • April 30,1945 was a day that would have given a great sense of relief for millions around the globe, that was the day that Adolf Hitler decided to take his own life. However for a few people it was a day filled with tragedy. Four Dutch Jewish citizens died that day in Bergen Belsen. Although…

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  • Mauthausen

    In March 1938, Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. The event is known as the Anschluß. On March 12 1938 the first German troops marched into Austria, they were met with no resistance, and the majority of Austrians welcomed the Anschluß. Five months later Mauthausen Concentration Camp went into operation. Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration…

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  • There were 4 concentration camps in the Netherlands. The best known was Westerbork, the other 3 were Vught,Amersfoort and Ommen. A relatively unknown fact is that there were also an estimated 42 work/labour camps. Between January 1942 and October 1942 , the Jewish work camps in the Netherlands spread across the countrie from which unemployed…

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  • All stories of children murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust are enormously sad on many levels. The story of Helga Renate Sara Zons is particularly heartbreaking. There are no pictures of her, just a death certificate to remember her. The certificate was issued ten years after the Nazis murdered her. What makes it very…

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  • BloodyMir Putin

    Dear Comrade Putin, You tell us that you don’t want a war. You are only conducting this ‘military operation’ in Ukraine to create peace. You say you want-Mir-I believe that is ‘Peace’ in the Russian language. But if this is really ‘mir’ then please do explain it to that poor man in Odessa, who went…

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