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The plan of the Nazis was to eradicate anyone who they deemed not worthy. This didn’t mean only killing but also ensuring that not one person, who the Nazis considered subhuman, would be born. On July 14,1933 the Nazi regime fulfilled the long-held dreams of eugenics proponents by enacting the Law for the Prevention of…
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Education is the key to a better world and to end ignorance and racism. However if education does not include an element of critical thinking, it is open to abuse and it can be used to indoctrinate young impressionable minds, or any impressionable mind really. This blog will refer to the education in the Third…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The?St. Stephen’s College massacre??involved a series of acts of extreme cruelty committed by the?Imperial Japanese Army?on 25 December 1941 during the?Japanese occupation of Hong Kong?at?St. Stephen’s College. Several hours before the British surrendered on?Christmas day?at the end of the?Battle of Hong Kong, Japanese soldiers entered St. Stephen’s College, which…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Dutch government in exile , also known as the London Cabinet () was the government in exile of the Netherlands, headed by Queen Wilhelmina, that evacuated to London after the German invasion of the country during World War II.It was established on May 13 1940. Prior to 1940,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Dear Simone Frajermauer you were 3 when you were murdered in Auschwitz. It was August 3 1944. It was 24 years before I was born. I never met you but yet you broke my heart. Now on this day July 11,2021 your eyes stared into mine and they have a…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, DSO & Bar, PC (29 March 1880 – 6 November 1944) was an Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assassinated by the Jewish terrorist group Lehi. The…
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Born Richard Starkey, Ringo got the first half of his nickname while playing in bands with Eddie Clayton and Rory Storm. They called him Ringo because he wore multiple rings on both of his hands. As for the second half of his name, Starr seems to be just a slight shortening of Starkey. However, the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It was shortly after midnight—on the 30th of July, 1945—when disaster struck. After delivering the Hiroshima-bomb components to Tinian Island, the USS Indianapolis and her crew of 1,196 sailors were sailing west, toward Leyte (in the Philippines). At 00:14 on 30 July, she was struck on her starboard side by two Type 95 torpedoes, one in the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is not meant to be an accusation because since I didn’t live in those times, I just don’t know how I would have reacted. It is however something that has intrigued me.How come the majority of the Germans and Austrians did not see how wrong the November pogrom…
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