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  • Evil Women

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: ? It wasn’t only men who committed heinous crimes in the concentration camps . There were many women who participated in torture and murder and often they enjoyed it. Some of the women were more evil then their male counterparts. Below are some of the lesser known female guards…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is a little known story which took place on the 13th of May 1944. The victims were Chinese citizens, not tortured and killed by Japanese but by the Gestapo in Hamburg,Germany. It requires a lot of imagination to recollect the past history that the Schmuckstraße as the center…

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  • Medical Troops in WWII

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: We often hear the stories of the special forces during WWII and without a shadow of a doubt they were all heroes. However the heroes that are often forgotten are those of the Medical Corps, while being shot at they ran into the battlefield to attend the wounded. The…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: The one thing I find the most difficult in doing these blogs, is to remain as objective as possible and to try to keep emotions like anger out of it. It is nearly impossible, especially when you come across a story like the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101. As…

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  • Deception and death.

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: I was struggling with the title of this blog and even about the contents. I was going to do a picture blog with pictures of some of the atrocities committed by the Nazis, and even though I have done blogs containing horrific images I realized that although a picture…

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  • Maastricht is one of my favourite cities. I grew up only about 10 miles away from it and would have visited it numerous times. It is, the most south eastern city in the Netherlands and is well known for its close proximity to Belgium and Germany. It is also the the home of violin virtuoso…

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  • Max von Sydow

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: Max von Sydow has always been one of my favourite actors, we also happen to share the same birthday.(well obviously I am a bit younger). Unfortunately we had to say farewell to this legend of the silver screen last Sunday March 8,. He was one of the most versatile…

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  • We will never know.

    Originally posted on History of Sorts: We will never know what you might have become. We will never know if you would discover a cure for cancer. We will never know if you would write the most beautiful love songs. We will never know how many house you might have built. We will never know…

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