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More so than any other extermination or concentration camp is Auschwitz associated with the mass extermination of Jews. However it did not start of that way. At the beginning Auschwitz was a relatively ‘small’ camp and the first prisoners were Polish political prisoners, most of them were Catholic and only 20 or so were Jews.…
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On this day 400 years ago the first Dutch newspaper was published. Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. was the first Dutch newspaper and published weekly. The paper does not reveal the name of the printer or the publisher, but based on similar papers published later, it is thought that Joris Veseler was the printer and…
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In April 1945 the allied troops forced the citizens of Neunburg,Germany to face up to some of the atrocities ordered and committed by their elected government. They were made to look at bodies of Jewish and other slave laborers in woods outside Neunberg, where they were marched from a Nazi Gestapo camp and where thy…
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So many involved in the Nazi atrocities did get off so lightly or escaped punishment altogether. How the judges in the war crimes trials came to some of the sentences or lack thereof has always been a puzzle to me. Additionally there were also many how fled to countries where they knew they would face…
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What did you see when shot me? Did you see a threat to your life? Did you see a Monster? Did you see someone who insulted your mother or wife? Did you see a sadistic murderer? Did you feel like a hero when you pulled that trigger? Did you feel good when you saw my…
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This is one of those men that makes me proud to be Dutch, and like me he has also a connection with Ireland. He was born in Hattem, a small town in the east of the Netherlands. His father was an officer in the Dutch Navy. Willem studied mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he…
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A historical fact that is often forgotten is that the last German emperor did not die in Germany but in the Netherlands. In the town of Doorn on 4 June 1941, at the age of 82. The Nazis had already taken control of the Netherlands for more then a year at that stage. Wilhelm II lived…
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What a sense of relief it must have been when the French people found out that the allied troops had finally arrived on June 6 1944. Unfortunately though D-Day wasn’t the end of the war it was only the start of the end and many innocent lives were still lost between that day and the…
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1978 must have been one of the most significant years well at least in a pop culture way, the amount of classic movies that were released that year and classic songs is just phenomenal. Lets start with some of the songs. Wuthering Heights Written by an 18 year old Kate Bush taken from the album…
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