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  • I heard a Holocaust survivor say “The Germans(citizens) weren’t vicious, they were just indifferent” No one is born indifferent , you are conditioned that way and shortly after WWI, conditions were created where someone could step in and condition the Germans to be indifferent. It was reporter Edgar A. Mowrer who stated “Hitler is not an intellectual…

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  • Happy Birthday Earth

    I would like to wish this blue planet called earth a happy birthday , because on this day 23 October 4004 BC at 6 pm, earth was created. Well this is according Archbishop James Ussher. (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin was highly regarded in his…

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  • Smoke gets in your eyes

    I never smoked, really only because I did not see the fascination of spending an enormous amount of money to see something go up in smoke. However most of my family were or still are smokers and I do feel sorry for smokers. I do think they get a bad press. Yes, smoking is bad…

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  • A threat to the nation

    I can nearly understand why adult civilians could be perceived as a threat to the nations.Although I know the reasons why I still don’t comprehend them. But children, why? Of course this is the way the Nazi’s wanted to ensure that the ‘undesirables’ would have no future. I have done blogs on the young victims…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: Princess Leia is one of the most iconic cinema characters that has ever been. Be it in a golf bikini or with donuts in her hair, everyone knows who she is. Everyone aged 1 to 100. Alas the Princess passed away on 27 December 2016. ? it was Billy…

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  • Vietnam War

    It is often though that the Vietnam war started in the 60s, but in fact it dates back much further then that. It really started on the 19th of December 1946. In February Ho Chi Minh had already sent a telegram  to U.S. President Harry S. Truman requesting support for independence. The First Indochina War (December 1946 to…

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  • No I haven’t suddenly gone all ultra nice, as many of you know the title of this blog is actually the 1st line of the classic Rolling Stones song”Sympathy for the devil” A song which is often misunderstood for being some satanic worshiping bit of musical poetry, but it couldn’t be further away from that.…

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  • Who doesn’t remember the iconic car from Back to the Future? Or should I perhaps say the ironic car from Back to the Future,because although it couldn’t have  hoped for a better marketing tool then the movie franchise, the DeLorean DMC-12 completely failed. Despite it’s ultra-cool appearance  not many people actually bought a DeLorean car. They were…

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  • Sinfra was a cargo ship built in 1929 as Fernglen by Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Oslo, Norway, for a Norwegian shipping company. The ship was sold to Swedish owners in 1934 and to a French company in 1939, on the last occasion having her name changed to Sinfra. Sinfra was confiscated by German authorities in 1942, and used by them in the Mediterranean. On 19 October 1943, Sinfra was bombed…

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  • Basically I could make this blog the shortest ever. None of the Nazis were Aryans. I could leave it with that because it’d be true. Below is the definition of Aryan. ‘Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient…

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