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The title is not a tagline for a Hollywood blockbuster, although it should have been. I am sure it would have made a great movie. James Stewart and Walter Matthau served together in the 453rd Bombardment Group during World War II. Prior to becoming a Hollywood icon, Walter Matthau was a radioman-gunner in the U.S.…
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I was going to put a lot of pictures in this blog, but then when I looked at this picture I thought that it would be enough. A class, class mates and a teacher, like any other class in any other school. Except it isn’t. Here the children are taught to hate. The kids standing…
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Nothing was sacred and nothing was spared during WWII, not even the hallow grounds of the All-England Lawn Tennis Club otherwise known as ;Wimbledon’. Although the club was closed for all matches in the war years. Rather then having Tennis players run over its lawns civil defense and military personnel made use of the All-England Club. It …
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I am a father of three children, and every time they leave the house—a million scenarios go through my head of things that could happen to them, but I am not unique in this because it is what fathers and mothers do—they worry for their kids. Otto Frank was a father, and a husband, to…
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I wish I could myself in your shoes and understand what you went through, but I can’t. I could never understand the pain you suffered or the hate you encountered. Nor could I imagine the anxiety you must have had. I wish I could myself in your shoes or see the world through your eyes,…
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July 4th, Independence day, a great day for the USA, but also an important day for other nations. However for 2 of the Founding Fathers the 4th of July turned out to be not such a great day after all.On July 4 1826, the 50th anniversary John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died. Just before Adams…
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Der Stürmer is probably the most vile newspaper ever published. It was nothing more then Julius Streicher’s Anti-Semitic propaganda tabloid. It was however popular and made Streicher a wealthy man. It wasn’t the official Nazi newspaper, in fact some leading Nazis did not like it at all. Joseph Goebbels tried to ban the newspaper in…
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Before you read this blog, have a close look at the above picture. It is a picture of an SS soldier, and you have probably seen many pictures like it, but there is something special about this one.On the sleeve on the left arm, at the left bottom, you can see part of a flag,…
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Not only were the Nazis a murderous bunch, they also stole and destroyed art and denied the German people the right to read some of the most classic books. JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit was one of those books. However, the book could have been published if Tolkien had neglected his principles. However, such was the character…
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The terror the Jews ,in Nazi Germany, had to undergo was not only physical. Probably the most sickest aspect was the psychological terror. The Nazis took over every element in the lives of the Jews, they decided who lived and died. And none of the victims knew when their time would come, because the criteria…
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