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Hans Eppinger Jr. (January 5, 1879 – September 25, 1946) was an Austrian physician who performed experiments upon concentration camp prisoners. Below is a line from the Hippocratic oath , an oath taken by physicians. “I will, according to my ability and judgment, prescribe a regimen for the health of the sick; but I will…
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The MV Kerloguehas become the exemplar of neutral Irish ships during World War II. She was very small. She was attacked by both sides and rescued people from both sides. She was almost sunk by a German mine and was attacked by the Royal Air Force, being left for dead. She rescued the Wild Rose of…
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+++++++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++++++++ Surgeon General Shirō Ishii ( June 25, 1892 – October 9, 1959) was a Japanese army medical officer, microbiologist and the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army involved in forced and frequently lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War and WWII. UNIT 731-Japanese WWII Experiments Torture techniques conjured up…
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Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party) in Germany, gay men and, to a lesser extent, lesbians, were two of the numerous groups targeted by the Nazis and were ultimately among Holocaust victims. Beginning in 1933, gay organizations were banned, scholarly books about homosexuality, and sexuality…
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Serial killers are not just a western phenomenon. There are and there have been serial killer all over the globe. However the story of Seisaku Nakamura is an even more disturbing one, the reason being is that he killed his first victims when he was aged 14. Seisaku Nakamura (1924 – 1943) is also known as Hamamatsu…
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Although the Netherlands was liberated on the 5th of May and VE day was on the 8th of May. It took more then a month after the official liberation of Europe for this Island at the north of the country to be liberated. It was on the 11th of June 1945 before Schiermonnikoog was…
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++++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++ Another remind how cruel humanity can be. Dead inmates discovered in the concentration camp at Buchenwald after its liberation on April 11 by the U.S. 6th Armored Division. An estimated 56,000 victims had been murdered at Buchenwald and its subcamps. At a Belgian crossroads in the early hours of the battle of…
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The most vulnerable in society are children and even more vulnerable the children with a disability. They deserve love and care more then anyone else. However the Nazi regime had a different philosophy. To them these poor souls were the impure and undesirable and there was no space for them in the Third Reich. Am…
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This blog contains pictures depicting the Human side of World War 2. Among all the destruction and evil there were moments of compassion, let us never forget about that. A wounded Australian soldier being helped by a local during World War II. (Papua New Guinea, 1942) Two American soldiers, comforting a little girl by giving…
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We know all about Rommel and his Africa Korps and Montgomery’s X Corps. The Battle of El Alamein is one of the most famous battles of World War 2, but all of this took place in the North of Africa Very little is known about the South African involvement in WWII. During World War II,…
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