History
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On May 30, 1943, Dr. Joseph Mengele began his “work” at Auschwitz. Unlike other camp physicians, who were assigned to prisoner selections according to a rotating schedule, Mengele actively sought this duty. He was the only doctor to volunteer for selections when new transports arrived by train and would sometimes ask to take over another
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It’s not every day one gets a chance to do a blog about one’s own death, and especially not before breakfast, but hey history is history. But before you start sending flowers and cards etc, the Dirk in the title is not me of course , but Count Dirk III of Holland, or West Friesland
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We have all seen the pictures of the cattle wagons used to transport the Jews and other ‘Undesirables’ to the concentration camps and ghettos. Without a shadow of a doubt the Nazi Railways network played a pivotal role in the ‘Final Solution’ .Ironically(for the lack of a better word) though the same network also potentially
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I have to be honest, the title and the 2 pictures above are a bit misleading. Yes this blog is about the relationship between Hitler and Wagner but with Winifred Wagner , the daughter in law of Richard, the wife of Siegfried Wagner, the son of the composer. Winifred Wagner (born Winifred Marjorie Williams; 23
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It is a popular misconception that the concentration camps were a Nazi invention, but in fact the British had already established concentration camps in South Africa during the 2nd Boer war. It could be argued that the Indian reservations in the US were also concentration camps. But of course the sort of camps which were
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If there would be a King of Blues it probably would be Robert Johnson. He was also one of the first of the ‘Club of 27’ musicians who all died age 27. I wonder if anyone born after 1990 knows of this musical legend. The blues is no doubt the foundation of Rock N Roll
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Some of the perpetrators of the Holocaust just went about their business as if it was the most natural thing in the world. In the above photograph, you see a picture of the first German commander of Camp Schoorl SS-Untersturmführer Schmidt visiting Amsterdam as if he was a tourist. He is just one of the
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Before you all start writing to me about the obvious error in the title, let me assure you it’s not an error, neither is it one of his plays. William Shakespeare had 3 children, 2 daughters Susanna and Judith and one son called Hamnet. Susanna was born in May 1583, six months after the wedding of
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On January 27 in 1945, Soviet troops walked through the gates of the Auschwitz complex, and I say complex—because Auschwitz was more than one camp. What they saw, they could not believe. Rather than going through all the horrors on this UN-designated Holocaust Remembrance Day, I have opted to show some art of those who
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