History

General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2

  • Turn Back Time

    If I could turn back time, would I bring my lost loved ones back to life?Or would I, in doing so, only return them to more pain and suffering? If I could turn back time, would I revisit the place where I first met my wife?Would she still be there, smiling the same way?How different…

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  • It is strange how you can come across some stories. I was actually doing some research on the fate of the pets of Jews during the Holocaust, when a picture came up of Leo Katzenberger. What drew my attention was that Leo looked a lot like one of my Uncles, who was also called Leo;…

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  • I have already done a piece on the Milgram experiments, and this will be more of a follow up. The Milgram experiment,was designed to observe the extent to which individuals would perform acts that violated their personal conscience when under orders from an authority figure. Basically they wanted  to investigate whether Germans were particularly obedient…

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  • The Holocaust is often best described in the simplicity of the art and words of the child victims. Below are some poems and drawings from children of the Holocaust. The painting above was by a child interred in the Terezin Camp during the Holocaust. She dreamed of seeing butterflies again. At TerezínWhen a new child…

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  • The forgotten WWII massacre

    Although this blog is about a massacre which killed 750,000 victims within a week, not everyone reading this will be shocked about it. At the beginning of World War II, a government pamphlet led to a massive cull of British pets. As many as 750,000 British pets were killed in just one week. In 1939…

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  • After the liberation of Germany in May 1945 the Allied Powers initiated a comprehensive denazification program. Its purpose was to eradicate National Socialist thought from political, economic as well as intellectual and cultural life. As a first step the NSDAP and its subdivisions were prohibited, Nazi laws were abolished and the external signs and symbols…

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  • I often hear people say ‘that teenagers never had it as hard as they do now’. In a time where my generation failed to equip these teenagers with the resilience to deal with adversity, it is the absolute wrong message to sent out. In this post there will be small bios of teenagers who were…

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  • The title is taken from a  letter written by Marcel Nadjari ,a Jewish-Greek survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau. Marcel  was a member of the Sonderkommando in Birkenau from May 1944 to November 1944. The letter is an eye witness account of his experiences as a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz Birkenau. He had the task of of removing…

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  • Funhouse Mirrors

    A blog by my good friend Grant Gochin. Lithuania’s Genocide Centre never examined the judgment it used to defend a Holocaust collaborator. Now it is a European partner teaching source criticism. Vladimir Putin justified his invasion of Ukraine by claiming to protect people from genocide. On 16 March 2022 the International Court of Justice ordered…

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  • On August 16 ,1933 Hermann Göring announced he would put an end to the unbearable torture and suffering in animal experiments. He also threatened that he would commit to concentration camps those who still thought they could continue to treat animals as inanimate property. He decried the “cruel”experiments of unfeeling scientists whose animals were operated…

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