History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: How did become the first day of the 4th month, aka April 1, the day of trying to fool people or to play pranks on them. Since I come from a long line of pranksters and it appears it has transferred into the newest generations of the family, I…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: No one can deny that the Nazis committed unspeakable atrocities during World War 2,against civilians. But the Nazis were not the only ones. On October 21, 1944, the Soviet Red Army was steamrolling the German army on the Eastern Front, reaching the town of Nemmersdorf, at the time it…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: No matter how you twist or turn it, when you are complicit to a crime, you are just as guilty as the perpetrator, and perhaps even more guilty because you were an enabler of that crime. Hermann Stieve was Director of the Berlin Institute of Anatomy from 1935 to…
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Originally posted on Utopia, you are standing in it!: https://youtu.be/c5RbJCQLTjQ
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Originally posted on I didn't have my glasses on….: “the most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.” -james newman
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Ernst Friedrich Christoph “Fritz” Sauckel was a Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Gau Thuringia from 1927 and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Arbeitseinsatz) from March 1942 until the end of World War 2. He was one the 24 persons accused in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals…
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In the past I have been very critical of my fellow Dutch men and women, in relation to the role they played during World War 2. While most opposed the Nazi occupation, they did very little to resist. Of course it is very easy to be critical looking back. In all honesty if I would
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Sonja would have been 80 today. But as the title suggests she was murdered when she was only 5 months old. She was the product of love between two people. Her parents were, Mother, Frederika van Amerongen-Veffer and her Father, Philip van Amerongen. Sonja’s Mother was a seamstress and her Father a butcher. Just regular
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-4rY4g4Do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c4v7fp5GC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZXnJ4UYh40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYngpjTCXXg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MJRmA99kHc
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