History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Like lambs to the slaughter they were led.But with one significant difference, lambs were treated more humanely. They were not tortured before death. I recently saw the movie “The Resistance Banker” it has one subtle but yet powerful scene, no words were spoken. A regular passenger train is stopped…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Being a Parent is the hardest job in the world. The sleepless nights, the dirty diapers, the countless times being peed on.Also the worries when your baby has a bit of a temperature, the millions of scenarios of what could go wrong with your child. But all of that…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I wish I could tell you that this picture was used to have a good laugh at my history teacher Benno Redisch. That the picture was handed to us by his wife , to use in a presentation of his 10th anniversary as a teacher. But he was not…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Grietje Lea Philippus Cohen-van Bergen such a long name. Although there is quite a lot of data about her , there is still very little known about her. Born in Weesp, the Netherlands on 9 September 1884. Daughter of Philippus Hartog van Bergen en Maria Levie de Vries. Married…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On July,22 1942, the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto began, as thousands were rounded up daily and transported to a newly constructed concentration/extermination camp at Treblinka, in Poland. On July 17, Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi SS, arrived at Auschwitz, the concentration camp in eastern…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On the twenty-ninth of May, 1942, Radio Prague announced that Reinhard Heydrich, Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, lay dying at the Bulovka hospital in Prague from wounds sustained in a daring ambush by Czech partisans as his car passed through the city outskirts at Holesovice, on the Rude Armady…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On this day in 1939 Adolf Hitler signed an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people, the so called T4 program. https://dirkdeklein.net/2016/04/08/forgotten-history-the-t-4-holocaust-victimsthe-killing-of-the-disabled/ The T4 program, which was was basically the gassing of people who were deemed mentally ill, was the first wave of mass extermination by the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Outside of the US not that much is really known about the American Civil war, we know the basics but not really the in depth history. Often there is a romantic view of the war based on Hollywood depictions of the time, or shows like North and South. The…
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