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Originally posted on msamba: Jamie has a profound learning disability. Despite being close to nonverbal, he demonstrates charisma, a sharp sense of humour, and emotional sensitivity. A selection of Short of the Week, the web’s leading curators of quality short films.
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Sigmund Rascher was without a shadow if a doubt one of the most evil men of the Nazi regime. He was an SS Doctor in service of the Luftwaffe and was one of Himmler’s favourites. Rascher’s wife the actress ,Karoline “Nini” Diehl, was a friend of Himmler, rumours had…
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Originally posted on The Dutch Luthier: Perhaps you have already caught a glimpse of my research project of last year. It slipped in on some photos and social media postings. But I haven’t had the possibility to write too much about it earlier. The reason? Like most of my research projects – it completely exploded.…
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This is a chat show presented by Dirk de Klein. On this episode Dirk’s guests are Grant Gochin and Silvia Foti. Grant and Silvia have been campaigning against the Lithuanian government in relation to the revised history of Lithuania’s part in the Holocaust. Some of Grant’s family were murdered in Lithuania during the Holocaust. One…
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Originally posted on War and Security: In 1934, there was a debate within the RAF about whether its next generation of fighters, the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire, should have four or eight 0.303 inch Colt Browning machine guns. These guns had the same calibre of ammunition as the British Army’s Lee Enfield rifles.…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: In case you are wondering if the headline of this article is a typo, it is not, Field Marshall Milch was Jewish. Milch was born in Wilhelmshaven, the son of Anton Milch, a Jewish pharmacist who served in the Imperial German Navy, and Clara Milch, née Vetter. Due to his…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Victims Killed Jews 5.93 million Ethnic Poles 2.7–3.2 million Ukrainian Slavs 3 million Soviet POWs 2–3 million Belarusian Slavs 1.5 million Serbs 300,000–500,000 Disabled 270,000 Romani 90,000–220,000 Freemasons 80,000–200,000 Slovenes 20,000–25,000 Homosexuals 5,000–15,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses 2,500–5,000 Spanish Republicans 7,000 ? The numbers are truly staggering but to be honest…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Olympic Games are the biggest sporting events in the world. But more then a sporting event is is also a political event filled with propaganda. This was never more clear then in 1936 during the Berlin Olympic Games. On July 26,1935,German sports commissioner Hans von Tschammer und Osten…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Medical Doctors generally work closely together with Pharmacists. During the Holocaust this was not much different. Victor Capesius was born to a doctor of German descent in 1907, in a part of Romania which then belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied in Romania and Vienna where, in 1933,…
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