History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is a picture of Emmi G,a victim of the T4 euthanasia program. Killed because she was ‘different’. What makes her story even sadder is the fact that we don’t even know her full name. All we know is that she was 16 when she was killed with an…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Every year since 1963, the Space Medicine Association has given out the Hubertus Strughold Award to a top scientist or clinician for outstanding work in aviation medicine. Dr. Hubertus Strughold (1898-1986) is known as the “Father of Space Medicine”. He first coined the term “space medicine” in 1948 and…
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Helene Wegbrejt it is just a random name She lived in Paris. She was French and Jewish. Her birthday was September 16,1930. She would have been 89 today,but she didn’t even get to age 12. She was murdered in August 1942 in Auschwitz. She was one of many on Transport 20 from Pithiviers to Auschwitz…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Holocaust a word that everyone knows the meaning off but yet no one understands. No one understands why it happened, at least not really. People will say it is because the political ideology of a few, who wanted eradicate all of those who they deemed undesirable. But…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: ? 76 years ago you embarked on something that had never been done before. 156,000 of you were dropped on the beaches in Normandy. 156,000 just imagine that. It is the equivalent of a medium sized city, like Alexandria in Virginia USA. Not all 156,000 made it, thousands died…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: For me it is unfathomable to even imagine what the victims of the Holocaust had to endure. I don’t think I would have the strength to persevere and yet there were those who did. They did not give up hope and just kept going. Below are just some pictures…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: A while ago I read a comment of someone saying that she could no longer read stories about the Holocaust, not because she didn’t want to but because she couldn’t because the stories were so sad, they were heartbreaking. I can fully appreciate that, because it is heartbreaking and…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is going to be a short blog. This time 2 years ago I visited the American War Cemetery in Margraten,in the Netherlands . I had planned to go again this year but alas the current global situation prevents me from doing so I visited 2 years ago to…
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