History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I was born with a promise of life. A life full of joy and excitement, but also a life of sometimes sadness A life of play and learning new skills every day. A life which is unique , so very much the same as other but yet totally different.…
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It is often asked “Why did the people not stand up against the Nazi regime?” I have even asked this question, especially when it came to me fellow Dutchmen. But it is easy to judge in hindsight. I wonder how many who asked that question would have stood up against the regime(and I include myself),…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: How do you best deal with a bully? You ridicule him. The bully in this blog is Adolf Hitler and how painful and embarrassing it must have been for him to be ridiculed by something produced by a Jew. I would have loved to have seen his face after…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is slight deviation from my usual heavier history blogs. Every once in a while something lighthearted is needed. The Netherlands, a small country in the Northwest of Europe. Known for great painters and footballers and for Tulips and windmills and a lot of other things. It is however…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: One event that is often over looked in the wider context of WWII is one of the first actions of the war. On September 1,1939 the Germans cut the phone and electricity lines to the Post office of Gdansk. At the time there were 56 people in the building.…
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I am not a great fan of statistics because without the full story behind them, they can be manipulated and often they are. However sometimes they can be useful to indicate a scale, In this the scale of death and destruction during the Holocaust. Between July 15,1942 and 13 September 1944 107,000 Jews were deported …
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I am Kira Zylberszac or perhaps I should say I was Kira Zylberszac. My age is 7 years old I died on August 19 1942 together with my younger brother Serge, We did not die because we were sick or someway a threat to the world. We died because of an…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The world’s leading transport and logistics company Kühne + Nagel is portrayed in a new study as the removal firm of choice for the Nazis during the Holocaust. Under the code name “Furniture Action” or also “M-Action” (abbreviation for “Möbel-Aktion”), the “Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg” looted approximately 70,000 homes since…
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