History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: World War I was the first major conflict involving the large-scale use of aircraft. Tethered observation balloons had already been employed in several wars, and would be used extensively for artillery spotting. Germany employed Zeppelins for reconnaissance over the North Sea and Baltic and also for strategic bombing raids over Britain and the Eastern Front. Aeroplanes were just coming into military use at the outset of the…
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Hedwig Klement just a random name on random suitcase. But this random suitcase is not just any suitcase. It tells the story of a woman forcefully uprooted from her home in Prague. All she could take with her was this suitcase. That suitcase is all that remains of her because she was murdered in Auschwitz.…
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The Shamefvll ende of Bishop John Atherton. or in modern day English, the shameful end of Bishop John Atherton is probably a good example of”Be careful what you wish for because you may just get it” John Atherton was the Anglican Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in the Church of Ireland. But prior to that…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Esperanto was created in the late 1870s and early 1880s by L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist from Białystok, then part of the Russian Empire, but now part of Poland. According to Zamenhof, he created the language to reduce the “time and labour we spend in learning foreign tongues” and to foster harmony between people…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: You just never know what goes around in someone’s mind or behind closed doors. You may look at someone in admiration because he appears to be such a good and wholesome human being, but deep inside lurks a monster. John List was an outwardly normal and successful father. A…
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The picture above is a baby picture of Milda Sykora. A brilliant scientist and researcher. At a young age she had set herself the task to find out what triggered the unset of Rheumatoid Arthritis. She had seen several people in her family suffer what the disease for which there is no cure. Tirelessly she…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The title mentions “Art Exhibition” but this is really for lack of a better description. In reality it was Propaganda disguised as an art exhibition. The exhibition opened today 79 years ago. The Eternal Jew (Der ewige Jude) was the title of an exhibition of degenerate art (entartete Kunst)…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I always like ‘What if?’ scenarios. What if Joe Kennedy Jr would not have embarked on his last mission, would we be remembering the assassination of JFK? Or would Joe Kennedy have been President of the USA? The story of the Kennedy family is not only tragic it is…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Aside from the human costs of he persecution of the Jews by the Nazis, it also had a devastating impact on culture. So many very talented painters,writers,musicians and other artists were killed because they were Jewish. Artists whose art could still have been enjoyed today,but they never got a…
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