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The Ku Klux Klan has survived for more than 150 years. Its ideology of hatred and white supremacy continued to attract new members through the Holocaust, the civil rights movement, and the election of America’s first black president. It seems unbelievable that hatred could live on for that long, that anyone in the modern world…
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Of all the enemies Allied soldiers confronted during World War II, malaria proved to be among the most stubborn. The mosquito-borne disease was a constant scourge for soldiers stationed in the Pacific and Mediterranean theaters. General MacArthur’s retreat to the malarial Philippine peninsula of Bataan in early 1942 led directly to his sickly army’s surrender to the Japanese a…
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I know the W.H.O keeps changing their minds on what is and isn’t healthy, but throughout the years there have been ad campaigns claiming that things were healthy which we now can safely assume that they weren’t The above poster an ad for an asbestos pad for the dining table. We know now that asbestos…
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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. Forgotten History- The T-4 Holocaust victims:the 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…
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Following the German invasion of Luxembourg on May 10, 1940, Luxembourg was briefly placed under military occupation. On August 2, 1940, the military government was dissolved and replaced by a civilian government under the leadership of the German civilian administrator of the adjoining German district. The Luxembourg population was declared to be German and was…
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Since January 17, 1920, the 18th Amendment had made it illegal (medicinal and religious exemptions aside) to drink or sell any beverages containing at least 0.5 percent alcohol by volume anywhere in the United States. The law led to lawlessness. A new wave of criminals met the new need for illicit alcohol and plagued the…
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To most of you the names of these 2 towns will mean virtually nothing but it is where my roots are. I was born and raised in Geleen. Sittard-Geleen is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It was formed in 2001 from the former municipalities Sittard, Geleen and Born. The Netherlands was a neutral country, during WWI this neutrality had not been breached,…
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On August 28 1941, more than 23,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered by the Nazi’s in occupied Ukraine. The Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre was a World War II mass shooting of Jews carried out in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, by mobile killing squads of Nazi German Order Police Battalion 320 along with Jeckeln’s Einsatzgruppen, the Hungarian soldiers, and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police. The killings were conducted on August…
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Execution by elephant was a common method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, where Asian elephants were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives in public executions. The animals were trained and versatile, able to kill victims immediately or to torture them slowly over a prolonged period. Most commonly employed by royalty, the elephants were used to signify both the ruler’s absolute…
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