History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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The human mind is the most powerful weapon and a collective consciousness can be a very dangerous thing but it fortunately mostly it is harmless and often bizarre. There are so many examples where something is misquoted and it is picked up en mass. Star Wars:the Empire Strikes Back The most famous line from…
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Not only were the Nazis a murderous bunch, they also stole and destroyed art and denied the German people the right to read some of the most classic books. JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit was one of those books. However, the book could have been published if Tolkien had neglected his principles. However, such was the character…
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(Posting for a Friend) What happens when brilliance, integrity, and decades of engineering excellence collide with a system designed to silence women? Confessions of a Female Engineer is a raw, unflinching memoir of one woman’s 30-year battle against misogyny, systemic bias, and psychological warfare in the male-dominated world of engineering. From subsistence farming in 1970s…
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This blog is not to judge the women who had sex with the Nazis during World War 2. It is just to highlight the fact that it did happen, not only in brothels, but that is where I will focus on in this blog. I could have called the blog “Sleeping with the enemy” but…
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++++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++++ The concept of gender balance is widely discussed today, but history shows that achieving it doesn’t always lead to positive outcomes. Even the Nazi regime, infamous for its atrocities, had its own form of gender balance. But does that make it commendable? When it comes to the capacity for evil, men and…
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The history of the Trawniki Men stands as a chilling testament to the banality of evil and the role that ordinary individuals can play in perpetrating atrocities on a massive scale. While their actions may have faded into obscurity for many, it is essential to remember their complicity in the Holocaust and to honor the…
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Iran is often referred to as an axis of evil and this blog is not meant to agree or disagree with that, it is meant to show that it hasn’t always been that way. In a similar fashion it is often believed that the Soviet army were the good guys during WWII, that wasn’t always…
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I have to apologize upfront because after reading this blog you will never listen to the songs again in the same way. It is not one of my usual blogs, but I was listening to the radio this morning and 2 songs were played in succession which basically had very disturbing lyrics. Most people who…
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Jehovah Witnesses were one of the groups of people hated by the Nazis and were killed by the hundreds, the numbers are unclear but are estimated to be between 1,000 and 2,500. Nazi authorities denounced Jehovah’s Witnesses for their ties to the United States and derided the apparent revolutionary millennialism of their preaching that a…
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