History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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••••••••••••••••••••WARNING: CONTAINS SOME GRAPHIC IMAGES•••••••••••••••••••• It always amazes me that there are still people who don’t believe that the Holocaust ever happened. The Nazis were meticulous in keeping records and kept a lot of data from the camps. Even Nazis like Oskar Gröning couldn’t believe Holocaust deniers. Starting the post with one of the opening…
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Petrus Antonius Aalders was just a young man who wanted to determine his future. Petrus was born on April 2, 1924, in Gennep, Limburg, the Netherlands and by trade, was a professional hairdresser. After being called up for the Arbeitseinsatz, forced labour in Germany, he went into hiding in Eindhoven. Now and then, he returned…
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As we bid farewell to 2023, and 2024 is upon us it may be a good time to reflect on the last 12 months, but at some of the stories which may have been forgotten. January 1 Avenger’s actor Jeremy Renner is accidentally run over by a snowplow, breaking more than 30 bones in his…
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Although I have literally written hundreds of posts on World War II and the Holocaust, I hadn’t heard about the great bank robbery. The bank robbery at Almelo 1944, is a bank robbery was committed by the Dutch resistance on November 15, in which 46.1 million guilders (value in 2023: €354 million) was taken. It…
History of Sorts 