History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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The fact that so many were murdered during the Holocaust is hard to fathom, and it is often compounded by personal stories. None so sad as that of Heinz Felix Geiringer. It is not clear if he died just before the end of the war in Europe or shortly after the end. Several databases list…
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The title, Last Letters—The Final Thoughts, doesn’t reflect entirely their reality. The letters that were sent or received were often checked and edited by the Nazis, especially the letters in the camps. The Red Cross distributed the posts. The words in the letters may not have always been the final thoughts, but they may have been…
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Jenny-Wanda Barkmann was known as “The Beautiful Spectre” and “Mad Jenny,” but neither nickname was accurate. Although she may have been beautiful or pleasing to the eyes (although not in my opinion), but this was just a thin veneer to cover her evilness, and she wasn’t mad—because I believe—she knew exactly what she was doing.…
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Philip Mechanicus was born, three days before Adolph Hitler, in Amsterdam on 17 April 1889 to a Jewish family. After he left school, he started to work for the social-democratic daily newspaper Het Volk in the shipping and records department. He worked his way up to become a journalist. After finishing his military service, he worked in…
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There is no bond stronger than that between a mother and child. The photograph above appears to be of a mother showing off her beautiful newborn cosily wrapped in a blanket and the smiling, doting mother. However, there is more to this photo. It really is a double miracle—giving birth is a miracle itself is…
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+++++++++++++++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES+++++++++++++++++++ The Kaufering IV—Hurlach Subcamp was one of 169 subcamps belonging to the Dachau Concentration Camp system. It had several names—KZ Schwabmünchen/Kaufering IV or KZ Hurlach. Whatever we call it, it did not matter as it was a place of evil. The camp was liberated at the end of April 1945 by a…
History of Sorts 