History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It can be argued that the deadliest weapon during WWII was propaganda,below are some examples of WWII propaganda from the allied forces and the axis powers. ? “Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people… Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: November 20 marked the 77th anniversary of the trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg. Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I have to be honest, the title is a small bit deceiving. This blog not about his nephew, the famous Rockstar who celebrates his 58th birthday today, but it is about Leonard M. Kravitz (technically Lenny is short for Leonard). Leonard Martin Kravitz was an American soldier in the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On May 10.1945, probably knowing that he was close to be captured, by swallowing a capsule of potassium cyanide at the Mürwik naval base in Flensburg-Mürwik,Richard Glücks ended his own life. Although the lack of official records or photos gave rise to speculation about his ultimate fate. There are…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I just don’t know how the war would have gone if the Germans had succeeded with these bombs. Giving a new meaning to the dessert name “death by chocolate”, The German bomb makers created explosive devices with a coating of thin layer of rich dark chocolate, then packaged it…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The girl in the play pen is Renee Sara Gottschalk, born in the Central Refugee Camp Westerbork on 21 June 1941. The two girls in the dark dresses are the daughters of chief physician F. Spanier. The lady on the right is Rosa Strauss; Renee Sara’s mother. Her father…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: A Stolpersteinplural Stolpersteine; literally means “stumbling stone”, metaphorically a “stumbling stone” is a sett-size, ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution.. Created by the artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, Stolpersteine are brass-topped cobblestones…