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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The title of the blog is ‘The Steinbach Family’ but is really a blog about the Romani people. The reason why I picked the Steinba,ch family name is twofold. Firstly the picture at the start of the blog is of Settela Steinbach. It is one of the most iconic…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was a concert held on Easter Monday, 20 April 1992 at Wembley Stadium in London, England for an audience of 72,000. The concert was produced for television by Ray Burdis and broadcast live on television and radio to 76 countries around the…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Mail was allowed to be sent from the concentration camps under strict censorship. It had to be written in the German language and the number of lines was limited. Only simple information about health and daily life was allowed. The Blockführer had to read and sign the mail and…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Bloody Sunday was a series of killings of members of the German minority that took place at the beginning of World War II. On September 3, 1939, two days after the beginning of the German invasion of Poland, highly controversial killings occurred in and around Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg), a…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Here they stand, brothers them allAll the sons, divided they’d fallHere await the birth of the sonThe seventh, the heavenly, the chosen oneOhhhh!Here the birth from an unbroken lineBorn the healer, the seventh, his timeUnknowingly blessed and as his life unfoldsSlowly unveiling the power he holdsOhhhh!Seventh son of a…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Every self respecting Heavy Metal fan will know “Gonna get Close to you” by Queensryche. But how many know it was actually a cover version? The original was released in 1984 by Lisa Dalbello. I like to look at shadows sweating on the wallI get excited when I hear…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: When you are old enoughTo read this wordsTheir meaning will unfoldThese words are all that’s leftAnd though we’ve never meet,My only son,I hope you knowThat I would have been thereTo watch you growBut my call was heard and I did goNow your missionLies ahead of youAs it did mine…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Jehovah Witnesses are often forgotten as Holocaust victims. An estimated 1,000 German Jehovah’s Witnesses died or were murdered in concentration camps and prisons during the Nazi era, as did 400 Witnesses from other countries, including about 90 Austrians and 130 Dutch Jehovah Witnesses. On May 29, 1940, the…
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