History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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I wasn’t sure what to call this post. I had considered the title “Mission Impossible” but I did go with “Escape to Victory.” On 8 December 1944, the KP (Knok Ploeg-boxing crew) resistance group in Friesland managed to liberate 51 members of the resistance from the Blokhuispoort, the detention centre in Leeuwarden, without any escalation
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It is just unfathomable how many of the most evil and vile war criminals escaped justice. It is something the German government and other European and American governments should be deeply,deeply ashamed off because they escaped under their watch. Gustav Franz Wagner (18 July 1911 – 3 October 1980) was…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Today marks the 76th anniversary of the second Great Fire of London. On 29 December 1940 around 100,000 bombs fell in just a few hours, causing a firestorm across most of the City’s square mile up to Islington. 14 fire fighters were to lose their lives that night, with…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: You didn’t have to do it. You didn’t have to kill me. You didn’t have to do it, you wanted to. You didn’t have to do it, but you hated me and didn’t think twice. You hated me, why? You hated me, because someone told you to hate me.…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: December 5 is the day in the Netherlands when Sinterklaas is celebrated. It is when he kids get their presents or if they were bad a bit of coal. Sinterklaas is based on Saint Nicholas, legend has it that good old Saint Nick died on December 6. However, I…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: December 15th marks the 61st anniversary of Adolf Eichmann’s death sentence. I am not going too much in the history of Eichmann, there is not that much I can add to the narrative. On December 11–12, 1961, Eichmann was convicted of crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: We live in an era where social media ‘influencers’ or celebrities, who make a token gesture for the latest political hype , are seen as heroes. I find it very hard to comprehend this misguided notion. None of these people have ever done a heroic deed. I cam across…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The author Silvia Foti argues that spending time in a Nazi concentration camp does not exonerate her grandfather from his role in the Holocaust in Lithuania. As I was growing up in Chicago during the Cold War, I’d heard about how my grandfather Jonas Noreika was an honorary prisoner…
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