History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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I absolutely love the BBC/Amazon Prime TV Drama “Ripper Street” and I think the last season was the best season so far. I only found out recently that the main character in the show was based on the actual inspector in the Jack the Ripper case, Edmund Reid. Detective Inspector Edmund John James Reid (21
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It would be easy for me to say that Dutch Jews, and those who fled Germany and Austria, were badly treated by the Germans in the Netherlands during World War II. To a great extent that would be true, but the Germans were helped by a great number of Dutch. One thing I have often
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Heinrich Himmler, one of the most infamous figures of the Nazi regime, was born on October 7, 1900, in Munich, Germany. As a leading member of the Nazi Party and head of the SS (Schutzstaffel), Himmler played a pivotal role in orchestrating the Holocaust and implementing policies that led to the genocide of six million
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I know this is an awkward subject and some people may have difficulties even reading past the first sentence. However just because it is awkward and controversial doesn’t mean it is not important. Sex is one of the most primal human instincts and urges it is how we manage to reproduce, but is more then
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The Congo Free State was a corporate state in Central Africa privately owned by King Leopold II of Belgium founded and recognized by the Berlin Conference of 1885. In the 23 years (1885-1908) Leopold II ruled the Congo he massacred 10 million Africans by cutting off their hands and genitals, flogging them to death, starving
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Will this be the last Sun light I see? I did see the sunbeams through the cracks on the train. They shone on the people in the wagon, Some did not move, They were asleep my mother said, but I don’t believe her Will this be the last fresh air I breathe? On the
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No longer will I walk my dog or ride my bike No longer will I read a book or write a card No longer will I do what everyone else my age does. No longer will I be loved or no longer will I love. Not because I am a bad person or because I
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At first glance when you look at the picture it doesn’t appear to be extraordinary. There is an officer clearly giving a speech. There are a few Christmas trees at the back so it appears to be some sort of Christmas do. The officer is Albert Konrad Gemmeker he was a German SS-Obersturmführer and camp
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“Silent Night” (German: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. The song was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, a village in the Austrian
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I have posted similar blogs like this before and I won’t apologize for that because it is important to understand how warped the Nazi ideology was. They killed babies and children not by accident but deliberately, Children who often could not even walk yet were seen as enemies of the state. The above picture is
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