Holocaust
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Receiving a postcard is always a nice event. Be it for your birthday, a card from someone on their holidays, a season‘s greeting, or just someone keeping in touch. It is like getting a present which has emotional rather than monetary value. And often you want to repay this act of kindness, by also sending…
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On December 12th 1941, one day after Hitler had declared war to the USA, Hitler called a meeting in the Reich Chancellery. Nearly all important party leaders were present to hear Hitler declare the annihilation of the Jewish race, This meeting was held just over a month before the Wannsee conference.However the December 12 meeting…
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Dear Louis, I have to believe you are an Angel Because if I don’t I get engulfed with hate for those who killed you. But your beautiful face only radiates love. You are an Angel, you already look up to your new home in Heaven. You were 4 when you were murdered by those who…
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The NSNAP could be considered a NSDAP wannabe. However it would be foolish to trivialize their existence. The Nationaal-Socialistische Nederlandsche Arbeiderspartij (National Socialist Dutch Workers Party were founded in 1931 by Ernst Herman van Rappard(seen below in an SS uniform) He was born in the Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Dutch East Indies.His educative years he spent…
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In 1798 the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was published by he English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The most famous line of the poem is “Water, water, every where,Nor any drop to drink.” There are several theories in relation to the inspiration of the poem but the above mentioned line refers to the…
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I was struggling to give this blog a title. I was thinking of naming it—Brothels in the Concentration Camp. However, I think that would not do justice to the horror and impossible choices these women had to make. In general, women who worked in brothels had a bit of autonomy over their lives. Some women enjoyed…
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A single chess piece with little of no value, yet it is invaluable. A bit of carved wood part of the game of 32 pieces, 16 white ,16 black. A game played by millions and played by people of all religions and none. A game which equally unites and divides people. This pawn piece says…
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Fritz Löhner-Beda was an Austrian born Jewish librettist, lyricist and writer. Born Wildenschwert, Bohemia but he grew up in one of Europe’s most cultural cities,Vienna. Alas Vienna’s culture was to become tainted to a degree. In the 1920s, Löhner-Beda became one of the most popular and sought-after librettists and lyricists in Vienna. This popularity though…
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Even nowadays there are those who think that the army of the third reich were formidable, and even call them heroes. This is how ‘formidable’ these Third rich “heroes” really were. Often their enemies were old defenseless,unarmed men like the 2 Jewish men in the picture above being humiliated by 2 Wehrmacht soldiers, showing off…
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On October ,28 1939, students from the Charles University in Prague held a demonstration to remember the 21st anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. The demonstration was violently suppressed by the occupying Nazi regime more then a dozen students were seriously injured, one of the students Jan Opletal later died of his…
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