Holocaust
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Esperanto was created in the late 1870s and early 1880s by L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist from Białystok, then part of the Russian Empire, but now part of Poland. According to Zamenhof, he created the language to reduce the “time and labour we spend in learning foreign tongues” and to foster harmony between people from different countries: “Were there but…
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It would be easy to say that all Germans were bad during WWII and that none of the Catholics and Protestant Christians lifted a finger to fight the Nazi regime. Although I hear this increasingly, it is a wrong assumption to make. In fact there were many who risked their lives,knowing quite well the chances…
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What a tremendous feeling it must have been to accuse and identify those who committed awful crimes, without the fear of retaliation. Probably it wasn’t even out of revenge but with a feeling of getting justice done. On the other side how panicking it must have been for those criminals when the finger was pointed…
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There have been many attempts to assassinate Hitler, bizarrely enough they all failed.The attempt by Maurice Bavaud is one of the lesser known ones, Partially because it was overshadowed by the events unfolding due to the ‘Kristallnacht-Night of Broken glass’ Student Maurice Bavaud, 25, who was from the western Swiss town of Neuchatel, was executed in…
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Georg Elser was a struggling German carpenter and communist who was vehemently opposed to Nazism. He anticipated that Hitler’s regime would lead his country on the path toward war and financial ruin, and in late-1938, he resolved to do something about it. Knowing that Hitler would speak at Munich’s Bürgerbräukeller brewery the following year on…
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It wasn’t only men who committed heinous crimes in the concentration camps . There were many women who participated in torture and murder and often they enjoyed it. Some of the women were more evil then their male counterparts. Below are some of the lesser known female guards and supervisors Carmen Mory The Black…
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It’s amazing how ignorant someone sometimes can be. Although I wasn’t a great of fan of the shows I did watch Hogan’s Heroes and the Bold and the Beautiful on a regular basis,especially the latter one in the period of 1990-1992. The reason why I mention these 2 shows because it starred Robert Clary. In…
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I am going to keep this one simple. This is a blog about babies killed while they were still in diapers. What danger did they pose? These are picture of babies killed by the Nazi regime. I don’t have a name for the baby above, only the age. 1. Frederika Madeleine van Coeverdan murdered in…
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I often add words in the titles of my blog to describe parts of the contents of the blog. In this case I don’t have to do that because everyone knows the story of Anne Frank and to a lesser extend that of her older sister Margot. On the 3rd of September 1944 they were…
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Switzerland still has a lot of questions to answer when it comes to their involvement in WWII. Officially they were neutral but there neutrality was just like their cheeses, full of holes in them. Half a century after the Second World War had ended, Switzerland decided to forgive the citizens punished for helping the…
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