Holocaust

  • In case you are wondering if the headline of this article is a typo, it is not, Field Marshall Milch was Jewish. Milch was born in Wilhelmshaven, the son of Anton Milch, a Jewish pharmacist who served in the Imperial German Navy, and Clara Milch, née Vetter. Due to his Jewish ancestry, according to the Nazi…

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  • Today marks the 74th anniversary of the Nürnberg Trials sentencing. Three of the defendants were acquitted: Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen, and Hans Fritzsche. Four were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years: Karl Dönitz, Baldur von Schirach, Albert Speer, and Konstantin von Neurath. Three were sentenced to life imprisonment: Rudolf…

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  • Hate is mankind’s worst disease and it seems to be incurable. I am only limiting this to the 1933-1945 era but I could easily have dozens of pages of pictures of all era’s  going up to today. Nazis singing to encourage a boycott of Jewish shops , 1933 A German woman facing public humiliation because…

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  • August Frank memorandum

    Today marks the 79 th anniversary of the August Frank memorandum. The August Frank memorandum of 26 September 1942 was a directive from SS Lieutenant General August Frank of the SS concentration camp administration department (SS-WVHA). The memorandum provides a measure of the detailed planning that Frank and other Nazis put into the carrying out…

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  • Hans Eppinger Jr. (January 5, 1879 – September 25, 1946) was an Austrian physician who performed experiments upon concentration camp prisoners. Below is a line from the Hippocratic oath , an oath taken by physicians. “I will, according to my ability and judgment, prescribe a regimen for the health of the sick; but I will…

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  • Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party) in Germany, gay men and, to a lesser extent, lesbians, were two of the numerous groups targeted by the Nazis and were ultimately among Holocaust victims. Beginning in 1933, gay organizations were banned, scholarly books about homosexuality, and sexuality…

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  • Horrors of WW2-Part 2

    ++++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++ Another remind how cruel humanity can be. Dead inmates discovered in the concentration camp at Buchenwald after its liberation on April 11 by the U.S. 6th Armored Division. An estimated 56,000 victims had been murdered at Buchenwald and its subcamps. At a Belgian crossroads in the early hours of the battle of…

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  • The most vulnerable in society are children and even more vulnerable the children with a disability. They deserve love and care more then anyone else. However the Nazi regime had a different philosophy. To them these poor souls were the impure and undesirable and there was no space for them in the Third Reich. Am…

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  • There were several events that happened on September 18 during World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, six extraordinary events occurred on the same date, 18 September. I am not sure if it is a coincidence or intentional. Or maybe I just happened to spot it; either way, it is a bit eerie, and most…

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  • Amon Göth

    Anyone who has seen Schindler’s List will remember Ralph Fiennes’s portrayal of this man. I say man reluctantly because even though he looked, walked and talked like a man, he was really an animal. Amon Leopold Göth was born on 11 December 1908 in Vienna. He was married twice, divorced in 1934 and again in…

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