Holocaust
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In every war innocent children are killed this is called “Collateral damage” , I hate this description because it is young human lives that are destroyed and not just material things. The unfortunate fact though is that this is still a reality in many countries nowadays. Bad as this is during ,WWII children were being…
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Man’s primal instinct is to survive at any cost and in order to do so some have done things which could be considered as selling your soul to the devil. Does this mean we can judge them? In some cases we can but in other cases we have to understand the situation they were in.…
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Not many people know that the poisonous gas Zyklon B was first used on Russian Prisoners of War, long before the Nazi’s had decided on the ‘final solution’ at the Wannsee conference. Today marks the 76th anniversary of the first mass killing by Zyklon B. SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch (10 July 1903 – reported missing 2…
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++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++ I generally don’t like showing horrific images, but every now and then we need to reminded how evil man can be and how low mankind can sink. This blog will containg horrific images but they are not even the worst.As they say a picture paints a 1000 words, these pictures paint a…
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland by German and Slovak forces, triggering the start of WWII. Below are some pictures and media releases of that day. The Polish Troops The Nazi’s and Slovaks The Victims The Media
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I have been following a documentary series on the History Channel called “Hunting Hitler” where they speculate that Hitler may have escaped rather then commit suicide, and that he ended up in Argentina, Although the evidence is compelling there is one big part missing and that is the Eye witness accounts of the staff who…
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The most famous diary of course was Anne Frank’s diary, but there were more children and adults who kept diaries during that awful time. Below are diary entries from both children and adults. In most of the cases the authors are unknown. Starting off with a more positive entry. Illustrated page of a child’s diary…
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The middle ages are often referred to as the dark ages but I really think the Dark Ages were from 1933 to 1945. However with every darkness there is also light. This blog is dealing with those few bits of light that shone during those dark ages. The picture above is a picture of an American Jews…
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The more I do these articles the more I discover how deep the hatred was against Jews. It wasn’t only the Germans but also troops from other axis powers who were happy and willing enough to fulfill the Nazi’s final solution. The Arajs Kommando (also: Sonderkommando Arajs), led by SS-Sturmbannführer Viktors Arājs, was a unit…
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The article is about 2 men with no connection whatsoever, well nearly. The only connection is that they both saved Jews during WWII in different ways but both defied the Nazi regime at risk of losing their own lives. Gino Bartali Gino Bartali (18 July 1914 – 5 May 2000), nicknamed Gino the Pious and ,…
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