World War 2

  • The soft side of WWII

    World War II was the darkest era in World history. The world had never seen so much death and destruction. But even in those dark days there were some rays of light, Following are some examples. 9th Armored Division technician Alvin Harley with a little French girl on Valentine’s Day, 14 Feb 1945 An old…

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  • I heard a Holocaust survivor say “The Germans(citizens) weren’t vicious, they were just indifferent” No one is born indifferent , you are conditioned that way and shortly after WWI, conditions were created where someone could step in and condition the Germans to be indifferent. It was reporter Edgar A. Mowrer who stated “Hitler is not an intellectual…

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  • Who doesn’t remember the iconic car from Back to the Future? Or should I perhaps say the ironic car from Back to the Future,because although it couldn’t have  hoped for a better marketing tool then the movie franchise, the DeLorean DMC-12 completely failed. Despite it’s ultra-cool appearance  not many people actually bought a DeLorean car. They were…

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  • Sinfra was a cargo ship built in 1929 as Fernglen by Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Oslo, Norway, for a Norwegian shipping company. The ship was sold to Swedish owners in 1934 and to a French company in 1939, on the last occasion having her name changed to Sinfra. Sinfra was confiscated by German authorities in 1942, and used by them in the Mediterranean. On 19 October 1943, Sinfra was bombed…

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  • Basically I could make this blog the shortest ever. None of the Nazis were Aryans. I could leave it with that because it’d be true. Below is the definition of Aryan. ‘Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient…

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  • I know this blog will be controversial however  I  do believe sometimes to get a message across is by showing how absurd things are. The fact is Adolf Hitler liked to dress up, I am not saying he was a drag queen but I think he may have had tendencies towards it,and behind closed doors…

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  • Two last letters

      These 2 letter are truly heartbreaking. The 1st one because it was written by a young boy showing appreciation for a gift, not knowing what fate waited for him after his mother had sent his letter. This one actually tore my heart to pieces. The 2nd one from a young man who knew exactly…

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  • Raid of the Ghetto of Rome

    There are two sad elements to this story. A-As so oft before during WWII victims had been given a sense of hope, often false hope given by the Nazi’s to even inflict psychological terror upon the physical crimes. However in this case the hope was given by the allies. B. So very little is known…

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  • The letter of Horror.

    This blog is not meant to judge, it is however meant for one thing. Just one question “What would you do?” It is a question of dying or living. The primal human instinct’Survival’ And there is no need to reply to this blog, just reply in your own mind with your own conscience. A buried…

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  • The Goettge patrol.

    In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deception in which one side promises to act in good faith (such as by raising a flag of truce) with the intention of breaking that promise once the unsuspecting enemy is exposed (such as by coming out of cover to attack the enemy coming to take the “surrendering” prisoners into custody). Perfidy constitutes a…

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