World War 2
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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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Anyone who knows me knows that I take my food seriously. Never mind the danger to my family or me, the deprivation of my daily requirements of food would probably be enough reason for me to go to war. Luckily enough I never had to go a day without food(although it would have done me…
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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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First do no harm is a misquoted line from the Hippocratic oath, but it has been adopted as part of it.The actual translation is “I will utterly reject harm and mischief” however the message is the same. A great number of Physicians of the Nazi regime did not adhere to the oath. They took the…
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The worst crimes by the Nazi regime were those conducted in the name of science, the human experiments, there were many experiments below are only a few of them. Experiments on twins Experiments on twin children in concentration camps were created to show the similarities and differences in the genetics of twins, as well as to see…
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The problem nowadays is there are no real heroes anymore,well at least no heroes that are honored in the media. The focus seems to be more on so called reality stars and overpaid athletes, and they are often being portrayed as being heroes for having survived the latest plastic surgery or knee injury. No wonder…
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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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