World War 2
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I have been doing blogs on the holocaust now for about 18 months. I did consider giving it a break for a while, not because I didn’t find the stories important but because at times my emotions were getting the better of me, and they were having an impact. However I then realised I…
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I am not a great fan of comics although I did read them when I was younger, but they don’t really interest me that much anymore. However I can see the value of them and why they were popular even during war. Or maybe I should say especially during war, Because it was the perfect…
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From 1940 to 1945 the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to fall under German Occupation. During that period, local courts continued to function and to apply Island law. Lawyers, judges and government officials in Jersey and Guernsey continued to swear oaths of allegiance to the British Crown. But German anti-Semitic laws and…
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I want to start by saying that the photographs in this blog do not actually portray the victims. But that is also the reason why this crime has been forgotten because this crime was shrouded in secrecy by the perpetrators and victims. Although there are no exact numbers it is estimated that 15% of all…
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I find it very hard to fathom any of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, but the one thing that gets to me most is the murder of children. They did not pose any threat or any kind of danger, neither did their parents, but the children had no option to defend themselves. They…
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One of the reasons why the Nazi’s became so powerful as they were, was because a lot of people and companies in Germany and indeed across the world decided to look away or ignore the atrocities because it suited their own agenda and lined their own pockets. The Associated Press At the height of World…
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On October 7, 1940, Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum of the Office of Naval Intelligence submitted a memo to Navy Captains Walter Anderson and Dudley Knox (whose endorsement is included in the following scans). Captains Anderson and Knox were two of President Roosevelt’s most trusted military advisors. McCollum wrote that it would be in the interest…
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Friedrich (Fritz) Schubert (21 February 1897, Dortmund – 22 October 1947, Heptapyrgion) was a Greek-speaking German NCO Sonderführer of the Wehrmacht. As head of the Jagdkommando Schubert, a paramilitary force terrorizing the civilian population during the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War II, he committed numerous atrocities in Crete and Macedonia. Tried by a special court for war crimes in Athens, he was found guilty over the killing of over 250 civilians, sentenced…
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Although I could not be considered to be an athlete,by any stretch of the imagination, I do enjoy walking and going for swims. Ever since I was a kid I was always very interested in the Olympic games. My home nation ,the Netherlands always tends to do well and it does give a sense of…
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Tony Curtis is a legend in his own right. He has starred in dozens of classic films including Some Like It Hot, The Defiant Ones ,Spartacus and Operation Petticoat. He enlisted in the United States Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor and war was declared. He joined the Pacific submarine force. Curtis served aboard a submarine tender, the USS Proteus, until the end of…
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