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Originally posted on History of Sorts: What a lot of people don’t realize is that the Holocaust wasn’t a sudden event but a gradual one.Most of the victims looked just like any one else in society therefor in order for the Nazis to identify Jews,Jehovah Witnesses,Homosexuals and other victims. they needed the help of the…
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Commonplace Fun Facts Theodore Roosevelt loved anything that challenged the body or the mind. He had a fondness for brain teasers. This one was his favorite: I talk, but I do not speak my mind. I hear words, but I do not listen to thoughts. When I wake, all see me. When I sleep, all…
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When it comes to music, it is very rare that I have to admit “I stand corrected”, especially when it comes to a piece of music I know inside out. ‘Jeff Wayne’s musical version of the War of the Worlds’ is by far my most favourite album in my collection, I actually have a variety…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: There have been far greater sea disasters then the Titanic but for more then 100 years it still captures the imagination of people like no other nautical disaster. Below are just some pictures of that famous unsinkable ship. Unfinished, at Belfast, on May 31, 1911. Under construction. The Titanic,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: These were once the toys, clothing and medicine of Hugo Steenmeijer, the child of a ddDutch father and an Indonesian mother. When Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies in 1942, his father was sent to work as a forced labourer on the Burma Railway. The Japanese imprisoned Europeans in…
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There is a saying that goes, “If you want to get to know somebody, walk a mile in their shoes.” These shoes were found in Auschwitz and are on display in the Jewish Museum in London. I don’t know if the actual shoes are on display. or if it is just a photograph. It doesn’t…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: You’re an immensely popular Rock-Blues band and you have been invited to one of the Warsaw pact countries,Czechoslovakia to be precise. They just got a new leader a man with a vision,a prelude to glasnost as such. Alexander Dubček opened it up his country for new cultural experiences, so when…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Battle for Castle Itter is the only battle during WWII where the allies fought alongside the Wehrmacht.In early May 1945, American and German soldiers fought together against the Nazi SS to free prominent French prisoners of war.. The Battle for Castle Itter in the Austrian North Tyrol village…
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