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The Dutch Football club AJAX FC is often seen as a Jewish football club, although it doesn’t actually have any Jewish roots. However, it has had a Jewish connection since the 1930s when the home stadium was located next to a Jewish neighbourhood of Amsterdam-Oost and opponents saw many supporters walking through the Nieuwmarkt/Waterloopleinbuurt (de…
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The lesson we haven’t learned from the Holocaust is that we are still putting people in groups. One of the reasons why the Nazis were so efficient in killing millions was they assigned people into groups. It made it easier for the “normal” citizens to accept the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust.…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Not everyone who served in the German army were evil,nor were all of them Nazi’s. Many were drafted into the army because they had no other choice, often it was even a matter of life and death. This blog is about Heinz Drossel, one of the German soldiers who…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: War time is a great opportunity for evil men to act upon their instincts and get away with it. Fortunately they don’t always succeed. When I was doing research on Paul Ogozow, the S-Bahn murderer, I discovered there was a whole list of serial killers that operated during WWII…
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The most disturbing aspect of the Holocaust is the numbers of people being killed. No one of us can even begin to imagine the horror. Many knew their fate before they got killed. They were put on transports on journeys that sometimes would take days. Journeys under unfathomable inhumane conditions, many would already die during…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On this day in 1876, Native American forces led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River.? ? Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, leaders of the Sioux tribe on…
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How do you profile the mind of one of the most evil men who ever roamed the Earth? The Office of Strategic Services (now CIA) tasked psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer and psychologist Henry Murray to come up with an extensive analysis of Hitler’s mind in 1943. The reports used many sources to profile Hitler, including…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Regardless how talented you were, or how much value you could add to the German culture, if you didn’t comply to the Nazi ideology or dared to criticize it, you stood a good chance of getting executed. Karlrobert Kreiten born 26 June 1916, in Bonn, Germany) was a Dutch-German pianist, …
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: May 10 1940 must have been one of the busiest and chaotic days in WWII.I won’t go to deep into the details because most of the events are well documented, however not everyone might know that these events happened on the same day. The invasion of the Benelux(Belgium,Netherlands, Luxembourg)…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I have always been a great fan of the cop show Columbo with Peter Falk in the title role. However I did not know that Peter Falk and I had a few things in common. Born in New York City, Falk was the son of Michael Peter Falk ,…
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