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Originally posted on History of Sorts: During World War II, Allied soldiers in German prison camps used Monopoly games for more than just amusement. Thanks to an ingenious scheme by a branch of the British Ministry of Defense known as MI9, these soldiers were actually able to use Monopoly games to escape to freedom. Christopher William…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: 8301, not just a number or mathematical equation. 8301 sacrifices made for the freedom of others. 8301 young lives ended by violence 8301 heroes 8301 reasons why we should never forget what hate,ignorance and intolerance can do. 8301. although a large number it is only a small percentage of…
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There was a bit of a scandal this week in Dublin. On of the Dublin based soccer teams,Ballybrack, pretended that one of their star players was killed in a car crash. The team wanted to postpone an up coming match and came up with the death as an excuse. The ting is though there was…
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Although Ireland was neutral during WWII it didn’t stay completely out of the war.There were even some famous Irish war heroes like the Beamish brothers from Cork who became RAF flying aces. On the other hand there were less conspicuous heroes, unlikely heroes even like Limerick man Richard Hayes. He was born in Abbeyfeale, Co.…
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Even nowadays there are those who think that the army of the third reich were formidable, and even call them heroes. This is how ‘formidable’ these Third rich “heroes” really were. Often their enemies were old defenseless,unarmed men like the 2 Jewish men in the picture above being humiliated by 2 Wehrmacht soldiers, showing off…
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Mel Brooks once said about Hitler “I was never crazy about Hitler. If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator, you never win. That’s what they do so well: they seduce people. But if you ridicule them, bring them down with laughter, they can’t win. You show how crazy they are.”…
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On October ,28 1939, students from the Charles University in Prague held a demonstration to remember the 21st anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. The demonstration was violently suppressed by the occupying Nazi regime more then a dozen students were seriously injured, one of the students Jan Opletal later died of his…
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Telegram from Sir G Ogilvie Forbes regarding the damage dealt to Jewish properties during ‘Kristallnacht’ Telegram (en clair) from Sir G. Ogilvie Forbes (Berlin), D. BY TELEPHONE. 10th November, 1938. R 5.5p.m. 10th November, 1938 No.663. IMPORTANT My telegram No. 661. I have just returned from a tour of Friedrichstrasse and city districts where Jewish…
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9 Candles were on my last birthday cake,just one away from double digits . 9 Candles on my cake, one candle for each year. 9 Candles were lit, I could feel the heat of each of them. 9 Candles that punched 9 little holes in my cake. 9 Candles, not enough to light up the…
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Karl Friedrich Stellbrink was one of the 4 Lübeck Martyrs.I could have done a blog on all 4 but the reason why I chose Stelbrink is three fold. He was the only non Catholic clergy man of the 4. He was the first to be arrested. His wife was also victimized. All four men were…
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