• +++++++++++++++++WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES+++++++++++++++++ The Nazis used forced labor to clean the Gas chambers. It was done by the so-called Sonderkommando, mostly made up of Jewish inmates who were selected because they were often young and still reasonably fit, fit enough to carry out physical labor. Being forced to clean the gas chambers was actually…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: It is a well known fact that the  North Korean dictator Kim Jong -Un has “issues” (to keep it PC). But this has been running in the family for generations. In the late 1960s, Kim Jong-il, heir to the North Korean dictatorship at the time, became interested in making…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: Anyone who has seen the movie ‘Alive’ will be aware of this story. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby union team, their friends, family and associates, that crashed in the Andes on Friday the 13th  October 1972, in an incident…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: Today marks the 101st anniversary of “the Mircale of the Sun”an event that occurred on 13 October 1917, attended by a large crowd who had gathered near Fátima, Portugal, in response to a prophecy made by three shepherd children that the Virgin Mary, referred to as Our Lady of Fatima, would appear…

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  • Punishments in Auschwitz

    Killing the Jews and other so called “subhumans” in Auschwitz just wasn’t enough for the Nazi regime. Examples had to be made too, these examples were made by carrying out punishments. Most of these punishment were carried out in Block 11 this was also the place where the first attempts to kill people with Zyklon…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: Without trying to sound too much like an old fogy but most of the “Celebrities” nowadays don’t really contribute anything to society as a whole. Sure, some entertain us with their sporting skills or talents(some don’t even have that) but as far as actually contributing some worth while or…

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  • Old Enough

    My name is Frouktje Oudgenoeg, I am 2 years old. My last name means Old Enough. That is exactly what I am. I am old enough to sing and dance. I am old enough to play outside in the garden, come rain or shine. I am old enough to get my face dirty with jam…

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  • Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Sack of Wexford took place on October 11  1649, during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, when the New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell took Wexford town in south-eastern Ireland. The English Parliamentarian troops broke into the town while the commander of the garrison, David Sinnot, was trying to negotiate a surrender – massacring soldiers and civilians alike. Much…

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  • One of the most effective weapons during WWII, and indeed nearly every war, was propaganda. Where the Nazis mostly used their propaganda to incite fear and hate, the allies and especially the Brits sometimes adopted a different approach. They’d often used humour and satire in order to ridicule the Nazis and their beloved leader Hitler.…

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