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Although the majority of Dutch citizens hated the German occupiers, many saw an opportunity in the situation they found themselves in. This is the story of approximately 7000 cowards who found it more favorable to pledge allegiance to an evil regime than to the country in which they were born and raised, the Nederlandsche SS…
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Born to a Russian peasant family in 1895, as a young man he quickly earned a reputation for “chernaya rabota”, or “black work”, while serving in the Tsarist army during World War I- gaining recognition from Stalin himself for his covert assassinations, torture, and executions. Blokhin quickly rose through the ranks of Russia’s secret police…
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Johannes Heesters a very controversial Dutch Tenor and actor, and although I try no to judge people I think it is save to call this man a traitor whose only passions were fame and wealth. Remembered for his roles in such mid 20th-century German-language films as Viktor und Viktoria and Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach,…
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One of my favourite songs is from a band called Extreme it is called “When I first kissed you” The opening line goes as follows.”New York city can be so pretty from a bird’s eye view” If history had gone a slightly different direction the lyrics to that song would not have been the same.…
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Josef Kohout (24 January 1915 – 15 March 1994) was an Austrian concentration camp survivor, imprisoned for his homosexuality. He is known best for the 1972 book Die Männer mit dem rosa Winkel (The Men With the Pink Triangle), which was written by his acquaintance Hans Neumann using the pen name Heinz Heger. Josef Kohout is the name; prisoner No. 1896, Block 6,…
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We all have heroes and that is important, you need someone to look up to. But Heroes are human beings like anyone else and sometimes they say or do things that are not so heroic. Following are some examples where some heroes said something very un-heroic.Some of these will really surprise you. John Lennon, on…
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Amidst all the fighting and drama there was still some space for romance during WWII, at the end of the day it is a fact that love conquers all. Women wave goodbye to troops, as they march off to WWII. England. 1939. A couple in New York’s Penn Station share a farewell kiss in 1943…
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The myth that men are the stronger sex has already been dispersed many times, Women have more stamina, a higher pain level and sometimes are physically even stronger. However they never have to suffer the Manflu though, but that is about it. It was never more true then during WWII. Physically they may not necessarily…
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The Ku Klux Klan has survived for more than 150 years. Its ideology of hatred and white supremacy continued to attract new members through the Holocaust, the civil rights movement, and the election of America’s first black president. It seems unbelievable that hatred could live on for that long, that anyone in the modern world…
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Of all the enemies Allied soldiers confronted during World War II, malaria proved to be among the most stubborn. The mosquito-borne disease was a constant scourge for soldiers stationed in the Pacific and Mediterranean theaters. General MacArthur’s retreat to the malarial Philippine peninsula of Bataan in early 1942 led directly to his sickly army’s surrender to the Japanese a…
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