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I know what you all are thinking “He is Dutch, he must have been smoking some funny stuff” Rest assured nothing could be further from the truth. 30 February was actually a real date, well at least in Sweden. February 30 was a real date in Sweden in 1712. Instead of changing from the Julian…
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It would of course be unfair to say that all Germans and Austrians were guilty of the atrocities carried out by their leaders. But it is also unfair to believe that no one of the ordinary citizenship knew what was happening. The excuse of “we didn’t know” should not always have been taken for granted.…
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This is probably one of the most disturbing murder cases in history. The fact that the victim was a toddler is awful enough but knowing that two 10-year-old’s, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson from England, who killed and mutilated the body of the 2-year-old James Bulger, makes it nearly unfathomable.Even more disturbing is that the killers have been…
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Operation Reinhard (Einsatz Reinhard) became the code name for the German plan to murder the approximately two million Jews residing in the so-called Generalgouvernement (Government General).The Generalgouvernement was the part of German-occupied Poland not directly annexed to Germany, attached to German East Prussia, or incorporated into the German-occupied Soviet Union. As many as…
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The Nuremberg Laws (German: Nürnberger Gesetze) were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany. They were introduced on 15 September 1935 by the Reichstag at a special meeting convened at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). The two laws were the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, which forbade marriages and…
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HNLMS Van Nes was a Admiralen-class destroyer of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The Admiralen class were eight destroyers built for the Royal Netherlands Navy between 1926 and 1931. All ships fought in World War II and were scuttled or sunk.. The Van Nes was laid down on 15 August 1928 at the Burgerhout’s Scheepswerf en Machinefabriek…
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The young boy at the far left in the photograph above is Stephen Ross, a 14-year-old Jewish orphan from Poland, who said that he had survived 10 different concentration camps in 5 years before he was liberated at Dachau. In 1939, Stephan Ross was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. Stephan and…
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It has always been a puzzle to me why Ireland stayed ‘neutral’ during WWII. Aside from the German attacks on Irish merchants ships. The country was also bombed several times in deliberate acts of war against the republic. Forgotten History-Irish WWII Losses On 26 August 1940, the German Luftwaffe bombed Campile in broad daylight.…
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This may seem a strange title for a WWII related subject but in fact it is probably more appropriate then you’d expect. One of the definitions of Supply Chain Management is “the management of the flow of goods and services,involves the movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods…
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Lincoln and JFK. – Lincoln’s name has 7 letters – Kennedy’s name has 7 letters – Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846 – Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946 – Lincoln was elected president in 1860 – Kennedy was elected president in 1960 – Lincoln was succeeded, after assassination, by vice-president Johnson – Kennedy was succeeded, after assassination, by vice-president…
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