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WWII saw so much evil but also so much bravery. People with disregard of their own lives would defy the Nazi authorities to save lives of others, often complete strangers whom they’d never met before prior to saving them. These people are not always recognized enough for what they have done.Geertruida (Truus) Wijsmuller-Meijer aka Auntie…
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Johan (Joop) Westerweel (January 25, 1899, Zutphen – August 11, 1944, Vught) was a schoolteacher and a Christian anarchist who became a Dutch World War II resistance leader, the head of the Westerweel Group. Westerweel along with Joachim Simon and other Jewish and colleagues, helped save in the region of 200 to 300 Jewish lives by organizing…
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We often hear the stories of the special forces during WWII and without a shadow of a doubt they were all heroes. However the heroes that are often forgotten are those of the Medical Corps, while being shot at they ran into the battlefield to attend the wounded. The red cross often functioned as a…
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In every war innocent children are killed this is called “Collateral damage” , I hate this description because it is young human lives that are destroyed and not just material things. The unfortunate fact though is that this is still a reality in many countries nowadays. Bad as this is during ,WWII children were being…
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+++++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++++++++ No one will argue that the Nazi’s and their crimes are among the worse ever committed in history. However the Japanese were just as bad of not worse. The difference is that the Nazi’s focuses their crimes on certain groups, where the Japanese killed indiscriminately. Below are pictures of Japanese War Crimes,…
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The Army is a reflection of society, it has different layers and characters.It has clergy men, Physicians, Nurses, Police and even teachers. But like the wider society it also has members whose intentions are less honorable. Even those who are considered the good guys and the liberators. Paris 1944, and French citizens are cowering in…
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Man’s primal instinct is to survive at any cost and in order to do so some have done things which could be considered as selling your soul to the devil. Does this mean we can judge them? In some cases we can but in other cases we have to understand the situation they were in.…
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Not many people know that the poisonous gas Zyklon B was first used on Russian Prisoners of War, long before the Nazi’s had decided on the ‘final solution’ at the Wannsee conference. Today marks the 76th anniversary of the first mass killing by Zyklon B. SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch (10 July 1903 – reported missing 2…
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++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++ I generally don’t like showing horrific images, but every now and then we need to reminded how evil man can be and how low mankind can sink. This blog will containg horrific images but they are not even the worst.As they say a picture paints a 1000 words, these pictures paint a…
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Reluctantly, I call this remarkable hero a martyr simply because the word ‘martyr’ often has a negative connotation. However, in his case, he was truly a martyr, as he sacrificed his life to save others rather than destroy them. This man was simply a good man who saw evil for what it was and decided…
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