History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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Les Morts Dansant is a 1984 song by Magnum. from their classic album “On a Storytellers night” The song was initially called “Cannon”, this Tony Clarkin composition is about one of the horrors of war. In World War I, a surprising – some would say disgraceful – number of British soldiers were executed by firing…
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+++contains female nudity+++ The Japanese culture always fascinated me, usually in a scary way, but occasionally in a more pleasant way. Ama pearl divers represent one of Japan’s less-known and yet fascinating cultures. Ama (海女 in Japanese), literally translates to ‘woman of the sea’ and has been recorded as far back as 750 in the…
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A Rain of Bombs March 1945, two months before the liberation. Den Haag has by then been occupied by the Germans for nearly five years. It is the tail end of the Hongerwinter, and there is a shortage of almost everything. On March 3, an additional great tragedy strikes the residents of the Bezuidenhout district…
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Many still believe that Nazi atrocities were carried out solely by the SS, SS-Totenkopfverbände, Einsatzgruppen, and Waffen-SS, and not by regular Wehrmacht or Luftwaffe personnel. However, in recent years, evidence has shown that members of das Heer were also responsible for war crimes—sometimes committing acts even more brutal than those of the SS. Below are…
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Rolf Abrahamsohn was not only a witness to the Holocaust he was also witness to the remorselessness of some of his fellow country men. One day a few months after the war Rolf encountered a man who was hitchhiking. Rolf felt sorry for the man because he only had one leg, so he decided to…
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The story of Harrie and Trien Semler-Hendriks “Not a single day was without danger.” The most striking action of the underground resistance movement “De Vrijbuiters” in Maarheeze was the raid on the ration-distribution office in Valkenswaard in April 1944. The group also helped dozens of people in hiding. Yet here, in the border region with…
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Pvt. Claude Wilber Derrick was the son of Richard and May Isabel (Shannon) Derrick of Canterbury, New Brunswick. After being killed in action on March 2,1945, in Germany, he was first laid to rest in a temporary cemetery in Bedburg. In keeping with the order that no Canadian fallen remain on German soil, his remains…
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Dirk VI served as the Count of Holland from 1121 until his death in 1157. Succeeding his father, Floris II, at the age of seven, he initially ruled under the regency of his mother, Petronilla of Lorraine. His reign was defined by a delicate balancing act: acknowledging the Bishop of Utrecht as his overlord while…
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