History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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I have to be honest, the title and the 2 pictures above are a bit misleading. Yes this blog is about the relationship between Hitler and Wagner but with Winifred Wagner , the daughter in law of Richard, the wife of Siegfried Wagner, the son of the composer. Winifred Wagner (born Winifred Marjorie Williams; 23
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It is a popular misconception that the concentration camps were a Nazi invention, but in fact the British had already established concentration camps in South Africa during the 2nd Boer war. It could be argued that the Indian reservations in the US were also concentration camps. But of course the sort of camps which were
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936Date: 6–16 FEBRUARY sources https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/garmisch-partenkirchen-1936 https://beeldbankwo2.nl/nl/beelden/?mode=galleryu0026amp;view=horizontalu0026amp;q=16%20februariu0026amp;rows=25u0026amp;page=1
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Some of the perpetrators of the Holocaust just went about their business as if it was the most natural thing in the world. In the above photograph, you see a picture of the first German commander of Camp Schoorl SS-Untersturmführer Schmidt visiting Amsterdam as if he was a tourist. He is just one of the
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The name Erika might have a nice ring to it but like all other Nazi concentration camps, Erika was a place of distress and torture.Erika was a Nazi concentration camp. The camp was situated at the Besthemerberg near Ommen, the Netherlands. The camp was designated mostly for Dutchmen convicted of black market trade or resistance
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The title of this post, I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust, is from a 2005 documentary produced by MTV (yes, MTV). It starred several famous actors reading excerpts from diaries of young people who lived during the Holocaust—most murdered. I’ve mentioned the full-length movies in this post. I also picked
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Before you all start writing to me about the obvious error in the title, let me assure you it’s not an error, neither is it one of his plays. William Shakespeare had 3 children, 2 daughters Susanna and Judith and one son called Hamnet. Susanna was born in May 1583, six months after the wedding of
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On January 27 in 1945, Soviet troops walked through the gates of the Auschwitz complex, and I say complex—because Auschwitz was more than one camp. What they saw, they could not believe. Rather than going through all the horrors on this UN-designated Holocaust Remembrance Day, I have opted to show some art of those who
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Viewing the photograph above, you can see a few boys having fun. You might ask yourself, “Who are these boys?” or “What game are they playing? I don’t know who these boys are. I know they were cared for by the BjZ or Buitenschoolse Jeugdzorg, a part of the Jewish Council in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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The shoe of a child, looking at the type of shoe, it probably belonged to a boy. The shoe of a child, I can see the front is faded maybe he kicked a ball, his favourite toy. The shoe of a child, what was his name? The shoe of a child, did he like to
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