History
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On October 3rd 1283, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, became the first person to be tried for what later would become high treason against a king, he was also the first nobleman executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered. On Palm Sunday 1282 Dafydd ap Gruffydd attacked Hawarden Castle, in so doing,…
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I wish I could write about how Rachel de Groot survived the war and grew up to fulfill her potential, But I can’t, in fact I can’t even say that much about her. Not because there is not much known about her, because there is. The reason why I can’t say too much about Rachel…
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The 1936 Berlin were probably the biggest propaganda tool ever to be created by the Nazi regime, but I won’t go into the details of the actual games. I will focus on 3 people of Jewish descent. Two who survived the war and one who did a few days after the games. In 1935 teh…
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Today marks the 74th anniversary of the sentencing at the main Nuremberg trials.The sentencing took two days, with the individual sentences read out on the afternoon of 1 October. The Nuremberg trials were never really meant to serve justice. In one way I can understand it but on the other hand looking at the sentences…
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I wanted to change the title of the blog to evoke an emotion, but I figured if this doesn’t hit you in the gut nothing will. It is the actual title of the picture it is from a public domain. I only changed the names from German into the Polish names. When you don’t know…
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This is a blog I had wanted to do for a long time but was reluctant to actually start it. I was afraid it would be used out of context by both pro life and pro choice advocates. However this blog is really about desperation and inhumane sacrifices. I would therefore urge every one not…
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I could do a very lengthy blog about Richard Ira Bong but I decided to stay with the facts that really matter. For everything else I urge you to look up his name, so much has already written about him. He is credited with shooting down 40 enemy aircraft in aerial combat. The citation on…
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This blog only contains 2 pictures. A picture of a broken doll and a picture of some children’s shoes. Both were called pictures of Auschwitz artifacts, now I know the description is not meant disrespectful and was meant with the best intention and perhaps it is the only way to describe them. But the word…
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I had a dream last night. Why I had the dream, I don’t know, and I am not sure what it means, but it was a sad and beautiful dream, and that’s why I am sharing it. The dream was probably triggered by an article I read recently. The article said that the corpses of…
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++++courtesy of HSA-Holocaust Social Archive++++++++++++++++ She was the troubled daughter of the rabbi of Warsaw’s great synagogue; he was the son of a Polish Jewish leader. As neighbors they used to play together as children, but when they grew up, each went on their separate way. The leader’s son became a communist who fought in…
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