History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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Water polo is not really known to be a violent sport .However today 60 years ago during the 1956 Melbourne Olympic games a Water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Unions nearly resembled a world was 2 sea battle. The “Blood in the Water” match was a water polo match between Hungary and the…
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It is funny how some social media posts are now being used in a similar fashion as the propaganda of the 1930s’ to 1945 in Germany. One should never underestimate the perception of ‘truth’. Just because someone says it is true doesn’t mean it is and just because someone says it is their idea, the…
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“Hell broke loose” was a December 1885 newspaper headline relating to the Servant Girl Annihilator in Austin,Texas. This case had striking similarities with the “Jack the Ripper” case, however it happened 3 years before the Ripper caused hell in London. Author Shirley Harrison contends that Jack the Ripper and the Servant Girl Annihilator were both…
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Walter Wagner was the notary who married Adolf Hitler to Eva Braun in the Führerbunker on 29 April 1945. Wagner was a lawyer and a member of the Nazi Party. He was known to Joseph Goebbels, who had previously worked with him in Berlin. As the Allies approached Berlin, he had been drafted into the…
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Anton Adriaan Mussert ( 11 May 1894 – 7 May 1946) was one of the founders of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) and its formal leader. As such, he was the most prominent Dutch fascist before and during World War II. During the war, he was able to keep this position, due to…
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I am actually not a great fan of Comic books or Graphic Novels as they are called now, although I did read them as a kid but was never really fascinated by them. However I do like the notion of Super Heroes and I do like them portrayed in the movies. But in a…
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I did a blog recently about JFK and found out that the same day JFK was assassinated , the authors CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley had died. This made me wonder how more historical event were forgotten because they were over shadowed by even bigger events. Below are a few examples. Harriet Quimby Although her…
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On Saturday 25th November 1944 at 12.26 pm [only 2 weeks since the first V2 rocket hit London] at a busy shopping parade in New Cross a V2 rocket hit without warning destroying most of the parade [including the Woolworths and Co Op stores, now Iceland and New Cross Library] in the massive explosion 168 people…
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I am a great sports fan and even though I don’t support a particular team(bar the Dutch soccer team), I do watch all the major sporting events. The Olympic games ,both summer and winter, are events I really enjoy watching, perhaps it’s because the Dutch generally do well in them. They are 13th in the…
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