Holocaust
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It is not always a good thing to be a law-abiding citizen. Don’t worry; I am not encouraging anarchy, but it is a fact that many things that we now know were evil and vile were once laws. Like slavery once was legal and written into law. Combine that with a nation whose culture it…
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(updated February 15, 2024) Now that the we are only a few months away from the UEFA Euro 2024 and , it is a good opportunity to look at one of the sport’s legends. Ernest Erbstein, aka Ernest Egri-Erbstein was a Jewish-Hungarian football player and He was involved in football as a player and coach…
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It is often said that the death of a million is a statistic but the death of one is a tragedy, and unfortunately this is true. People just become desensitized when they see the pictures of a great number of corpses. It is just human nature, a defense mechanism because the brain just can’t fathom the…
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So many people say that World War 2 should be left in the past, it’s been more then 7 decades now and we should move on. And to an extend they are right. However what these people forget is that the effects of WWII are still current in ways that they didn’t even consider, many…
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Dear Simone Frajermauer you were 3 when you were murdered in Auschwitz. It was August 3 1944. It was 24 years before I was born. I never met you but yet you broke my heart. Now on this day July 11,2021 your eyes stared into mine and they have a question for me? They ask me”Have…
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Wilhelm Kube was a devout Christian as well as a zealous Nazi. Those 2 aspects of his life clashed a few times during WWII. In July 1941, just after the German occupation of the western parts of the Soviet Union, he was appointed Generalkommissar for Weissruthenien (now known as Belarus). As Generalkommissar he was in…
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More so than any other extermination or concentration camp is Auschwitz associated with the mass extermination of Jews. However it did not start of that way. At the beginning Auschwitz was a relatively ‘small’ camp and the first prisoners were Polish political prisoners, most of them were Catholic and only 20 or so were Jews.…
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So many involved in the Nazi atrocities did get off so lightly or escaped punishment altogether. How the judges in the war crimes trials came to some of the sentences or lack thereof has always been a puzzle to me. Additionally there were also many how fled to countries where they knew they would face…
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The Holocaust is a word everyone knows the meaning of, yet no one understands. No one understands why it happened, at least not really. People will say it is because of the political ideology of a few, who wanted to eradicate all of those who they deemed undesirable. However, it is not that easy, Throughout…
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