Holocaust

  • I know this blog will be controversial however  I  do believe sometimes to get a message across is by showing how absurd things are. The fact is Adolf Hitler liked to dress up, I am not saying he was a drag queen but I think he may have had tendencies towards it,and behind closed doors…

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  • Two last letters

      These 2 letter are truly heartbreaking. The 1st one because it was written by a young boy showing appreciation for a gift, not knowing what fate waited for him after his mother had sent his letter. This one actually tore my heart to pieces. The 2nd one from a young man who knew exactly…

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  • Raid of the Ghetto of Rome

    There are two sad elements to this story. A-As so oft before during WWII victims had been given a sense of hope, often false hope given by the Nazi’s to even inflict psychological terror upon the physical crimes. However in this case the hope was given by the allies. B. So very little is known…

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  • The letter of Horror.

    This blog is not meant to judge, it is however meant for one thing. Just one question “What would you do?” It is a question of dying or living. The primal human instinct’Survival’ And there is no need to reply to this blog, just reply in your own mind with your own conscience. A buried…

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  •   I have been doing blogs on the holocaust now for about 18 months. I did  consider giving it a break for a while, not because I didn’t find the stories important but because at times my emotions were getting the better of me, and they were having an impact. However I then realised I…

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  • From 1940 to 1945 the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to fall under German Occupation. During that period, local courts continued to function and to apply Island law. Lawyers, judges and government officials in Jersey and Guernsey continued to swear oaths of allegiance to the British Crown. But German anti-Semitic laws and…

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  • I want to start by saying that the photographs in this blog do not actually portray the victims. But that is also the reason why this crime has been forgotten because this crime was shrouded in secrecy by the perpetrators and victims. Although there are no exact numbers it is estimated that 15% of all…

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  • Why them?

    I find it very hard to fathom any of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, but the one thing that gets to me most is the murder of children. They did not pose any threat or any kind of danger, neither did their parents, but the children had no option to defend themselves. They…

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  • One of the reasons why the Nazi’s became so powerful as they were, was because a lot of people and companies in Germany and indeed across the world decided to look away or ignore the atrocities because it suited their own agenda and lined their own pockets. The Associated Press At the height of World…

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  • Friedrich (Fritz) Schubert (21 February 1897, Dortmund – 22 October 1947, Heptapyrgion) was a Greek-speaking German NCO Sonderführer of the  Wehrmacht.  As head of the Jagdkommando Schubert, a paramilitary force terrorizing the civilian population during the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War II, he committed numerous atrocities in Crete and Macedonia. Tried by a special court for war crimes in Athens, he was found guilty over the killing of over 250 civilians, sentenced…

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