Holocaust
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Ilse Weber (January 11, 1903 – October 6, 1944) née Herlinger, was born in Witkowitz near Mährisch-Ostrau. A Jewish poet, she wrote in German, most notably songs and theater pieces for Jewish children. She married Willi Weber in 1930. She was transported to Auschwitz with the children of Theresienstadt and killed in the gas chambers, along…
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I have heard and read a lot of Holocaust survivor stories and the one thing they all had in common was that they never gave up hope. I think that is a greater feat then the actual survival. How can you keep hope when you see your family and friends being taken away or being…
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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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It is just unfathomable how many of the most evil and vile war criminals escaped justice. It is something the German government and other European and American governments should be deeply,deeply ashamed off because they escaped under their watch. Gustav Franz Wagner (18 July 1911 – 3 October 1980) was am Austrian member of the SS…
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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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“A child is born with no state of mind, blind to the ways of mankind.”(From the song “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, written by Melle Mel and Duke Bootee.) During World War II, as in any other war, all the children were victims, without exception. Of course, the degree and severity…
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One of the aspects of WWII I find most disturbing is really what happened after the war, so many of the Nazi criminals got away with murder and were never brought to justice. Often helped by Nazi sympathizers or worse yer by allied forces. Aribert Ferdinand Heim (28 June 1914 – 10 August 1992)was an…
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George John Lionel Maduro (15 July 1916 – 8 February 1945) was a Dutch law student who served as an officer in the 1940 Battle of the Netherlands and distinguished himself in repelling the German attack on The Hague. He was posthumously awarded the medal of Knight 4th-class of the Military Order of William,…
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Hubert Marshal Butler (2 October 1900 – 5 January 1991) was an Irish essayist who wrote on a wide range of topics, from local history and archaeology to the political and religious affairs of eastern Europe before and during World War II, he also traveled to Nazi Austria on his own initiative and at his…
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On the night of 9/10 November 1938, in an incident known as Kristallnacht—Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht (also referred to as the “Night of Broken Glass”), approximately 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. On that night,…
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