Holocaust

  • Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the executions of Bruno Tesch& Karl Weinbacher . I was able to find a few pictures of Bruno Tesch but none from Karl Weinbacher.   After the war, several employees of the companies that had supplied Zykon B to the SS in the concentration and extermination camps were brought…

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  • Operation Bernhard

    This story had all the makings of a great spy movie and no wonder that in 2007 ,film director Stefan Ruzowitzky made the movie “The Counterfeiters” which won the Oscar for best movie in a foreign Language. Operation Bernhard was the name of a secret German plan devised during World War II to destabilise the British economy by…

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  • I was actually doing research on a Sobibor victim called Ben Ali Libi which was the stage name of Michel Velleman , a Dutch Jewis magician who died in Sobibor on July 2nd 1943, But although there is a lot of mention of Ben Ali Libi there is actually little information. However I will do…

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  • Although this probably isn’t forgotten by historians and WWII aficionados, I think that at large it is forgotten by most others and especially the younger generations. Although his name would indicate a Jewish origin it was never proven he was from Jewish descend. Alfred Ernst Rosenberg ( 12 January 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a Baltic…

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  • This week marks the 1st anniversary of the trial against Oskar Gröning- the ‘Bookkeeper’ of Auschwitz. So it’s a good opportunity to look back at his life and his trial. More than 70 years have passed since the liberation of the death camps and many of those involved have now died. So the trial of…

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  • Forgotten may not be the best description for this man, since he has been remembered in fact earlier this year a movie ,with the title”Persona Non Grata” about him was released in the cinema. But a lot of people on the globe,including me; have never heard of this man. I was tempted to call him…

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  •   This is mot a scientific fact, it’s just my opinion and observation but it seems to be that those who have committed horrible crimes in WWII(and who weren’t captured) appear to have long and prosperous lives. What is even more disturbing not all escaped war criminal fled to South America, some of them had…

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