World War 2
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I am always amazed by the fact that there are still people who desperately want to deny the Holocaust. Although there is so much evident and a lot of it very graphic, they still say it never happened and that the photographic evidence are staged pictures, produced by the allies. The one thing they do…
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An increasing amount of people say that stories of the Holocaust are no longer relevant and should be left in the past. I don’t subscribe to that point of view, remembering the Holocaust is now more important then it ever has been.In a time where some politicians are making policies based on hate, it is…
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Operation Pastorius will mean not much too most people. It is one of those forgotten WWII operations. Forgotten because it was a complete failure. Shortly after midnight on the morning of June 13, 1942, four men landed on a beach near Amagansett, Long Island, New York from a German submarine, clad in German uniforms and…
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This week marks the 80th Anniversary of the Germans building the Mauthausen Concentration Camp complex in Austria. From day 1, the camp’s aim was to make a profit. The prisoners from the Dachau Concentration Camp built Mauthausen and its many sub-camps, which effectively meant free labour. The Nazis had chosen the site because of the…
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I am just a boy on a rocking horse, not a man but a boy aged three. I am just a boy on a rocking horse, quite happy as you can see. I am just a boy on a rocking horse, I feel like a cowboy or a knight. I am just a boy on…
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The Political Department was the representative of the RSHA( Reich Main Security Office)in the camp, and its main objectives were Identification documentation Keeping files on individual prisoners Investigations Interrogations Intelligence service Surveillance Camp registrar (sometimes in conjunction with supervision of the crematorium) Wilhelm Friedrich Boger who had the nickname ‘the tiger of Auschwitz’, was an officer…
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This is going to be a short blog for it is impossible for me to do an in depth story without turning into an emotional wreck. Eva Heyman was a 13 year old Hungarian Jewish girl. I have a daughter the same age, with the same beautiful smile. Eva had one simple wish ,which she…
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The christian churches and especially the Catholic church have often been criticized for turning a blind eye to the Nazi regime, and to an extend that is true for they could have done more. However to say they did nothing is untrue, There were may clergy men who spoke out to Hitler and his friends,…
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One of the more disturbing and intriguing aspects about Hitler is his seemingly fondness of children,at least ‘aryan’ children. The same man who was responsible of millions of children to die, made sure he would use any photo opportunity with kids. He saw children in two ways, they were either impure and the offspring of…
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It is safe to say that the Olympic Games is the biggest sporting event.Every 4 years the event attracts the attentions of hundreds of millions sports enthusiasts and also people who have very little interest in sports. for aside from the sports it is also entertainment and especially the opening ceremony. But above the sports…
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