World War 2

  • I wish I could myself in your shoes and understand what you went through, but I can’t. I could never understand the pain you suffered or the hate you encountered. Nor could I imagine the anxiety you must have had. I wish I could myself in your shoes or see the world through your eyes,…

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  • Der Stürmer is probably the most vile newspaper ever published. It was nothing more then Julius Streicher’s Anti-Semitic propaganda tabloid. It was however popular and made Streicher a wealthy man. It wasn’t the official Nazi newspaper, in fact some leading Nazis did not like it at all. Joseph Goebbels tried to ban the newspaper in…

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  • Not only were the Nazis a murderous bunch, they also stole and destroyed art and denied the German people the right to read some of the most classic books. JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit was one of those books. However, the book could have been published if Tolkien had neglected his principles. However, such was the character…

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  • Train journeys for Jews

    The terror the Jews ,in Nazi Germany, had to undergo was not only physical. Probably the most sickest aspect was the psychological terror. The Nazis took over every element in the lives of the Jews, they decided who lived and died. And none of the victims knew when their time would come, because the criteria…

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  • The Nazi had a well oiled propaganda machine which was very effective,not only to sell their warped ideology but also when it came to recruiting for the SS and other branches of the army. They also had a very effective propaganda program outside Germany. The picture above is a Dutch SS recruit poster saying “For…

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  • The title is actually from a Hip Hop song but it is so true. A child is a blank canvas and is open to all experiences. He or she will listen to adults and will trust them blindly because they are innocent and don’t know better then to trust. When their parents are taken away…

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  • 8301

    8301, not just a number or mathematical equation. 8301 sacrifices made for the freedom of others. 8301 young lives ended by violence 8301 heroes 8301 reasons why we should never forget what hate,ignorance and intolerance can do. 8301. although a large number it is only a small percentage of the overall sacrifices made. 8301 men…

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  • The Transport 64  from Westerbork in the Netherkands , was the designated transport number for the moving of 2511 people to Sobibor in Poland, on May 18th 1943.(The transport also had designated number 12, there would often be more numbers for 1 transport) Most of them were residents of the city of Nijmegen. In the…

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  • Why?

    Why do you hate me? We have never met before. How can you look at me and feel a justification to kill me? Why do you follow orders of someone who doesn’t care about you? How can you still consider yourself a human being. Why do you hate me? We have never met before How…

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  • Operation Market Garden started on September 17 1944. It was supposed to end the war in the Netherlands.But the operation failed, as a result the war was prolonged for several months,compounded with one of the severest winters on record it resulted in a famine for the northern provinces. But there was more,as a form of…

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