World War 2
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The History Channel has been showing a documentary series, Hunting Hitler. The aim is to prove that Hitler did not commit suicide but escaped to Argentina. Although intriguing and compelling, and if you are not au fait with the history—you might actually believe it. However, there are several parts of evidence that they have omitted from the…
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I don’t know how often I have watched this movie but it is one of my favourite war movies.It is funny though that you never really know anything about the real lives of actors or actresses. You may know something about the big stars in movies, but when it comes to the people who play…
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I am Kira Zylberszac or perhaps I should say I was Kira Zylberszac. My age is 7 years old I died on August 19 1942 together with my younger brother Serge, We did not die because we were sick or someway a threat to the world. We died because of an ideology. You see we were Jewish…
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I know the title is not PC, but it reflects the reality because these women were sexy. They would give any man a run for their money. They were not to be messed with and they were lethal. Either as part of the resistance or armed forces they were a force to be reckoned with.…
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Without a shadow of a doubt World War II was the darkest and most devastating era in history of mankind. But even in those dark days there was still some time for a bit of humour. The picture above is a letter addressed to Adolf Hitler, it’s basically saying what the author thinks about Hitler.…
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Before you read on let me explain the title of Nazi crimes trials. This is not about the Nuremberg trials or any other subsequent war crimes trials. This is about Nazis bringing Nazis to trial as ordered by Heinrich Himmler. I will give you a minute to leave it sink in. The chief investigator and…
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What would you to do save something your passionate about but is not necessarily essential to your own existence.Would you sacrifice your life? 9 scientists of the Leningrad seed bank did. After the Civil War had ended, Russia experienced a terrible famine between 1921 and 1922. Devastated by drought, the country produced a wheat-harvest half…
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The republic of Ireland remained neutral during WWII although it did specify the era as the “Emergency”, Northern Ireland however, as part of the UK, was not neutral. On January 26, 1942, the first American soldiers to land in the European theatre of operations in World War Two disembarked their troop ships in Belfast docks. …
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It is not clear if Tanya Savicheva was born on January 23 1930 or January 25 1930,there seems to be a discrepancy in some of the records. The one thing that is clear is she died age 14. She was the youngest child in the family of a baker father, Nikolay Rodionovich Savichev, and a seamstress mother,…
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