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Originally posted on History of Sorts: ? Today marks the 76th anniversary of the August Frank memorandum. The August Frank memorandum of 26 September 1942 was a directive from SS Lieutenant General August Frank of the SS concentration camp administration department (SS-WVHA). The memorandum provides a measure of the detailed planning that Frank and other Nazis…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The MV Kerloguehas become the exemplar of neutral Irish ships during World War II. She was very small. She was attacked by both sides and rescued people from both sides. She was almost sunk by a German mine and was attacked by the Royal Air Force, being left for dead.…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Alderney camps were prison camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during its World War II occupation of the Channel Islands. The Channel Islands was the only part of the British Isles to be occupied. The Nazis built four camps on Alderney. The Nazi Organisation Todt (OT) operated each…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This may seem a strange title for a WWII related subject but in fact it is probably more appropriate then you’d expect. One of the definitions of Supply Chain Management is “the management of the flow of goods and services,involves the movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: We know all about Rommel and his Africa Korps and Montgomery’s X Corps. The Battle of El Alamein is one of the most famous battles of World War 2, but all of this took place in the North of Africa Very little is known about the South African involvement…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Many people think that terrorism is a relatively new phenomenon which really only started in the late 1960’s But nothing could be further from the truth.?Scholars dispute whether the roots of terrorism date back to the 1st century and the Sicarii Zealots, to the 11th century and the Al-Hashshashin,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Anyone who has seen Schindler’s List will remember Ralph Fiennes’s portrayal of this man. I say man reluctantly because even though he looked, walked and talked like a man, he was really an animal. Amon Leopold Göth was born on 11 December 1908 in Vienna. He was married twice,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The Imber friendly fire incident took place on the 13 April 1942 at Imber, England, during the Second World War. One of the Royal Air Force fighter aircraft taking part in a firepower demonstration accidentally opened fire on a crowd of spectators, killing 25 and wounding 71. Pilot error…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: WWII saw so much evil but also so much bravery. People with disregard of their own lives would defy the Nazi authorities to save lives of others, often complete strangers whom they’d never met before prior to saving them. These people are not always recognized enough for what they…
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