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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is probably one of the most disturbing murder cases in history. The fact that the victim was a toddler is awful enough but knowing that two 10-year-old’s, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson from England, who killed and mutilated the body of the 2-year-old James Bulger, makes it nearly unfathomable.Even more disturbing…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: It has always been a puzzle to me why Ireland stayed ‘neutral’ during WWII. Aside from the German attacks on Irish merchants ships. The country was also bombed several times in deliberate acts of war against the republic. https://dirkdeklein.net/2016/05/10/forgotten-history-irish-wwii-losses/ ? On 26 August 1940, the German Luftwaffe bombed Campile…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Walter Süskind (29 October 1906 – 28 February 1945) was a German Jew who helped about 600 Jewish children escape the Holocaust. He was a member of the Dutch Jewish council (Dutch: Joodsche Raad) during the Second World War. Süskind was born in Lüdenscheid in Germany as the first…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: As so often before Varian Fry is the prove that one man can make a difference. Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is the line in the Hippocratic oath which was so often ignored by the Nazi physicians. “Also I will, according to my ability and judgment, prescribe a regimen for the health of the sick; but I will utterly reject harm and mischief” Nazi doctors such as Josef Mengele…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: “A mentally unstable, violent fanatic and alcoholic, who had the habit of erupting into violence under the influence of drugs” is how he was described by one of his contemporaries. Oskar Dirlewanger (26 September 1895 – 7 June 1945 (certificate of death), a German military officer, was the founder and…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: When we think of the WWII war crime tribunal we usually think about the Nuremberg Trials, however there were several trials for the Nazis weren’t the only ones who had committed war crimes. The Japanese Imperial Army were also guilty of atrocities, and some of them were more brutal…
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