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On May 30, 1943, Dr. Joseph Mengele began his “work” at Auschwitz. Unlike other camp physicians, who were assigned to prisoner selections according to a rotating schedule, Mengele actively sought this duty. He was the only doctor to volunteer for selections when new transports arrived by train and would sometimes ask to take over another physician’s assigned shift, derivi...


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The death of Dirk.

It’s not every day one gets a chance to do a blog about one’s own death, and especially not before breakfast, but hey history is history.

But before you start sending flowers and cards etc, the Dirk in the title is not me of course , but Count Dirk III of Holland, or West Friesland to be more precise.

It is thought that Dirk III went on pilgrimage to t...


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A bit of forgotten Movie history on the 122nd birthday of one of Hollywood’s greatest Cary Grant.

Cary Grant’s near-casting as James Bond is one of the most revealing “what-ifs” in film history, because it shows how the Bond franchise defined itself by not choosing the most obvious star.

By the late 1950s, Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels were successfu...


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Nazi Railways

We have all seen the pictures of the cattle wagons used to transport the Jews and other ‘Undesirables’ to the concentration camps and ghettos. Without a shadow of a doubt the Nazi Railways network played a pivotal role in the ‘Final Solution’ .Ironically(for the lack of a better word) though the same network also potentially contributed to the downfall of the ‘...


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I have to be honest, the title and the 2 pictures above are a bit misleading. Yes this blog is about the relationship between Hitler and Wagner but with Winifred Wagner , the daughter in law of Richard, the wife of Siegfried Wagner, the son of the composer.

Winifred Wagner (born Winifred Marjorie Williams; 23 June 1897 – 5 March 1980) was the...


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