Tuesday 5 September 2017

Happier times in Alt Deutschland


Never forget: my personal link to the Holocaust


Documentaries to watch

Eisatzgruppen (Netflix)

Auschwitz: the Nazis and the final solution (Netflix)

Secrets of the 3rd Reich (Netflix)

World War II in Colour (Netflix)

The World at War (narrated by sir laurence olivier)

Hitlers Bodyguard (Netflix)

Books I have read on WW2


  • Guderian: Panzer Leader
  • Von Manstein: lost victories
  • Winston Churchill: the second world war volumes 1-6
  • operation barbarossa (forgot the author)
  • guy walters: hunting evil


currently reading:
  • Hans Baur: I was Hitlers Pilot
  • Peter Levenda: Unholy Alliance

Too afraid to write this graffiti during the war, but they did after it ended


An intriguing pre-war painting by Grosz

First came across this in history class in France in the early '90s (college de Reignier)

It has stuck in my mind since


Was Eva Braun Jewish?

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/did-adolf-hitler-marry-a-woman-of-jewish-descent-dna-tests-show-eva-braun-associated-with-ashkenazi-9239784.html

"My grandfather would have shot me"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2438552/Jennifer-Teege-Black-woman-granddaughter-notorious-Schindlers-List-Nazi-butcher-Amon-Goeth.html

Dr Reinhold Busch's book on the Jews of Hagen

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11601402

https://www.amazon.de/Schicksal-j%C3%BCdischer-Familien-Hagen-Dokumentation/dp/3933345367/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1504606278&sr=8-13&keywords=reinhold+busch 

Henry Ford was an anti-semite, it seems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew

Nicholas Winton: a true hero


Nicholas Winton honoured by Czechs for saving children from Nazis

what do dictators like to eat?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30313326

Pea soup was Hitlers favourite, and that combined with his habit of gasping in large amounts of air and talking whilst eating, was what contributed to his flatulence problems

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