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Some Nazis literally pitchforked toddlers to the death and threw the corpses in the back of trucks. They made lampshades out of the skin of Jews. The did endless macabre medical experiments on Jews.

The level of evil in them was beyond description.

If you can try to imagine something from a horror movie...anything you can imagine...the Nazis basically did.

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The true model of the Statue of Liberty.

Bartholdi’s model was the French Isabelle Boyer, married to the American industrialist Isaac Merrit Singer (from the famous sewing machine company), then to the Duke of Camp Selice in Luxembourg.

In 1878, the Duchess of Camp Selice, 36, drew the attention of the sculptor who forever immortalized her features on Lady Liberty's face.
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Leipzig, Germany, 1945
Deputy Mayor Dr. Ernst Kurt Lisso, his wife Renate Stephanie, in chair, and their daughter Regina Lisso after committing suicide by cyanide in the Leipzig New Town Hall to avoid capture by US troops. April 18, 1945.

Nearly 200 Germans walked out of city hall with their hands up. Inside, the bodies of Mayor Alfred Frieberg and his wife, City Treasurer Kurt Lisso and his wife and daughter, and several others who had committed suicide were found.
 
Japanese-American Soldiers - Most Decorated Unit in US Military History!!!

The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army. The regiment is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry (Nisei) who fought in World War II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)#:~:text=The 442nd Infantry Regiment was,fought in World War II.


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mellowyellow said:
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Leipzig, Germany, 1945
Deputy Mayor Dr. Ernst Kurt Lisso, his wife Renate Stephanie, in chair, and their daughter Regina Lisso after committing suicide by cyanide in the Leipzig New Town Hall to avoid capture by US troops. April 18, 1945.

Nearly 200 Germans walked out of city hall with their hands up. Inside, the bodies of Mayor Alfred Frieberg and his wife, City Treasurer Kurt Lisso and his wife and daughter, and several others who had committed suicide were found.
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My family was from Leipzig. We are from a Jewish background. My grandmother's brother, was a playwright there. When the Nazis came to power, he took his own life. He was a friend of Kurt Weil. He knew Brecht, but not very well.


My grandmother often told stories of the Gevanthaus...the opera house in town. Mendelssohn performed there.

Felix Mendelssohn and the Leipzig Gewandhaus​



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JonSR77 said:
Japanese-American Soldiers - Most Decorated Unit in US Military History!!!

The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army. The regiment is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry (Nisei) who fought in World War II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)#:~:text=The 442nd Infantry Regiment was,fought in World War II.


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I've read about this regiment, Jon. I read as much as I can find about the subject of the Japanese-American war experience.

As you know, I'm Japanese-Canadian. My father's name and photo is included in a couple of books about JC soldiers who joined the Canadian army.
 
Pinky said:
I've read about this regiment, Jon. I read as much as I can find about the subject of the Japanese-American war experience.

As you know, I'm Japanese-Canadian. My father's name and photo is included in a couple of books about JC soldiers who joined the Canadian army.
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Did your Dad serve in WWII?
 
Pinky said:
I've read about this regiment, Jon. I read as much as I can find about the subject of the Japanese-American war experience.

As you know, I'm Japanese-Canadian. My father's name and photo is included in a couple of books about JC soldiers who joined the Canadian army.
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Also, let me know about your Dad's involvement with the Montreal Canadians hockey team....
 
Pinky said:
I've read about this regiment, Jon. I read as much as I can find about the subject of the Japanese-American war experience.

As you know, I'm Japanese-Canadian. My father's name and photo is included in a couple of books about JC soldiers who joined the Canadian army.
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but serious about the question about his service. My father was in the Army Corp of Engineers and later an MP.

My stepfather was a staff sergeant at Fort Dix, in NJ.
 
Käthe Paulus was a German exhibition parachute jumper and the inventor of the first collapsible parachute.

At the time, in 1910, the parachute was named the "rescue apparatus for aeronauts.”

The previous parachutes were not able to fit in a case like apparatus worn on the back, thus Paulus' invention became of paramount importance for the Germans in the First World War. She produced over 7,000 parachutes for the German forces.

She is also credited with inventing the "drag 'chute,” an intentional breakaway system where one small parachute opens to pull out the main parachute.

She was the first German woman to be a professional air pilot and the first German woman aerial acrobat.
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James Bond Author Ian Fleming Met Real Life Spies

Churchill’s Toyshop

Ministry of Defence 1 (MD1), also known as "Churchill's Toyshop", was a British weapon research and development organisation of the Second World War.
Its two key figures were Major Millis Jefferis and Stuart Macrae, former editor of Armchair Science magazine.

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Churchill’s Toy Shop

In Britain's darkest hour Winston Churchhill assembles a team of eccentric geniuses to fight the Nazi menace by building biizzarre brilliant weapons.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4648892/

Movie Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsS01Z816vQ

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“Book - Churchill's White Rabbit: The True Story of a Real-Life James Bond”



A revealing biography of Edward Yeo-Thomas GC, the man who inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond

Edward Yeo-Thomas GC was one of the bravest of the brave. A fluent French-speaker, he joined SOE and was parachuted into occupied France three times to work with the Resistance. Appalled by the lack of help the British were providing, he managed to arrange a five-minute meeting with Winston Churchill, during which he persuaded him to do more. On his third mission he was betrayed and captured by the Gestapo; he suffered horrendous torture before being sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, from where he eventually managed to escape, making it back to Allied lines shortly before the end of the war. This biography reveals new information about how the torture affected Yeo-Thomas, the state of SOE-Resistance cooperation, Gestapo typhus experiments at Buchenwald, and how "White Rabbit," Yeo-Thomas, provided the inspiration for Ian Fleming's famous secret agent, James Bond.
 
According to Aristotle, happiness consists in achieving, through the course of a whole lifetime, all the goods — health, wealth, knowledge, friends, etc. — that lead to the perfection of human nature and to the enrichment of human life.


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"Galileo is accused of heresy​


On April 12, 1633, chief inquisitor Father Vincenzo Maculani da Firenzuola, appointed by Pope Urban VIII, begins the inquisition of physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church. Standard practice demanded that the accused be imprisoned and secluded during the trial.

This was the second time that Galileo was in the hot seat for refusing to accept Church orthodoxy that the Earth was the immovable center of the universe: In 1616, he had been forbidden from holding or defending his beliefs. In the 1633 interrogation, Galileo denied that he “held” belief in the Copernican view but continued to write about the issue and evidence as a means of “discussion” rather than belief. The Church had decided the idea that the sun moved around the Earth was an absolute fact of scripture that could not be disputed, despite the fact that scientists had known for centuries that the Earth was not the center of the universe.

This time, Galileo’s technical argument didn’t win the day. On June 22, 1633, the Church handed down the following order: “We pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo… have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy, that is, of having believed and held the doctrine (which is false and contrary to the Holy and Divine Scriptures) that the sun is the center of the world, and that it does not move from east to west, and that the earth does move, and is not the center of the world.”

Along with the order came the following penalty: “We order that by a public edict the book of Dialogues of Galileo Galilei be prohibited, and We condemn thee to the prison of this Holy Office during Our will and pleasure; and as a salutary penance We enjoin on thee that for the space of three years thou shalt recite once a week the Seven Penitential Psalms.”

Galileo agreed not to teach the heresy anymore and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It took more than 300 years for the Church to admit that Galileo was right and to clear his name of heresy."

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/galileo-is-accused-of-heresy
 
Yasuke, an enslaved African, who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the first black Samurai.

The True Story of Yasuke, the Legendary Black Samurai

https://time.com/6039381/yasuke-black-samurai-true-story/#:~:text=New%20Anime%20Series-,The%20True%20Story%20of%20Yasuke%2C%20the%20Legendary%20Black,Behind%20Netflix's%20New%20Anime%20Series&text=In%201579%2C%20an%20African,of%20his%20life%20after%201582.


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A statue of Yasuke, an enslaved African, who arrived in Japan in 1579 and became the first black Samurai.
Yasuke was a man of African origin who served as a Kashin under the Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga. In 1579, Yasuke arrived in Japan in the service of Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, Visitor of Missions in the Indies, in India.
Origin: Mozambique
Height: 6' 0''
Battles/Wars: Battle of Tenmokuzan, Honno-ji
Rank: Retainer, Bodyguard

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