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“Hitler was our saviour” This is what happens when you vote for a megalomaniac and a narcissist. Cologne, 1945

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22.02.1909|Alexander Pechersky was born in Kremenchuk (Ukraine). As a captured Red Army lieutenant of Jewish origin, he was deported to the German Nazi death camp SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor in September 1943. Together with Lejba Felhendler he planned and led the prisoner uprising on 14.10.1943.

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đź’Ş

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🧵 1/n On February 22, 1944, Primo Levi was deported to Auschwitz. Arriving there, 95 men, 29 women of the 650 women, men, and children on this train were selected and registered as prisoners and assigned to the camp. The remaining 526 people were murdered in the gas chambers.

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He nails it.

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For the first weeks, Americans seemed frozen, expecting institutions to do something. Americans were used to “checks and balances” and “guardrails” working. That didn’t happen. People realized that they had to take matters into their own hands. 👇

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1/n "Red Plague" (Polish: Czerwona Zaraza) is a poem, written in 1944 by Józef Szczepański, a World War II–era poet, who died during the Warsaw Uprising. The poem, which described the failed hopes of Warsaw insurgents that the Red Army would save them, was banned in the People's

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22 February 1972 🇨🇭 Paul Grüninger passed away. He was a #Righteous during World War Two. The Swiss Border Commander Who Falsified Documents To Save Jews 1/n Paul Grüninger used his position to quietly help thousands of desperate refugees enter Switzerland.

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