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#OnThisDay: Heute vor 78 Jahren, am 27. Januar 1945, erreichte die Rote Armee Auschwitz-Birkenau. Es war das größte Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager der Nazis, über 1,1 Millionen Menschen wurden hier ermordet. (1/7)
„Was ich dort gesehen und gefilmt habe, war das Schrecklichste, was ich während des Krieges je gesehen und aufgenommen habe“, erinnerte sich der Rotarmist Alexander Woronzow später. (2/7)
Die SS hatte vor der Befreiung durch die Rote Armee fast 60.000 Lagerinsassen auf Todesmärsche getrieben, Akten über ihre Verbrechen zerstört und noch bis zum 25.1. systematische Massaker an den verbliebenen Häftlingen verübt. (3/7)
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 02/04/2022 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/dai…
Hard barriers and soft power: Study assesses outsider perceptions of border walls
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#BorderWalls, #SoftPower, #InternationalRelations, #NationSecurity, #PersonalPerception
Individually optimal choices can be collectively disastrous in COVID-19 disease control | BMC Public Health | Full Text
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#IndividualOptimalChoices, #PublicHealth, #InterventionNoncompliance, #SpreadSuppression, #ResearchResults
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With #YomHaShoah tonight, recall what the Turks did to the Armenians AND the near massacre of the Jews of Eretz Yisrael.
16,000 Jews of Jaffa-Tel Aviv were expelled in 1917 on the eve of Passover. 20% died from hunger & disease.
Below: grave marker over 224 dead in Kfar Saba 1/ Image
Why didn't the Turks unleash a genocide or mass expulsion of all Jews in WW1? The British army was pushing out of Sinai into Palestine, & the Turks saw the Jews as traitors. Some Jews exiled in 1914 fought w the British at Gallipoli.

What saved the Jews? 2 German generals. 2/ Image
Two German generals - commanders in Palestine of Turkish-German forces - refused the Turkish pashas' orders to expell the Jews of Palestine. They were backed by German diplomats contacted by Vatican sources.
1st: Gen. Kress van Kressenstein
2nd: Gen. Erich von Falkenhayn
WHY? 3/ ImageImage
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