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13 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Did you know Hitler was attacked in London in May 1933?!!

Well technically... it is the max model of him from Madame Tussauds that someone threw red paint at. ;)
I assume they put that sign on him as well, not Madame Tussauds. Image
Addendum; the photo shows the statue being taken to Marylebone Police court as evidence against the attackers; three men and a girl.
More pictures, but we don't know the names of the vandals yet, so we can't buy them or their descendants a drink.
I wonder if their descendants know about this, if it was a story often repeated, if newspaper clippings were on the wall at home or if it was never mentioned or forgotten.
Would they surprised if one of us one day offered to buy them a drink?

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15 Aug
On this day in 1945 a brave Danish Dutch diplomat drove his car into a Japanese concentration camp and saved my grandmothers and thus my life.
A thread.

It is August 15th 1945, my grandmother and her daughter (2 years old) are prisoners in Japanese concentration camp Lampersari. Image
When the Japanese invaded the Dutch Indies families were separated, men and women in separate camps, the situation there was atrocious.
Not enough food, terrible treatment and lots of abuse.
Not as bad as in most Nazi camps, but still inhumane and horrific. Image
You may have seen the film 'Empire of the Sun', made in 1987 by Steven Spielberg with Christian Bale.
Although not without its flaws it still has a few familiar scenes to the situation my family was in.

'Paradise Road' is a film with a similar theme you may have scene. Image
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13 Aug
Is this a Helmet of a German flame-throwing soldier, WW1?
Not quite.
According to the Memorial de Verdun it is a breathing apparatus originally used by firefighters and modified, maybe as an experimental model, to protect wearers from smoke, but was never used on the front lines. ImageImage
A few pictures of similar helmets as used by firemen; ImageImageImageImage
Maybe they experimented with it as a flame-throwers mask but it's all a bit vague so claiming it was a flame-throwers mask is iffy.
Maybe people just assumed it because in the museum it hangs next to a flame throwers kit.
As pic 3 shows they don't seem to have needed it. ImageImageImage
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10 Aug
Dutch proposal for annexing part of Germany to make up for WW2 and as a buffer zone.
Ok, ok, I'll share the whole booklet.
Here's more on the whole subject;
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_ann…

"Our debts are their fault"
Who was it who back then started about "Lebensraum"?
We live with 275 people on 1 square kilometre, they with 131 people.
ANNEXATION!!!
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8 Aug
Apparently it is #InternationalCatDay
So here is a thread with just a lot of random cat related historical images to feast your eyes on. ImageImageImageImage
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4 Aug
Briton Rivière RA (14 August 1840 in London – 20 April 1920 in London) was well known for his animal paintings.
I'm a sucker for this sort of stuff so here's a thread with some of his work.
You're allowed to get wet eyes.

Requiescat (1888; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)
Companions in Misfortune
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3 Aug
I recently got @MagellanTVDocs & have been absorbing shows like a sponge.
First one I'll review; 'The Neanderthal in us'.
Watch it for free for 7 days here:
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As you probably noticed, I've been slightly obsessed with Neanderthals lately so when this one popped up I jumped in.
It's an easy to watch documentary that starts with a nice reconstruction of how the bones in the Neanderthal were found.
Pretty soon the documentary starts explaining that the idea of the dumb cave dwelling savage is nonsense.
YES, that's exactly what I like to hear.
Go Neanderthals.
Humans really like thinking everybody who came before them was worse than they were.
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