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Cricket, classic cars, history, travel, photography and art. Quondam representative of the Minimax Fire Extinguisher Company. Blocked by @mfa_russia.
Mar 19, 2023 9 tweets 4 min read
So, here goes. This is a very grim story indeed. In November 1944, ten girls and ten boys aged between 5 and 12 were brought to the Neuengamme concentration camp from Auschwitz as subjects for medical experiments with tuberculosis pathogens. In an attempt to erase the traces of their crimes, the SS took the children to the former school building on Bullenhuser Damm in the Hamburg borough of Rothenburgsort on 20 April 1945. Until a few days previously. the building had served as a satellite camp of KL- Neuengamme.
Nov 7, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
Behind the windows of this beautiful villa on the shore of the Wannsee in Berlin, fifteen men met on the morning of Tuesday, January 20, 1941. Ten of the fifteen were university graduates. Eight of them had doctorates. Eight of them had studied law. One of them died as recently as 1987, having - unbelievably - successfully practiced law in post-war West Germany.
Nov 4, 2021 22 tweets 9 min read
So, busy old history day today, following in the last footsteps of one of the most repulsive specimens of humanity ever: Heinrich Himmler. To provide a little context I'm attaching a timeline of his movements in May 1945 together with a basic map (to make @guywalters happy). This is the timeline.