Nazis, I hate those guys.

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Apparently, it was worse than we thought; worse than we feared. Recent discoveries have revealed that the scope of the Nazi killing machine was even more pervasive both within Germany and without than we even thought possible. http://www.aish.com/ci/s/The-New-Holocaust-Discoveries.html  (2013): 42,000 ghettos and camps from 1933 - 1945 30,000 slave labour camps 1,150 ghettos 980 concentration camps 1000 prisoner of war camps 500 brothels with sex-slaves and thousands of other camps in Europe, the new number is 15 -20 million killed or imprisoned by Nazi Germany during the war; 6 million may just be the tip of the iceberg. This article questions the reality of 'innocent bystanders' in Germany and beyond....possibly rightly so. In 2014, apparently they took up the road covering the Sorbibor ovens.... http://www.inquisitr.com/1486015/nazis-never-wanted-this-secret-found-archaeologist-unearth-horrendous-discovery-in-poland/ With the collapse of the Berlin Wall an...

4 April 2017 Today, I was reading The Iron Cross, A History 1813-1945 by Gordon Williamson. As happens most of the time, I began a 'Wiki-chain': I looked up 'Iron Cross' on Wikipedia which led me to the Wikipedia page for Gordon Williamson . I was shocked to see some remarks by an "S. P. Mackenzie" which floored me. I almost threw my book across the room! A revisionist?? Gordon Williamson is a revisionist?!?! How can someone who wrote, "The SS: Hitler's Instrument of Terror" be a revisionist??? From Wikipedia :          Williamson has authored over 20 books on the Waffen-SS and the Wehrmacht . [4] The  military historian S.P. MacKenzie describes Williamson as a writer who attempts "to restore the tarnished reputation [of the Waffen-SS] and reiterate its superb fighting qualities" by relying on veterans' narratives, with "predictably positive results". [5] MacKenzie includes Williamson's books among the wor...

Blutorden 'Blood Order'  commemorating the 9 November 1923 Munich Beer Hall Putsch 1500 recipients in first group, all numbered In 1938 extended to others who were not in the Putsch but were deemed to have sacrificed for the party. Last recipient was Heydrich posthumously http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Order German Militaria blog   has a nice article about autheniticating Blood Orders. http://shrani.si/f/3O/qp/6SGbzw7/nsdap-024.jpg http://shrani.si/f/t/13C/Wcno8Yw/nsdap-022.jpg http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/images49_gr/41916.jpg http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/military_photos/orders-decorations-3-reich/146919d1286531946-blutorden-2nd-pattern-franz-schwede-coburg-pommern-b.jpg Wikipedia has a list of 30 recipients but without numbers....I'm working on finding at least a partial list of numbered orders with names, pictures, etc. Unnumbered Blood Orders belonged to Hitler and Goring http://...

The holders of this badge were considered Major Offenders by the De-Nazification committee. Over 100,000 were awarded; the German Militaria Blog has a very detailed description here. from Third Reich Eagles

Christopher Ailsby has a wonderful blog entry on this badge with pictures and history here.