Israeli archaeologist digs into Nazi death camp…Sobibor

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The most touching find thus far, he said, has been an engraved metal identification tag bearing the name of Lea Judith de la Penha, a 6-year-old Jewish girl from Holland who Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial confirmed was murdered at the camp.

Haimi calls her the “symbol of Sobibor.”

KIRYAT MALACHI, Israel (AP) — When Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi decided to investigate his family’s unknown Holocaust history, he turned to the skill he knew best: He began to dig.

After learning that two of his uncles were murdered in the infamous Sobibor death camp, he embarked on a landmark excavation project that is shining new light on the workings of one of the most notorious Nazi killing machines, including pinpointing the location of the gas chambers where hundreds of thousands were killed.

Sobibor, in eastern Poland, marks perhaps the most vivid example of the “Final Solution,” the Nazi plot to…

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Who voted for the Nazi’s in Germany

In 1928, the Nazi-party got less than 3 per cent of the votes in Germany. In 1933, Hitler got 43 per cent of the votes in the city of Munich.

Since this topic was raised by a Roman Catholic commenter, I took a deeper look into the matter.

Who were the Germans who voted for the Nazi-party? Were they Protestants, or were their mainly Roman Catholic?

This question is interesting because Germany the Roman Catholics and Protestant is an equally large group with 34 per cent of the population each.

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) won the election in Germany in 1928 with 29,8 per cent of the votes.

The party had its power base in Northern and central Germany, mostly populated with Lutheran Christians. In the Catholic west and south, the voters chose the Bayerische Volkspartei (BVP) or the Centrum Party.

When the World economy cracked in 1929, it…

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