Thinking about history

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Restoration of a painting based on the Chicago Memorial Day massacre

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Move over Australian Emu War, I give you… the CANADIAN RAT WAR!!!

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The next in the series:

This for the years 1936 – 1938. Some people see their lives coming together, and others see their lives falling apart. Topics covered include:

  • The Olympics
  • The election
  • A jewish couple’s trip to Israel
  • A mother describes her teenage daughter considering suicide
  • The Anschluss
  • Other fun stuff
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[ETA] One more of these…

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archive link

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At least i find comfort that people now recognize her importance and her contributions. Still sucks that she had to endure a hard life and discrimination from manbabies of her time.

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I notice they’re still using 365 day years, though…

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The latest:

It continues to be gripping personal histories.

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A couple of the citations…

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Lucy Salani was assigned male at birth, so when she came of age she was conscripted into the Italian army. She soon deserted—the first of several daring escapes that eventually landed her in Dachau.

She’s one of the only trans people to testify about their experiences in Nazi concentration camps.

I found out about her on r/history, and the TERs are in holocaust denial mode on there.

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