The Good Old Days: The Holocaust As Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders

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However, if you browse around a little, you'll find us covering pretty much everything (with varying intensity) from the earliest home systems (late 1970s) to the end of the last millenium. However, in a world of extremes between the rich and poor, for most people it was often hellish, violent and filled with death. While people didn't enjoy the terrible smells of the horse manure littering the busy city streets, it's what they knew and were used to. Still, it's a good start, and a useful corrective to nostalgia by people who have no real memory of the historical times chronicled (which, let's face it, is all of us, by now.

Rushdoony, Gary North, Larry Pratt, David Barton, and other Dominionists promote the New England Puritan theocracy of the 17 th and early-18 th centuries as one such period. The words Please and Thank you were in use, bank tillers could do maths without the need of a calculator. Bettmann takes us on a tour of the past that will keep you turning the pages while amusing you at the same time.Carefree days with a camera by the lineside or on station platforms without all the security and bother of today. For a time, the succeeding century was also host to wistful yearning, despite its apt nickname, the " Gilded Age. Many subjects are covered including crime and punishment, the crushing poverty of the lowest classes, education, employment, disease, sanitation, inequality and others.

In Lithuania, Jews were clubbed to death with crowbars before cheering crowds, while mothers held up their children to see the spectacle and German soldiers clustered like fans at a sporting event.I just wanted to let you know that the books have arrived safely here in Townsville, North Queensland. This book was quite useful for learning about the seedier past of the city, and the really shocking conditions for the poor and marginalized there, that we often don't discuss. It's not like someone dropped a 21st century person down in the middle of the fetid streets of Victorian New York City, rancid with decaying meat and the aforementioned manure and the lack of proper sewage and any fresh air. Everyone has forgotten what it was actually like at the turn of the century and how terrible it was.

It's either that Filipinos have had their brains rotted by social media so much that they couldn't tell what's real from bullshit, that Marcos played into the desperation of those affected by the pandemic by being charitable [note 3] and promise them instant prosperity, or maybe Filipinos are just so "good" at their judgement that they'd vote for a dancing pig over a stern yet honest leader. The alternation of their sentimental words with these horrific images documents a chilling incapacity for human feeling. Indeed, in their personal letters and journals the camp guards are far more disturbed by delayed vacation leave or by shortages of small luxuries than by the executions they carried out daily, which they also noted, briefly and without comment.The Good Old Days: Crime, Murder and Mayhem in Victorian London by Gilda O'Neill is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in mid-December. As such these compositions are not your standard 3/4 front loco portraits, instead they reflect what we all wish we had recorded more of when we still had the chance. I absolutely loved her somewhat cynical assessment that, just like in the present day, if you were healthy, wealthy, and male, things would probably work out just fine; but if you were any combination of the opposites of those three things, you face a much tougher time. note 4] Two of the oldest zigzagged aimlessly over the waters of a trout stream, discussing history with some younger members of the evening hatching. Top secret reports filed by SS officers recount the pressure exerted by the Reich to devise ever more effective methods of killing.