Dachau concentration camp was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, located about 16 km northwest of Munich. The camp opened on 22 March 1933 (51 days after Hitler took power) and it served as a prototype and model for the other Nazi concentration camps that followed. In the twelve years of…
“My country is not a country, it is winter.” I read this quote at the Musée de la civilisation from Quebec City and I liked it. I was there at the beginning of April and it was cold (very by my standards). The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré is situated 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Quebec City….
Hangar 79 The door’s glass windows still retain the bullet holes left by the Japanese attack. When I was about to leave the hangar, I saw a volunteer, a veteran of WWII (possibly from Pearl Harbor) sitting at a desk beside the door. I am not an extroverted person and, moreover, I was in a…
The USS Missouri (also known as “Mighty Mo” or “Big Mo”) is one of Pearl Harbor’s historic sites. It was on her deck where Japan signed the surrender that ended World War II. She was also the last battleship built by the United States. West Virginia, one of the ships that was sunk in the…