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

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Instead, we still had interesting first-generation diesel & electrics to entertain us in those days just about everything was in blue or blue and grey, not that we minded as we enjoyed a diet of Deltics, Class 40s, Peaks and Class 25s along with a wide variety of other types all now passed into history. This book is a good intorduction to the modern reader of some of the problems that ordinary people faced from the 1820's to the 1890's. sustainability-our-award-image' => 'https://www.mountfaberleisure.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/membership-icon-4.png',

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The rich did pretty well, but despite many new inventions--telephone, telegraph, transcontinental railroads---the average person had it very hard. The last section of the book is on the extermination camps and the soldiers and doctors who were at Sobibor and Belzac as well as the camp Kulmhof. The men write of their experiences in a manner that does affect them but they still continue to do "the work" of dropping Zyklon-B into the gas chambers as they comment on the "excellent" food in the officers commissary at Auschwitz. wedding-event-ideas-featured-image' => 'https://www.mountfaberleisure.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/membership-icon-5.png', pro-pac-list-image' => 'https://www.mountfaberleisure.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MicrosoftTeams-image-22.png', sustainability-gallery-image' => 'https://www.mountfaberleisure.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/membership-icon-4.png',medium_large' => 'https://www.mountfaberleisure.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MicrosoftTeams-image-22.png',