Tag Archives: History

Indian Soldiers

Soldiers from India fought bravely for Britain, a country it owed nothing, during the second world war. While I didn’t know this, it’s not too surprising that there was a subset of Indian soldiers who allied themselves with the Japanese in an attempt to drive the British out of India. I say this isn’t surprising [...]

Aryan Prophylaxis

I recently watched a documentary about the stripping of Jewish wealth by the Nazis running up to and early in the second world war. One of the companies it looked at is Fromms, currently the second largest condom manufacturer in Germany* and at one time the largest. In 1916 Julius Fromm invented a way to [...]