Holocaust And Rain

What Nobody Teaches You About The Holocaust

Barry Weiss | Mama Magazine | 21st July 2026

A difficult read. “The story we tell ourselves about the Holocaust is the story of the survivors, which means it is the story of the camps. But it is not how most Jews died.” The camps were undoubtedly horrific, but the majority of European Jewry were killed on WWII’s Eastern front, in “a continent-wide eruption of murderous violence carried out primarily by local populations against their own neighbours” (3,800 words)

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Rain Robbers

Chris Bennett | AgWeb | 9th June 2026

True crime story of four Colorado cowboys who faked a drought to receive millions of dollars in drought insurance. How? The insurance program was based on rain amounts and not crop performance. They devised an elaborate scheme to manipulate the rainfall gauges in their area to show lower measurements. “They permanently changed the country’s quality-controlled data and climatological record” (4,200 words)