History

Gudrun Himmler was the daughter of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. Although he was responsible for millions of deaths, his daughter always repeated that he was misunderstood and she tried to justify his crimes. Heinrich Himmler always flew her and his wife to visit him when he was …

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And yet they would have deserved. During the invasion many women volunteered to defend the country. The Germans executed all those they took as soldiers, often having raped them beforehand, as well as the political commissars. But anyway they starved their 5 million Soviet prisoners, when they didn’t use them in their “experiments”. Roza Shanina (1924–1945): The …

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About ten years ago, a very unique set of photographs was unveiled to the world by an amateur historian. It contained hundreds of portraits of innocent men and women, who had just been sentenced to death for imaginary, and generally utterly absurd crimes. Their faces marked with incomprehension, they stare at the camera and are immortalized …

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In the 1860s, abused children in the United States were not protected by law. So animal activists had to step in to rescue an abused girl. Mary Ellen Wilson was America’s first child abuse case and started welfare rights for abused children. If you hit and mistreated your furry animal, the newly formed ASPCA (American Society for the …

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Officially, only one: Italy. He is the only one to claim the name. Thus, describing as “fascist” other regimes of the same type at the same time immediately constitutes an abuse of language… It was actually Stalin who popularized the term, but only after World War II. In his mind, the term is used to designate Hitler’s National …

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The First Lady of the Third Reich: Magda Goebbels. Magda, 29, wanted a radical change in her life. So she took the path of a fanatic life married to Joseph Goebbels a failed author, fiercely anti-Semitic and anti-Christian. At 20, she was married to Günther Quandt, father of her son Harald, a wealthy industrialist, but …

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The date was September 17, 1788 and the Battle of Karánsebes had just begun in what is now present-day Romania. At that time, Austria – allied with the Tsar – and Turkey were in conflict over the Danube River. The Austrian army, the star of all this confusion, was made up of Poles, Czechs, Germans, French, Serbs, …

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Here are some interesting facts about Chinese history: #1 The last emperor of China, Emperor Puyi, ascended to the throne at the age of 3. #2 The use of chopsticks in China has a history of over 4,000 years. #3 The Art of War, a book on military strategy, written by Sun Tzu over 2,500 …

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I’m going to do the whole analysis based on Brazil’s position in relation to these colonies, and you alone will deduce the answers. The systematization, description and analysis of Brazilian positions in relation to the Portuguese Question, in the General Assembly and in the Security Council of the UN, between December 15, 1960, with the …

Why was Portugal unable to keep its overseas territories in the 20th century? Read More »