History
General history issues, although a lot will be about WW2
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On January 27, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz. The unit discovered approximately 7,000 prisoners left behind in Auschwitz by the fleeing Nazis—individuals too weak or ill to walk. They also found around 600 corpses. Among the liberators was Ivan Martynushkin, who later shared his harrowing account of that historic day. He is the last…
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The Warning Signs of the Nazi Regime Many people believe that the warning signs of the Nazi regime only became apparent in 1933, while others trace them back to Adolf Hitler’s publication of Mein Kampf. However, evidence shows that Hitler had been formulating his plans long before these milestones—years before the National Socialist German Workers’…
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From January 1945, in the final months of the Third Reich, approximately 250,000 concentration camp inmates perished during death marches and in numerous acts of mass slaughter. These prisoners were murdered mercilessly by SS guards, army and police units, and, in many cases, by civilian mobs as they passed through towns and villages in Germany,…
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