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The Holocaust (1933-1945)
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The Holocaust A genocide during World War II, where six million Jews and millions of others were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish…
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The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever
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Ole J Benedictow describes how he calculated that the Black Death killed 50 million people in the 14th century, or 60 per cent of Europe’s entire population The disastrous mortal disease known as the Black Death spread across Europe in the years 1346-53. The frightening name, however, only came several centuries…
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The BLACK DEATH: 1346-1353 epidemic
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The estimated number of deaths ranges from 75 million to 200 million, or between 30 percent and 50 percent of Europe’s population. The Black Death, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, first exploded in Europe between 1347 and 1351. The estimated number of deaths ranges from 75 million to 200…
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Part 3. Cannibalism in the Chinese great famine 1959.
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There are widespread oral reports, though little official documentation, of human cannibalism being practiced in various forms as a result of the famine. To survive, people had to resort to every possible means, from eating soil and poisons to stealing and killing and even to eating human flesh. Yang Jisheng,…
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Part2. Death toll The Great Chinese Famine
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The excess mortality associated with the famine has been estimated by former CCP officials and international experts, with most giving a number in the range of 15–55 million deaths. The Maoist author Gao Mobo claims that anti-communist writers prefer to stretch the death toll number as high as possible while…
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(Part 1) The Great Chinese Famine
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The Great Chinese Famine ‘three years of great famine’ was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Some scholars have also included the years 1958 or 1962. It is widely regarded as the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, with an estimated death toll…
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Disturbing footage has emerged showing the moment an angry mob tear the clothes off two women and cut their hair after they were suspected of shoplifting.
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The pair were also shoved and kicked as they lie on the ground and try to shield themselves from the blows. The incident was filmed by onlookers in the town of Tapachula in the south-western Mexican state of Chiapas. It was then shared on Twitter , where it has been viewed over…
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The Heartbreaking Story of a Father and Daughter Separated by War: The Photo That Moved the World
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**👨 👧 A hug after 11 years of silence… ** Imagine a father who never saw his daughter growing up. In 1956, Karl Wawrzinek, a German soldier captured by the Soviets in 1945, finally reunites with Roswitha, his 12-year-old daughter, whom he had left when she was just a baby.…
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