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A HISTORICAL FACT OF DAILY LIFE THAT MOST PEOPLE WON’T BELIEVE ACTUALLY HAPPENED
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Let’s be real for a moment: the Middle Ages were a wild time, especially when it came to medicine. I mean, we’re talking about a period where if you had haemorrhoids (piles), you weren’t just handed some soothing cream and sent on your way. Oh no! You were in for…
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“The nameless, little slave girl never screamed throughout the ordeal”
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There have been so many unspeakable deeds of monstrous evil committed throughout history. But, there is a handful of crimes that defy imagination, let alone belief. Sometimes a story can be so disturbing that even retelling of the events that had taken place long ago could be deeply traumatizing. However…
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Five shocking Nazi experiments conducted that horrified the world
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During World War II, the Nazi regime, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, conducted numerous horrific and unethical experiments on human subjects. These experiments were carried out by various individuals, including doctors and scientists, in concentration camps and other facilities. While it is important to note that there were many…
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On 27 May 1942, 168 prisoners were shot at the execution wall in the courtyard of Block 11 in Auschwitz I.
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They belonged to the group of Poles were arrested by Germans on 16 April 1942 in the Artists’ Cafe in Krakow and deported to Auschwitz on 24 and 25 April. The prisoners were taken to the courtyard four at a time and shot. The following sentence was uttered: “For the…
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The Reason Why Hamas Refused To Surrender To Isreali
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The reason that rational people would surrender is to save their own lives and the lives of non combatants. But Hamas are not a group of rational actors, despite what the masses of university students who support these murderers, rapists and torturers by calling them a “resistance” organization. These fools…
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De Loys’s ape
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Louis François Fernand Hector de Loys (1892–1935) was a Swiss oil geologist. He is remembered today for the claim that he discovered a previously unknown primate, De Loys’s ape, during a 1920 oil survey expedition in Venezuela. The identity of the animal he photographed has long been established with considerable confidence to be a spider…
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Poland Women naked, before their execution
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Among the millions of photographs that are related to Nazi death camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau. They show a completely different perspective, which makes them unique when dealing with visual material of the Holocaust and the Holocaust as…
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Johann Pauls Execution
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Johann Pauls (born 9 February 1908 in Danzig – died 4 July 1946 in Gdańsk), also John Pauls, was a German SS-Oberscharführer in Stutthof concentration camp. Career Pauls was the third child of Johann August Pauls and Minna Steingräber. He joined the NSDAP, along with the SS, in the Free State of Danzig on…
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1941: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
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On this date in 1941, Soviet partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was hanged by the Wehrmacht for sabotaging buildings behind German lines near Moscow. A statue of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya stands vigil over Moscow’s World War II-era Partizanskaya metro station. Image used with permission. One of the most famous Soviet war heroines and the…
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“Wooden Horse or Spanish Donkey”
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The wooden horse, or Spanish donkey, was an extremely painful and gruesome medieval torture device. It was first used by the Holy Inquisition in France and then in Spain and Germany, and then migrated to the Americas, gaining prominence during the colonial period. The main design was the same wherever…