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June 28, 2022 · Crime
In 1941 the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was attacked by the Germans and its alliances in World War Two. These were called “The Axis Powers”. After Adolf Hitler announced his plans to annex Yugoslavia, the government that was pro-axis was overthrown in a coup. Yugoslavia was attacked from all sides of the country and didn’t have […]
June 28, 2022 · People
Hermann Göring, also known as “Der Dicke” because of his stocky build, was a notorious Nazi leader. During the First World War, he was a celebrated fighter pilot. When the Nazis came to power, Göring became Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe. In 1939, Adolf Hitler appointed him as his successor and deputy. During the Second World […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He became known worldwide with his work The Gulag Archipelago, in which he wrote, among other things, about the labor camps in the Soviet Union. When the secret service in his country finds out in 1945 that he has spoken negatively about […]
June 28, 2022 · Art
When the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933 with Hitler as their leader, the NSDAP (Nazi Party) immediately abolished all types of art that didn’t properly fit into their image art. They called it: “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art), and this term made a lot of artists being defined it as “Not good for the […]
June 28, 2022 · Ancient World
Women’s right has been an important issue for a couple of decades, and it still is, but what if I tell you there was an ancient civilization where women had more rights than in some modern countries? The Ancient Egyptians were quite tolerant regarding women, many of their gods were female, and the divine femininity […]
June 28, 2022 · People
Jacob Nacken, born Jakob Hudson Nacken, was a German circus performer who performed throughout Europe and the United States in the early twentieth century. He began his professional career as a performer in a traveling circus as a child, and he made his debut as an abnormally tall person during the 1939 New York World’s […]
June 28, 2022 · People
Cleopatra’s paternal dynasty was Macedonian Greek, but her mother’s identity is uncertain. Here is what coins, portraits, and historical records can—and cannot—tell us about her ancestry and appearance.
June 28, 2022 · People
Did you know that Hitler was obsessed with the occult? Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke published a book about this in 1985, called: The Occult Roots of Nazism. In this book, Clarke analyzed the occultism in Hitler’s ideology. The most important conclusion that he formed was that many of the stories about occultism in Nazism or a certain […]
June 28, 2022 · War
Elizabeth II, also known as the Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, is the last surviving head of state from World War II. I didn’t know about this as I stumbled on a picture of the longest-reigning monarch and started to dig into this story. In this article, I’ll tell you when, […]
June 28, 2022 · Facts
You’ve probably heard of Genghis Khan, he conquered many countries, killed a lot of people and raped so many women while doing this — but the thing you might not yet have heard of is the fact that a lot of those women gave birth to his kids. Nowadays, there are still people that are direct descendants […]