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- Aug 8, 2017
- 3 min
The Treaty of Sèvres and how Atatürk stopped Europe from partitioning Turkey.
At the end of WW1 the Ottoman empire was defeated and in shambles with European armies occupying large parts of it and its capital...
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- Aug 5, 2017
- 4 min
How the bombing of Nagasaki forced Japan to surrender and ended WW2.
On August 6, 1945, at 8:16 am, Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the world’s first atom bomb, over the city...
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- Jul 13, 2017
- 3 min
Russia's unknown Circassian genocide.
For over 100 years – between 1763 and 1864 – the Circassians fought Russian armies in the mountains of Caucasia, who coveted their lands....
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- May 9, 2017
- 1 min
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German anti Nazi martyr.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor, theologian and an anti-Nazi dissident. While literally almost everyone in Germany before and...
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- May 8, 2017
- 2 min
"Victory day" was really "Occupation day" for most Europeans.
WW2 in Europe ended on May 8, 1945, when the Western allies and Soviet Russia accepted the unconditional surrender and capitulation of...
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- Mar 24, 2017
- 2 min
Adolf Heusinger and the Hitler - NATO connection.
General Adolf Heusinger was Adolf Hitler's Chief of the General Staff of the Army during World War II. With the outbreak of the Second...
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