Zinaida Portnova: The Teenage Partisan Who Became A Soviet Hero During WWII
Zinaida Portnova was a typical teenager in Belarus, but when the Nazis invaded in 1941, she became a deadly Soviet resistance fighter who would be...
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Cars, Cross-Dressing, And Espionage: Inside The Life Of Star Athlete And Alleged Nazi Spy Violette Morris
The woman with 14-inch biceps made history as an athlete, but Violette Morris was defamed by a sexist government and rumors of Nazi collaboration. In...
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Meet Francesco Lotoro, The Jewish Composer Preserving The Music Of Holocaust Victims
Ever since he discovered music created by concentration camp prisoners in 1988, Francesco Lotoro has been working tirelessly to revive every single musical note left...
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Franz Jägerstätter: Repulsed By Nazism, He Chose The Guillotine Over Pledging Loyalty To Hitler
When Franz Jägerstätter saw the evil of the Nazi regime all around him, he refused to become complicit in its crimes. Wikimedia CommonsFranz Jägerstätter Based...
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The Biggest History News Stories Of 2019, From Tut’s Tomb To The Knights Templar
Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty ImagesIn 2019, the gilded coffin of King Tutankhamun was removed from his tomb for the first time in 3,300 years. It was in...
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The 10 Most Controversial On-Screen Portrayals Of Adolf Hitler
From actors who did extensive research to those who chose not to portray the Führer accurately at all, these Hitler movies reveal wildly different takes...
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Meet The Donut Dollies, The Unsung Women Who Gave Out Sweet Treats On The Front Lines
Inspired by a simple idea from female volunteers in 1917, the work of the Donut Dollies spanned decades and helped boost the morale of American...
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The Harsh Truth Behind 11 Of Your Favorite Historical Movies
Pilot Kenneth Taylor, who is portrayed in Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor, allegedly called the movie “a piece of trash; over-sensationalized and completely distorted.” To turn...
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The Disturbing Story Of Kapos: The Concentration Camp Inmates Nazis Turned Into Guards
For better food, a separate room, and protection from hard labor and the gas chamber, some prisoners became kapos — but they had to beat...
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Adolf Hitler’s Childhood Home Is Being Turned Into A Police Station
What to do with the property has long been the subject of tense discussion. After decades of uncertainty, the Austrian government has finally made a...
