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Holocaust survivors seek $20 billion in Nazi-era policies

21 novembre
Thousands of aging Holocaust survivors in the U.S. want Congress to clear a path for them to sue European insurance companies they contend illegally confiscated Jewish life insurance policies during the Nazi era and have refused to pay an

Croatia’s ex minister arrested for post-World War II crimes

5 novembre

Croatia’s former interior minister was arrested Wednesday over accusations that he ordered mass killings of anti-communists soon after the end of World War II, police said. Josip Boljkovac, 89, and two other former ranking Croatian officials have been under investigation for…

Russia open secret files to refute Hitler’s escape from bunker

22 ottobre

Russia is planning to put the files detailing the death of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker on display to disprove allegations in a new book that he escaped to Argentina after the war. Author Gerrard Williams and Simon Dunstan claim…

Van Gogh «a été tué» selon une nouvelle biographie

17 ottobre

Quand les professeurs du monde entier parlent de Vincent Van Gogh à leurs élèves, ils racontent comment le peintre torturé a mis fin à ses jours dans un champ de blé d’Auvers-sur-Oise. Mais les auteurs d’une nouvelle biographie du peintre…

How Adolf Hitler tried to get out of speeding fine

10 ottobre

But was he driving? Documents revealed Adolf Hitler had asked chauffeur Julius Schreck (pictured behind the wheel) to drive fastAs speeding tickets go it was just one of thousands handed out in the 1930′s as the car took over a once provincial Germany and the autobahns opened the country up to the common man. But the man who received

New Picture Emerges of Jack the Ripper Suspect

3 settembre

Despite the near-century and a quarter distance separating us from the murders ascribed to Jack the Ripper, the desire to solve the crimes and identify the culprit is undimmed. In the latest development, a foremost Ripperologist has commissioned the BBC

In Israel, diggers unearth the Bible’s “bad guys”

18 luglio

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 6, 2011, volunteers and archeologists work at the excavation site in Tel el-Safi, southern Israel. At the remains of an ancient metropolis in southern Israel, archaeologists are piecing together the history of a people remembered chiefly as the bad guys of the Hebrew Bible. The city of Gath, where this year's digging season began this week, is helping scholars paint a more nuanced portrait of the Philistines, who appear in the biblical story as the perennial enemies of the Israelites. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)At the remains of an ancient metropolis in southern Israel, archaeologists are piecing together the history of a people remembered chiefly as the bad guys of the Hebrew Bible. The city of Gath, where the annual digging season began this week, is…

Ukrainian court: Soviet flag on Victory Day unconstitutional

17 giugno

Ukraine’s Constitutional Court ruled as unconstitutional on Friday a law allowing red Soviet Victory flags to be used at annual Victory Day parades in the country. A member of the Our Ukraine – People’s Self Defense nationalist opposition bloc took the…

Wild wild West: Taking Stock of the Pony Express

13 giugno

Young Robert Haslam started as a simple laborer, building way stations for the fledgling Pony Express, but he was soon offered an opening as an express rider—an offer he eagerly accepted and a job at which he quickly excelled. On…

Les Russes pensent avoir retrouvé restes des Romanovs

12 giugno

Des archéologues russes pensent avoir retrouvé les restes de membres de la famille impériale exécutés par les Bolcheviks et jetés dans des fosses communes mises au jour par hasard dans la forteresse Pierre-et-Paul de Saint-Pétersbourg.

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