Category: Modern
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Book Review: Cold Case Kennedy
The assassination of John F. Kennedy still stirs the minds of historians and conspiracist alike, given the amount of publications on the matter. The murder on that faithful 22th of November 1963 still echoes strongly in our collective memory, while many believe the 35th president of the United States would have been able to cope…
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CIA says Josip Broz Tito was a Russian
Thats wat the Serbian newspaper Blic Monday bases on a released document of in the U.S. secret intelligence agency CIA. In this four pages long document an analysis is made of Tito’s use of the Serbo-Croatian language during a speech held in 1977 by the former president of Yugoslavia. According to this analysis, Tito used…
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Dutch Jews heavily taxed after WW2
Dutch Jews who survived the Holocaust and returned to their homes after the Second World War were heavily taxed by the city counsels. This information was revealed as documents of the city counsel of Amsterdam were digitized, says the Dutch newspaper Het Parool. As most of the Dutch Jews were taken from their homes during…
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Adolf Hitler ‘not so bad’
That’s what nearly half of the population of Austria thinks nowadays. Hitler, Austrian by birth, took power in his home country on the 12th march in 1938. The incorporation of Austria into the German Reich is a much debated issue in Austrian history: was ‘the Anschluss’ a voluntary conjoinment, or was Austria violently annexed? In…