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‘Besatzungskinder’ are still searching their fathers

‘Besatzungskinder‘ where children in post-war Germany born from Allied soldiers who disappeared before their birth. An estimated 200.000 of these children were left behind...

30 October 2013 by Jan Huisman

Case closed on Katyn massacre

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has dismissed allegations made by relatives of the victims of the Katyn massacre in 1940...

21 October 2013 by Jan Huisman

Priebke’s body will be buried on a concealed location

Civilians are taken prisoner in Rome

Fighting over Priebke’s dead body A week of weird fighting over the corpse of Erich Priebke (1913-2013) has come to a conclusion...

20 October 2013 by Jan Huisman

The Nazi-past of Dr. Oetker

The former chief of Dr. Oetker, the food company famous for its pizza’s, was a nazi...

18 October 2013 by Jan Huisman

Black Hawk Down-incident (1993) revisited

On the 6th of October 1993 two American Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in Mogadishu, Somalia...

11 October 2013 by Jan Huisman

Tape recordings of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials online

The tape recordings of the Frankfurter Auschwitz Trials can now be heard on the website of the Fritz Bauer institute...

10 October 2013 by Jan Huisman

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...

13 September 2013 by Jan Huisman

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...

20 August 2013 by Jan Huisman

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...

31 March 2013 by Jan Huisman

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...

10 March 2013 by Jan Huisman
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