The glass famine
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How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi party members
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Thousands of historical reenactors have gathered in Grunwald, Poland, to commemorate the 616th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald (video)
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How a Swedish king went on strike in 1768 – this moment in political history poses an interesting question: does a monarchy need a monarch?
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Swedish fisherman digging for worms stumbles upon cache of silver coins, beads, rings and pendants dating to the 12th century
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Spanish Civil War animated
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How do you preserve a 400 year old Swedish warship? Vasamuseet in Stockholm is tackling the continued challenge of maintaing the 17th century Vasa.
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New search engine reveals if ancestors were in Nazi party
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Over 200 years after being sunk by the British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson, one of Denmark's most famous warships has been discovered at the bottom of Copenhagen Harbor
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[Steyr] AUG
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Tattooing in the American Civil War was a hedge against anonymous death
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The ten best and ten worst US foreign policy decisions
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In the 1930s a radical conservative faction almost pushed Finland into full authoritarianism
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A Norwegian rocket launched on 25th January 1995 to study the Northern Lights was mistaken by Russia for an incoming nuclear missile on a direct course to Moscow
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Letters from an American November 26, 2025 - The historical origin of the US Federal Thanksgiving holiday
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The Florentine Diamond resurfaces after 100 years in hiding. Legendary jewel of the Habsburgs not seen since 1919 and thought lost, has actually been safe in a Canadian bank for decades.
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Hermann and Albert Göring: Two very different brothers
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The almost forgotten Japanese-American truce at Aka
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This is not a ruined cottage | The Druridge Bay ruin
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The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
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How the Dutch deleted the sea... and got rich! | Map Men
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What it takes to be a revolutionary war enactor
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How America nearly forged a different path in 1916
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Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
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Russian Civil War, Winter 1917-1918
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Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?
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The long-term costs of war - the price of life, economics of casualties and Russia's war
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How arrogance destroys armies - overconfidence and the road to military failure
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Life and death aboard a B-17, 1944
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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was unsolved - until now
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The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League
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The deportation campaigns of the Great Depression
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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Why did the UK government nationalise this pub?
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How the US built 5,000 ships in World War II
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How the 'Shetland Bus' helped Norway resist Nazi Germany – innocent-looking fishing boats delivered valuable cargo and special agents
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In April 1945 the Swedish Red Cross launched the largest rescue operation of World War II – the mission, involving the now-iconic “White Buses”, ultimately saved 15,000 prisoners
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Did the United States almost support Nazi Germany in World War II? (No)
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On the Resistance in Belgium platform, anyone can research resistance activities in Belgium during World War II
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Why the island of Bornholm is Danish and not German, Swedish or Polish
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Roman-era battlefield mass grave discovered under Vienna football pitch
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New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
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Book review of Robert Ferguson's fascinating history of the experiences of the Norwegians during the five years of German occupation
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Popping the bag: What happens when a group, once powerful, is suppressed or disbanded? Where do its members go?
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Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war
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The president and the psychoanalyst: what Sigmund Freud saw in Woodrow Wilson
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Restitution project genealogists track down rightful heirs of Nazi-looted books
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How World War II was 'practiced' in Spain (1936-1939)
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How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris
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The lost towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline wars
17 votes