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professor, and author. He survived the horror of Nazi imprisonment ... his students, brought invaluable insights to the scholarly world, and is remembered ...

Kampf, Adolf Hitler detailed his belief that the German people needed Lebensraum ... The idea of a Germanic people without sufficient space dates back ...

Latvia (historically Lattonia, Lettonia, or Lettland), officially ... a resolution on the "Occupation of the Baltic States," in which ...

Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...

Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... Occupied by both Germany and the Soviet Union, Lithuania lost over ...

Estonia (older English spelling Esthonia), officially the Republic ... was dominated by foreign powers through much of its history. The past eight ...

The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed ... The results for Eastern Europe were disastrous as they were held hostage ...

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, named after Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...

The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...

The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... The Second World War's opposing alliances pitted strong democracies ...

influence on German and European history. The last capital of Prussia was ... whether Austria or Prussia would dominate the new polity. Had Austria done ...

The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...

artist. He is well known for a number of witty and amusing images. Surrealism ... Magritte was born in Lessines, Belgium, in 1898, the eldest son of ...

The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated ... Few contemporary Muslim accounts exist of the crusades, which were ...

The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... Denmark borders the Baltic Sea on the southeast and the North Sea ...

West Germany (in German Westdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...

is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve ... Swimming is consistently among the top public recreational activities ...

The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe ... Finland consistently ranks high on a number of international analysis ...

23, 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police ... Beria is now remembered chiefly as the executor of the final stages ...

in Eastern Europe that borders Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...

The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ... Negotiations between the allied powers started on May 7, the anniversary ...

The swastika (from Sanskrit: svástika sa|स्वस्तिक form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. The swastika can also be drawn ...

Jews or Ashkenazim, are Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities ... Eastern Europe, and elsewhere between the tenth and nineteenth centuries ...

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... The first Polish state was baptized in 966, an event that coincided ...

At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...

Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich—officially called Deutsches Reich ... is the literal translation of empire)—refers to Germany in the years ...

Guerrilla warfare (also spelled guerilla) is a method of combat by ... While some efforts on the part of guerrilla forces can be understood ...

World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...

A prisoner of war (POW) is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy ... In the history of war (which covers basically all of human history ...

The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...

April 28, 1889 – July 27, 1970), served as the Prime Minister and de facto ... Franco, some regard him as champion of traditional values, including ...

Gulag (ГУЛАГ) is an acronym used to describe the system of prison ... The Gulag system was officially disbanded in 1960. Memoirs of prisoners ...

Copenhagen, the capital and largest city of Denmark, is located on ... Originally a Viking fishing village known as "Havn," in ...

The Polish-Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was an armed ... By 1919, the Polish forces had taken control of much of Western Ukraine ...

Polish statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918–1922) and dictator ... Jerzy Jan Lerski. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. (Greenwood ...

The British Empire is the most extensive empire in world history and ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...

) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet ... The operational goal of Barbarossa was the rapid conquest of the European ...

von Braun (March 23, 1912 - June 16, 1977) was one of the leading ... Wernher von Braun was born in Wirsitz, Province of Posen, in the German ...

The First Chechen War also known as the War in Chechnya was fought ... and religious clash. Some Chechens, the majority of whom are Muslim ...

Silesia is a historical region in east–central Europe spanning the ... Slavs arrived in the area around the sixth century and founded Great ...

Amsterdam, located in the south of the province North Holland in the ... The 1960s and 1970s saw a cultural revolution, with Amsterdam at the ...

novelist, and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of ... itself not in his literary style, but in the themes of his stories, which ...

Josef Stalin, consolidated power to become the absolute ruler of the Soviet ... Stalin was responsible transforming the Soviet Union from an agricultural ...

Berlin is the capital city and one of the 16 states of the Federal ... Berlin was successively the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701 ...

The Chechen Republic or, informally, Chechnya, (sometimes referred ... In November 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chechnya ...

journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen ... It is for his series of articles published in June 1931 covering Stalin ...

The Russian Federation (Росси́йская Федера́ция ... The largest country in the world by land area, Russia has the world ...

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in ... France and Prussia, which was backed by the North German Confederation ...

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...

Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... Partly, decolonization was overseen by the United Nations, with UN ...

The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet ... Near the end of World War II, German forces were driven from Poland ...

), also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served ... Witte served under the last two emperors of Russia, Alexander III ...

The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... Later, however, when other Ottoman provinces in the Balkans began ...

The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe ...

Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a coastal Alpine ... Slovenia has been part of the Roman Empire, the Duchy of Karantania ...

(and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical ... Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by ...

The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה HaShoah ... (die "Endlösung der Judenfrage"). The commonly used figure ...

The French Revolutionary Wars ( Guerres de la Révolution française ) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until ...

The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord was the Allied ... Normandy on D-Day itself came from Canada, the United Kingdom and the United ...

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Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... in World War I in which many people resented the humiliating terms imposed ...

There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...