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- яр, Babiy yar) is a ravine in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, located ... The ravine was first noted in historical records during the early ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- Mordechai Anielewicz (1919 – May 8, 1943) was the commander of the ... In January 1943, the German troops tried to enter the ghetto to round ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 21:21, 9 November 2022
- The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German: Die Endlösung ... Mass killings of over one million Jews occurred before the plans of ...14 KB (2,250 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- (Friedrich Gustav Emil) Martin" The New Encyclopaedia Britannica ... and survived imprisonment due largely to the intervention of the Bishop ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 23:11, 15 May 2023
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- Cornelia Johanna Arnalda ten Boom, is known to the world as Corrie ... a Dutch Christian Holocaust survivor who helped an estimated 800 Jews ...21 KB (3,559 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
- Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- and propagandist, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, lent its name to the ... journalist writing anti-German propaganda during World War II. After experiencing ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- Sudeten German industrialist who saved his Jewish factory workers from death ... Today there are more than 7,000 descendants of the Schindler-Jews ...27 KB (4,326 words) - 04:39, 18 November 2022
- Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination ... The complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative ...26 KB (4,084 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square of ... with varying degrees of enforcement by the dominant social group. The ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, ... Allianz was the largest insurer in Germany when the Nazi party came ...22 KB (3,101 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- , Kishinyov) is the capital city, the industrial and commercial center ... Since the country gained its independence in 1991, Chişinău has ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה HaShoah ... (die "Endlösung der Judenfrage"). The commonly used figure ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized ... (of Scripture)," and is derived from the old Hebrew word for the Hebrew ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- The White Rose ( die Weiße Rose ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- a German religious leader and participant in the resistance movement against ... Bonhoeffer's writings, especially his book The Cost of Discipleship ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- , (August 16, 1913 - March 9, 1992) was head of the Zionist underground ... achievement as prime minister--and in the view of many, his singular ...40 KB (6,019 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- 20, 2003) was a French pre-war leader of the Young Right, philosopher, ... #039;s life, and he long remained one of the most mysterious figures of ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- international events, he became Director of the Swedish Boy Scouts (Sveriges ... After achieving a truce a truce in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he began ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- John Chrysostom (349– ca. 407 C.E.) was the archbishop of Constantinople ... The Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches honor him as a saint ...31 KB (4,708 words) - 04:44, 3 August 2022
- biblical examples exist, in some of which the God of the Israelites ordered ... Genocide has been deemed criminal by the United Nations, as well as ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the National Socialist regime ... Goebbels earned a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University in 1921, on the ...35 KB (5,510 words) - 00:39, 11 August 2022
- Nazi human experimentation, in the context of this article, refers ... The Nazi human experiments included such atrocities as amputation ...58 KB (8,390 words) - 00:12, 25 October 2021
- 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 ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- The Anschluss Until the German spelling reform of 1996, Anschluss was ... (German: connection, or political union), also known as the Anschluss ...45 KB (6,819 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- The German Resistance refers to those individuals and groups in Nazi ... The term German Resistance should not be understood as meaning that ...78 KB (12,369 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- military leader and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Among many offices ... Goering was one of the central figures in the Nazi regime that was ...51 KB (7,918 words) - 14:29, 12 February 2022
- 2004) was a Polish poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. A well-known critic of the Polish Communist government, Milosz was ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- Nederland is the European section of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... Amsterdam is the capital city (hoofdstad), and The Hague (Dutch: Den ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great ... Most Armenians, Russians, and West Europeans believe that the massacres ...48 KB (7,401 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- 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 ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- a population of over five million, bordering the Czech Republic and Austria ... The eight hundred years of Hungarian oppression was openly confronted ...34 KB (4,817 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- philosopher and religious mystic. Although Jewish by birth, she was initially ... February 3, 1909 to an agnostic family of Jewish origin. Her father was a ...23 KB (3,797 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- Fasting refers to the act of willingly abstaining from the consumption ... a part of human custom since pre-history. The practice is mentioned in the ...36 KB (5,745 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( "Протоколы сионских ... forgery that purports to describe a Jewish plot to achieve world domination. ...66 KB (9,730 words) - 23:42, 22 October 2023
- The Munich massacre occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich ... By the end of the ordeal, the terrorist group had killed 11 Israeli ...51 KB (8,065 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German ... in World War I in which many people resented the humiliating terms imposed ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- 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 ...65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
- The Iran-Iraq War, also called the First Persian Gulf War, or the ... The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, following ...36 KB (5,506 words) - 17:42, 29 January 2024
- Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich—officially called Deutsches Reich ... is the literal translation of empire)—refers to Germany in the years ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- Europe. He was elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). First ... dominate Europe's future, and thought the best strategy to avoid this ...37 KB (5,492 words) - 09:38, 11 April 2024
- Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn, Filisṭīn) is one of several names for ... Different geographic definitions of Palestine have been used over ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an international religious organization ... The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is derived from a number ...37 KB (5,392 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) was ... a crippling illness to place himself at the head of the forces of reform ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- print and broadcast) or online social media. The term Fake news is a neologism ... officials and institutions accountable to the public. The proliferation ...44 KB (6,310 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- (and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical ... Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... The first Polish state was baptized in 966, an event that coincided ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- The American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) was a biblically based ... The founding fathers of the United States had written of humanity ...74 KB (11,453 words) - 06:02, 16 June 2023
- Silesia is a historical region in east–central Europe spanning the ... Slavs arrived in the area around the sixth century and founded Great ...32 KB (4,656 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and ... Like other German authors, already in their prime during the rise ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
- Θεσσαλονίκη [θesaloˈnici]), is the second-largest city in Greece ... ), literally "the co-capital", url=https://books.google.com/books ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
- was an American-born chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion. as a chess prodigy. In 1972, he became the first, and so far the only ...53 KB (7,890 words) - 08:45, 16 November 2023
- North Macedonia (before 2019, Macedonia), officially the Republic ... The lands governed by the republic were the southernmost part of the ...50 KB (7,230 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- , Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands ... ), which is currently regarded as the earliest recorded civilization ...64 KB (9,298 words) - 20:14, 29 April 2024
- Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... The Republic of Serbia comprises Serbia proper and two autonomous ...67 KB (9,913 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...107 KB (15,967 words) - 21:14, 9 February 2024
- and conductor. Mahler was best known during his own lifetime as one of ... in two genres: symphony and song. Besides the nine completed numbered symphonies ...43 KB (6,581 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2023
- ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...90 KB (13,119 words) - 17:56, 22 August 2023
- The Birmingham campaign, or Birmingham movement, was a movement organized ... James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others, the campaign of nonviolent direct ...60 KB (8,930 words) - 17:58, 31 October 2023
- Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... The region was once inhabited by the ancient Thracians, and was later ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
