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Did Jews claim to be asians to Imperial Japan?
I came across the following anecdote from the Jewish Stack Exchange: http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/5940/jewish-community-in-china-around-ww2/5942
During the questions portion of the ...
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Did the USSR have better tanks than Germany in WW2?
Prompted by this question and a comment by matt_black. The T-34 is often cited as the best tank of WW2. However some articles paint a very different picture.
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Did the USSR have 21 thousand tanks at the beginning of WW2?
In the Icebreaker series by Viktor Suvorov, he says that at the beginning of World War 2, the Soviet Union had roughly 7 times as many tanks as Nazi Germany, which had 3000-4000 tanks.
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Did Allied forces use chemical weapons in Okinawa during World War II?
A Japanese friend of mine claimed that Allied forces used poisonous gas during the Battle of Okinawa. I asked for a link to such a claim, and got a link to this section of the Japanese language ...
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Is Nazi a diminutive of Ignatius?
The German Wikipedia page for Nazi claims that the word Nazi is a diminutive form of Ignatius (Ignatz). The cited source is etymonline.com:
The 24th edition of Etymologisches Wörterbuch der ...
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Were there ever any photos/pictures of Hitler's bunker published by Allied armies? [closed]
I was reading this website article which describes how a Life photographer had captured (photo numbers 2-6) the insides of Führerbunker and the place where Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun killed ...
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Did a nuclear blast devastate Port Chicago on July 17, 1944?
On July 17, 1944 at the Port Chicago naval base, near the San Francisco Bay area, an explosion of epic proportions occurred on a dock handling munitions.
The Evening Independent, Jul 18, 1944, via ...
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Were Hitler and the Nazis obsessed with the occult?
The claim that Hitler and the Nazis were obsessed with the occult is embedded in our pop culture now, and often repeated in documentaries as if it is an established fact. (At least in the kinds of ...
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Was Stalin planning to attack Germany?
I have read a couple of books by Viktor Suvorov, such as Icebreaker as a child where he presents a theory that before World War 2, Stalin was planning to attack the West via Germany, and/or had set ...
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Did Winston Churchill say that proof of alien spacecraft would threaten the Church?
I heard that the historical basis for the ongoing denial of UFO's by most world governments is because Winston Churchill said it would threaten the legitimacy of the church.
Did Winston Churchill ...
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Were 1200 black soldiers massacred at Camp Van Dorn in 1943?
In 1998 a book was published called The Slaughter: An American Atrocity by Carroll Case. It alleged that in June of 1943 at an Army base in Mississippi 1200 black soldiers were massacred by white ...
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Prior knowledge of Pearl Harbor
An oft repeated conspiracy theory asserts officials in the US military had prior knowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and allowed the attack to occur anyway. The conspiracy theorists point ...
