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Did a million Germans die after World War 2 in "Eisenhower's death camps"?
Most likely, no: that number is not correct.
The article that you link to appears to be a re-published 1989 article by Canadian writer James Bacque. In the book Other Losses published in the same year,...
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Was plastic from a seaplane shot down in 1944 recently found in an albatross stomach?
There are earlier sources and more information about this story.
The 23 April 2006 Pacific Northwest Sunday Magazine published by the Seattle Times says:
Take a piece of plastic marked "VP-101&...
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Did the Joint Intelligence Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff claim the USSR would convince all Japanese?
The quote appears in some other papers like this 1991 one by Alperovitz & Messer with reference to the primary sources, which however are almost certainly not online:
Aside from the fact that it ...
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Was plastic from a seaplane shot down in 1944 recently found in an albatross stomach?
According to Wikipedia Bakelite has a density of 1.3 g/cm3 so it would rapidly sink in water. It cannot have been floating in the ocean for 50 years.
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Did Hiroshima change the layout of its streets subsequent to the war?
An overhead photomosaic of Hiroshima pre-bombing can be found here (U.S. National Archives, NAID 540225).
Comparing that to a present-day map of the city (Bing Maps link), it's clear that the answer ...
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