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Online Resources for Historians 6 RZM Feb 2012 Mar 2018 8 47124
Welcome to the DU World History Group! 0 RZM Feb 2012 Dec 2011 3 57206
Archaeologists discover wreck of Danish warship sunk by Nelson 225 years ago 2 muriel_volestrangler Thursday Thursday 10 426
🇬🇧 The Battle of Cable St, London 1936: Brit Fascist Blackshirt March Halted By Antifascist Demonstrators 5 appalachiablue Mar 18 Wednesday 9 534
WW2: Fascist Lord Haw-Haw Tried For Treason, Nazi Propaganda Radio Host 'Germany Calling': BBC 1 appalachiablue Mar 23 Mar 23 5 454
Hitler Bribed His Generals - Secret Fund Bought Military Loyalty 1 bucolic_frolic Mar 22 Mar 22 9 454
Operation Clockwork Orange - Secret Military Coup Against British Prime Minister 1 bucolic_frolic Mar 19 Mar 19 3 558
How Every Country Got Nuclear Weapons Explained 0 Uncle Joe Mar 16 Mar 16 4 447
The muqarnas of the Shah Mosque and Fatima Masumeh Shrine, Iran 2 littlemissmartypants Mar 11 Mar 12 4 516
On March 9, 1776, Adam Smith's "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" was published. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 8 Mar 8 5 470
Jean Widmer, Designer of Celebrated French Graphics, Dies at 96 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 27 Feb 27 5 534
How The Fridge Destroyed One of the World's Largest Monopolies 2 Uncle Joe Feb 7 Feb 7 10 976
WW2 Era Letter Written by a Prisoner of The Dachau Concentration Camp To Family, 1940. Details in comments. 1 irisblue Feb 7 Feb 7 8 668
Himmler's Fourth Reich - SS Assets Saved in Global Conspiracy 2 bucolic_frolic Jan 27 Feb 5 3 770
The Fake Coal That Destroyed 1,000 German Trains WWII's Most Ingenious Sabotage Weapon 4 Ptah Jan 19 Feb 5 19 1057
I stated wondering how European POWS were fedin the Us 3 irisblue Jan 30 Jan 30 0 671
Hitler Bribed His Generals - Secret Fund Bought Military Loyalty 4 bucolic_frolic Jan 30 Jan 30 5 767
The 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front entered Auschwitz in occupied Poland, today. 1 irisblue Jan 27 Jan 27 3 983
Recalling being raised into racism through Boy Scouting. 4 NNadir Jan 26 Jan 26 8 1233
Mystery: Who Brought Beans to the Lenape and Mahicans in the 1300s? 6 GreatGazoo Jan 22 Jan 23 11 965
A century in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot 3 erronis Jan 22 Jan 23 13 1105
Heather Cox Richardson: The Schnee Eifel Pocket The Battle of the Bulge Journey to American Democracy 0 marmar Jan 19 Jan 19 5 711
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime's Nuclear Program 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 16 Jan 16 6 662
On this day, January 16, 1862, 204 men and children died in the Hartley Colliery disaster. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 16 Jan 16 3 580
British redcoat's lost memoir reveals harsh realities of life as a disabled veteran 0 erronis Jan 14 Jan 14 6 744
"Hamnet" and the History of History 0 GreatGazoo Jan 13 Jan 13 2 738
On this day, January 10, 1954, BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet, exploded and fell into the Tyrrhenian Sea. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 10 Jan 10 0 686
Roman Polanski On Escaping The Jewish Ghetto In World War II The Dick Cavett Show 0 marble falls Jan 8 Jan 8 1 775
Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's Stepsister and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 96 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 5 Jan 5 7 635
On this day in 1919 - German Workers Party founded in Munich 0 irisblue Jan 4 Jan 4 2 667

World History Continued...

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Alice in Wonderland, the Boer War, Racism, and British Imperialism and Empire. 3 NNadir Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 948
On this day January 3, 2003, Greta Thunberg was born. 2 spike jones Jan 2026 Jan 2026 6 700
NUTS! Gen. Anthony McAuliffe Refused To Surrender, The Bulge, Bastogne, Belgium, Dec.1944 0 appalachiablue Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 655
Charles Dickens' London Home, Christmas Tour - Literary Giant, Victorian Era Social Critic 📚 5 appalachiablue Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 968
Immigrants arriving in the US through Ellis Island from 1906 to 1914 5 irisblue Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 984
Images from the first days of the Battle of the Bulge, 16 December 1944 16 irisblue Dec 2025 Dec 2025 24 2030
American troops captured by the Nazis in the Ardennes in Dec 1944 3 irisblue Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 1099
Glen Miller disappeared over the English Channel today 15 December 1944. 3 irisblue Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 906
So I just finished (finally) Jackson's book "France on Trial" and am moving to Elkins "A Legacy of Violence." 2 NNadir Dec 2025 Dec 2025 4 1017
Celebrated Rutland mosaic depicts 'long-lost' Troy story connecting Roman Britain to the ancient classical world 2 erronis Dec 2025 Dec 2025 3 918
On December 2 and 3, 1984, the Bhopal disaster occurred. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 6 832
On this day, November 30, 1945, U-boat commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck was shot for killing the survivors of a sunk target. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Dec 2025 17 1328
Poland Oak Tree, 650 Yrs Old, Believed to Have Hidden 2 Jewish Brothers in Trunk, WW2 Nazi Occup. 4 appalachiablue Nov 2025 Nov 2025 23 1494
Surviving Sobibor: How I Escaped The Massacre of 1269 Children. The Holocaust ⚡ 0 appalachiablue Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 943
My grandparents' war. PBS 5 elleng Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 1241
Holocaust Hero Sir Nicholas Winton Rescued 669 Children in Czechoslovakia from Nazis, Eve of WWII, Kindertransport 2 appalachiablue Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 983
Benjamin Ferencz 'Last Surviving Prosecutor WW2 Nuremberg Trials' War Crimes - US Lawyer, WW2 Veteran, DDay, The Bulge 2 appalachiablue Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 1061
History being made at a urinal. 6 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 1532
A man sits before a pit of the dead. Nazi soldiers surround him--one aims a gun at his head. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 12 1467
Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking empire 60 Minutes Australia 1 Uncle Joe Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 1003
A empire is a machine powered by blood. 0 Eko Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 931
On October 29, 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX crashed after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 824
King Charles II Was Hiding a Nightmare Within 6 bucolic_frolic Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 1794
Nicolae Ceausescu 25 December 1989 8 struggle4progress Oct 2025 Oct 2025 22 1724
'THE NINE': WW2 Women in the Resistance Survived Ravensbruck Concent Camp, Escaped Nazi Death March 1 appalachiablue Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 1160
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran Thomas James in rare 1821 painting 3 eShirl Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 1241
The Oldest Head of State Ever Was Tried for Treason, Convicted, and Sentenced to Death. 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 1266
Germans Couldn't Understand How American VT Fuzes Destroyed 82% Of Their V-1s In One Day 3 bucolic_frolic Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 1302
Read what a Chinese officer wrote of D-Day in his diary salvaged in Hong Kong 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 1158
On October 15, 1887, Frederick Fleet was born. At 11:39 p.m. on April 14, 1912, he sighted an iceberg. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 914

World History Continued...

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The Sobibor Uprising 0 struggle4progress Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 1064
The uprising at Babi Yar 0 struggle4progress Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 1037
The 1943 Warsaw uprising 2 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2908
Underwater Drone Flown Towards Bismarck Wreck To Identify How It Sunk 1 TheBlackAdder Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1791
On September 26, 1905, Einstein published the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, on the special theory of relativity. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1288
"This Is The Only Known Viking Settlement In North America" (Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries) 1 eShirl Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 3735
On September 15, 1935, the Nurnberg Laws were passed in Germany. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 2598
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire: Newest Book in My Personal Library. 1 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1408
September 1933, Germany: The new Nazi government arrests tens of thousands of homeless citizens and disappears them. 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2025 Sep 2025 18 3207
Tiananmen Square 1989 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 1528
1976 Soweto Uprising 0 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1488
Sharpeville Massacre 1960 0 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 1 1569
The funeral of Erwin Rommel 2 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 4071
Beria vs. Malenkov: A Fatal Betrayal in the Struggle for Power 1 struggle4progress Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1434
Opinion: Princeton Must Retire the Attaturk Professorship. 1 NNadir Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1580
Catalhoyuk excavations uncover "House of the Dead" 1 ZDU Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1236
1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Danzig Poland 2 irisblue Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 1368
For my birthday, my wife has agreed to set me free in a good bookstore to buy three books. 6 NNadir Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 1720
Benjamin Netanyahu on Iraq War 2002 2 Uncle Joe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1707
Paris was liberated on this date, 25 August 1944 4 irisblue Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 2238
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