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... that an illegal Jewish organization in an Axis puppet state proposed an ambitious scheme to bribe Heinrich Himmler into halting the systematic extermination of European Jews?
... that the Russian Liberation Army defected for the second time when it turned against Nazi Germany in the Prague uprising on 6 May 1945?
... that Robert Einstein, a cousin of Nobel Prize Laureate Albert Einstein, committed suicide less than a year after his family was murdered by German soldiers in World War II?
... that minoritized languages are languages targeted for extermination, even when spoken by a majority of the population?
... that Tosia Altman's blonde hair and fluency in Polish enabled her to pass as a gentile and travel between Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland to organize armed resistance to the Holocaust?
... that The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland was the first official document to inform the Western Allies about the Holocaust?
... that in most of the killings of the Bangladesh Drug War the victims were shot at night, and weapons and drugs were found near the bodies?

... that despite homosexuality being punishable by death, Iranian LGBT activists celebrate IranPride Day (logo pictured) by secretly photographing themselves holding rainbow flags in Tehran?
... that Fredy Hirsch saved the lives of children at Auschwitz by impressing SS guards, even though he was Jewish and openly gay?
... that a Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp escaped disguised as an SS guard along with an SS-Rottenführer?
... that German soldiers and their Italian allies committed more than 5,000 war crimes in Italy during World War II?
... that despite the Democratic Republic of the Congo's $24 trillion in mineral reserves, more than 80% of its residents live in extreme poverty?

... that Nordhausen concentration camp (survivors pictured), where more than a thousand corpses were found, was described as "the most horrifying example of Nazi terrorism imaginable"?
... that Adivasi-organized protests in Plachimada, Kerala succeeded in removing a Coca-Cola factory that was polluting the groundwater?
... that the Scottish Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean asked Douglas Young to destroy some of the poems in Dàin do Eimhir, now regarded as MacLean's masterpiece?
... that Wilma Mankiller faced sexism during her campaign for Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation, despite Cherokee society being traditionally matrilineal?

... that children from the Białystok Ghetto (pictured) panicked when told to undress and shower upon arriving at the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt, because they knew about gas chambers?
... that East Sutherland Gaelic has just one remaining native speaker?
... that the leader of the Caiazzo massacre on 13 October 1943 eluded arrest for nearly 50 years because authorities were searching for him under the wrong name?
... that Don Raimondo Viale was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations for assisting Jews who had escaped from the Borgo San Dalmazzo concentration camp?
... that Pope Pius XII did not condemn the roundup and deportation of more than a thousand Jews "under his very windows" 75 years ago today?
... that the Padule di Fucecchio massacre, in which at least 174 Italian civilians were murdered, has been described as "one of the worst Nazi atrocities in Italy"?
... that Heinrich Himmler may have given permission for the Red Cross to visit the family camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, just a few hundred meters from the gas chambers?

... that this photograph (pictured) was taken to glorify the SS men who suppressed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but helped convict them of murder?
... that most Germans who committed war crimes in Italy during World War II never faced justice?
... that because the court described him as a "simpleton", Stefan Baretzki's admission that he knew the Holocaust was a crime was used to convict other defendants at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials?
... that Maurice Rossel's report on Theresienstadt concentration camp has been described as emblematic of the failure of the Red Cross during the Holocaust?

... that a famous photograph shows Małka Zdrojewicz (pictured), who smuggled weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto inside her boots?
... that despite opposition from within his resistance group, Andrej Steiner orchestrated the arrest of Jewish collaborator Karol Hochberg?
... that 694 Italians have been recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust in Italy?
... that Leo Holzer led a resistance group inside Theresienstadt concentration camp?
... that Slovak fascists and anti-fascists joined forces to intimidate returning Holocaust survivors, culminating in the Topoľčany pogrom?
... that Peter Bielik was nominated for director of the National Memory Institute, despite having blamed Jewish Holocaust survivors for the 1945 Topoľčany pogrom?
... that dozens of Nazi concentration camps were staffed by guards from the Luftwaffe?
... that the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS were thought to have committed war crimes against Italians during World War II in retaliation for Italy's surrender?

... that a right-wing West German newspaper claimed that an iconic Holocaust photograph (pictured) depicting the murder of Jews in Ivanhorod, Ukraine, was a Communist forgery?
.. that Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS veterans formed a 40,000-strong secret army in West Germany in 1949?
... that Anton Schmid was one of only three German soldiers executed for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust?
... that Armin Frieder, the leading Neolog rabbi in Slovakia, was arrested for his participation in an illegal smuggling ring?
... that Karel František Koch was blamed by some Jews for the death of the chief rabbi of Slovakia, despite his having rescued Jews during the Holocaust?
... that Angus Barbieri fasted for more than a year, losing 276 pounds (125 kg) and setting a world record?
... that an antisemitic and antiziganistic statement had to be censored from a Slovak documentary about a post-Holocaust pogrom?
... that two Nazi propaganda films were made in Theresienstadt concentration camp?
... that President Donald Trump's comment that "it's a very scary time for young men in America" inspired a viral protest song?
... that Slovak paramilitary groups that collaborated with Nazi Germany participated in the two largest massacres in Slovakia during World War II?
... that along with murdering or deporting thousands of Jews and Romani people, Einsatzgruppe H targeted German soldiers suspected of defeatism and homosexuality?
... that the editors of the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos found that the Nazis and their allies had imprisoned and murdered people at 42,500 locations, far more than previously thought?
... that prior to a Red Cross inspection of Theresienstadt ghetto, a "beautification" program there included the transfer of 7,500 prisoners to Auschwitz?
... that the Slovak Jewish Center, set up by the Nazis, was taken over by a resistance group?
... that President Jozef Tiso argued in a 1942 speech that Slovakia's complicity in the Holocaust was consistent with Christian morality?
... that Jewish community leader Tibor Kováč negotiated with and bribed a former classmate who was organizing the deportation of Jews from Slovakia during the Holocaust?
... that the Irish Occupied Territories Bill would make doing business with Israeli settlers punishable by five years' imprisonment?
... that Scottish poet Sorley MacLean once called upon the Red Army to invade his homeland?
... that the Northern Ireland Assembly has not sat for more than two years, partly because of disagreements over an Irish Language Act?
... that Edite Estrela MEP received 80,000 emails in opposition to a nonbinding European Union resolution in favor of sex education and other reproductive rights?
... that Irish republican O'Donovan Rossa claimed that the phrase "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity" was typically used as an excuse for inaction?
... that Unhappy the Land argues that the Irish are not the "most oppressed people ever"?

... that the election of Zuzana Čaputová (pictured), the Progressive Slovakia candidate in the 2019 presidential race, was hailed by international media as a victory of liberalism over populism?
... that in a 1967 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the deportation of an alien for being homosexual?
... that the Land League's "rival government" surpassed the power of the British government in many parts of Ireland during the late 19th century?
... that concentration of land ownership has been linked to deforestation in 48 developing countries?
... that Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to Chief of the Armed Forces High Command because of his craven willingness to function as Adolf Hitler's mouthpiece?
... that the Famine Inquiry Commission has been criticized by scholars and Indian nationalists for exonerating the British government of responsibility for the 1943 Bengal famine?
... that the sermons of Greek Catholic priest Michal Mašlej inspired the villagers of Oľšavica to hide Jews during the Holocaust even though German soldiers were quartered in the village?
... that nearly half of paramilitary punishment attacks in Northern Ireland have occurred since the official end of the conflict?
... that the Slovak periodical Nástup blamed Jews for both communism and "immoral capitalism"?
... that Hugh Orde, the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, has been criticized for using the phrase "acceptable level of violence"?
... that Gates of Tears is the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust in the Lublin District of Poland?
... that the Czech-language fascist newspaper Arijský boj ('Aryan Struggle') claimed that the daughter of a former president kept a lesbian harem and lusted after Jewish men?
... that in order to bypass political changes demanded by Germany at the 1940 Salzburg Conference, Slovakia adopted the Führer principle?
... that the Dęblin–Irena forced-labor camp was one of the last forced-labor camps for Jews in the Lublin District?
... that the International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine will investigate alleged war crimes by Israel, Hamas, and Palestinian armed groups?
... that many survivors of the Holocaust in the Sudetenland lost their Czechoslovak citizenship after the war because they were deemed to be "Germans"?
... that only a few hundred Jews survived out of the more than 57,000 who were deported from Slovakia in 1942?
... that five days after evacuating Blechhammer concentration camp in January 1945, German soldiers returned to murder prisoners who had been unable to leave?
... that the life expectancy at Gusen concentration camp was as short as six months?

... that Leitmeritz concentration camp (memorial pictured) was not liberated, but dissolved by the German Instrument of Surrender?
... that according to The Independent, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps "renders the unimaginable evil of the camps relatable"?
... that from 1938, the Slovak People's Party denounced Czechs as "enemies and pests" of the nation?
... that Irish republican activist Michael Davitt hated the British empire, but actually liked English people?
... that the systematic deportation of Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp began on 26 March 1942, with a transport of 997 women and girls from Poprad, Slovakia?
... that Operation Harvest Festival was the largest single massacre by German forces during the Holocaust?
... that Czechoslovak Communist politician Václav Kopecký "distinguished himself with antisemitic diatribes" and stage-managed an antisemitic show trial?
... that the CIA recruited Lithuanian Nazi collaborator Aleksandras Lileikis in 1952, even though he was suspected of complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust?
... that Slovak dissident Ján Mlynárik was hunted down by the Communist authorities for criticizing the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia?
... that the 1938 deportation of Jews from Slovakia was justified by blaming them for a recent territorial concession to Hungary?
... that the Slovak authorities suspended restitution to Holocaust survivors after the Partisan Congress riots, as many partisans were unhappy at returning property to its original Jewish owners?
... that the 1957–1958 influenza pandemic killed at least one million people worldwide?
... that the book The Pink Swastika has been described as a product of American culture wars?
... that in some situations, saying "please" may yield worse outcomes?
... that the Northern Ireland subsidy is greater than the United Kingdom's annual net expenditure on the European Union before Brexit?
... that the Slovak periodical Svedectvo (Testimony) receives a government subsidy, despite having published apologist articles defending convicted war criminals?
... that some countries charge visitors a departure tax?
... that many post-World War II anti-Jewish attacks in Slovakia were committed by former anti-Nazi partisans?

... that U.S. presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Obama vowed "never again" (memorial pictured), but genocide took place during each of their presidencies?
... that the rough sex murder defense asserts that a victim died accidentally during consensual sex?
... that gays and lesbians began using the pink triangle in the 1970s to counter "the vicious, influential myth" of a connection between Nazism and homosexuality?
... that Jeffrey Herf found that East Germany delivered 750,000 Kalashnikov rifles to countries and militants as part of what he calls "undeclared wars with Israel"?
... that 414 Tank Battalion, a mixed Dutch-German military unit, has been described as a step towards a European army?
... that Hong Kong protestors have drawn analogies between Nazi Germany and China?
... that London subsidized the rest of the UK by £38.6 billion in the 2016–17 fiscal year?
... that American scholar of genocide Gregory Gordon believes that ordering war crimes or crimes against humanity should be criminalized, even if mass killing has not taken place?
... that the Welsh fiscal deficit was higher than Greece's throughout the Greek government-debt crisis?
... that during the Paris Peace Conference, Czechoslovak politicians claimed that their country was tolerant, even as anti-Jewish violence was ongoing?
... that some types of incitement to terrorism are constitutionally protected in the United States?
... that Susan Benesch, founder of the Dangerous Speech Project, advocates the use of "counterspeech" and humor against hate speech?
... that Ján Vojtaššák, deputy chairman of the Slovak parliament when it approved the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, is being considered for beatification?
... that in A World Without Jews, Alon Confino argues that "the messianic struggle to create a Nazi civilization depended on the extermination of the Jews"?
... that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has been described as incitement to genocide?
... that Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East argues that Nazism and Islamism are similar, especially in their extreme antisemitism?
... that business leaders tried to ban the Depression anthem "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" for being "a dangerous attack on the American economic system"?
... that Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin claimed that he had prevented another Holocaust by bombing an Iraqi nuclear reactor?
... that in a January 1939 speech, Hitler predicted "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe"?
... that in a new book, Wolf Gruner argues that the collaborationist Czech government played a significant role in the persecution of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia?
... that the Russian vigilante group Occupy Pedophilia filmed more than a hundred anti-gay attacks between 2012 and 2014?
... that the myth of Czechoslovakia as "a welcoming and tolerant place for Jews" was exploited by Czechoslovak politicians?
... that after World War II, German industrialists who used forced labor claimed to be victims and opponents of Nazism?
... that Monika Rice's "What! Still Alive?!" has been described as a "disturbing narrative of violence, hostility, and indifference" towards Holocaust survivors in Poland?

... that Jarosław Kaczyński, an adviser to the prime minister of Poland, claimed that equality marches (example pictured) are "a real threat to ... the Polish state"?
... that a business-firm party is a political party created and run by one person to further their own interests?
... that a stab-in-the-back myth asserts that American media or civilians were responsible for the United States' failure in the Vietnam War?
... that the verse "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" was left out of the slave bible due to fears that it could incite rebellion?
... that death squad commander Otto Ohlendorf claimed that the extermination of 90,000 Jewish men, women, and children was a justified act of self-defense?
... that according to Nazi propaganda, the Jews started World War II?
... that the anti-gender movement claimed that the proposed 2016 Colombian peace agreement was "an instrument to impose gender ideology"?
... that a 2020 study found that African countries which allowed foreign funding of NGOs had a higher voter turnout?
... that the Polish activist Bartosz Staszewski created a series of photographs of LGBT people who live in "LGBT-free zones"?
... that the book Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism has been described as a "bleak account of the West's slide toward tyranny"?
... that The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus was described as a "giant step forward for the field of working class intellectual history"?
... that in September 2019, far-right politician Milan Mazurek became the first Slovak parliamentarian to lose his seat due to a crime after comparing Romani children to "animals in the zoo"?
... that according to the Hebrew Bible, a perjurer should receive the same punishment he sought to inflict on the falsely accused?
... that conventional religion is positively correlated with authoritarianism?
... that the European Commission of Human Rights found in 1969 that the Greek junta systematically tortured dissidents, leading to Greece's exit from the Council of Europe?
... that historian Jeffrey Kimball argued that the Vietnam War "was waged as much against Saigon as it was against the [Viet Cong / North Vietnamese] enemy"?
... that a historical theory argues that Nixon sought a decent interval between American withdrawal and South Vietnamese collapse to avoid becoming the first president to lose a war?
... that after the Greek Civil War, 20,000 leftists were exiled to the island of Gyaros, dubbed the "Dachau of the Mediterranean"?
... that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that burqa bans may be "necessary in a democratic society"?
... that Greece is the only state to have left the Council of Europe?
... that according to the superseded Catholic doctrine that "error has no rights", non-Catholics did not deserve civil or political rights?
... that 130 historians protested the Institute of National Remembrance's removal of Adam Puławski from his position researching Polish–Jewish relations during World War II?
... that a law blog has been cited by the supreme courts of Poland and of Germany?
... that Saint Augustine believed that lying is un-Christian even when done to save a life?
... that 47 people, including bystanders and an amateur reporter, were arrested in Warsaw at a protest against the detention of LGBT activist Margot in August 2020?
... that in Poland, hanging a rainbow flag on a statue may be a crime?
... that Augustine's views of Christian theology were developed in opposition to Pelagianism, which he declared a heresy?

"We have only one goal ... Victory at all costs!" (29 April 1942)

... that hundreds of academics signed a letter opposing the "coordinated harassment campaign by the Polish ruling party" against law professor Wojciech Sadurski?
... that a 2019 book argues that the Armenian Genocide was part of a larger genocide which targeted all of the Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire?
... that the mayors of Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Budapest signed the Pact of Free Cities in December 2019?
... that Parole der Woche (Slogan of the Week; example pictured) has been described as "the most ubiquitous and intrusive aspect of Nazism’s visual offensive"?
... that the Polish Kresy myth has been compared to the American myth of the Wild West and the German nostalgia for East Prussia?

Tourist taking a picture at the Berlin Holocaust memorial

... that Rhian Sugden, Priyanka Chopra, and Pete Buttigieg have all been the subject of controversy due to social-media photographs taken at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (pictured)?
... that Anna Hájková says her research into LGBT people and the Holocaust "shows a more complex, more human, and more real society beyond monsters and saints"?
... that the Polish public-television film Invasion "depicted LGBT rights activists as a foreign-backed threat to Polish children, religion, values, and the very biological continuation of the nation"?
... that the British conspiracy-theory and Holocaust-denial group Keep Talking unites the far right and far left?
... that the Israeli Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law was intended to punish Holocaust survivors rather than Holocaust perpetrators?

Talaat Pasha's tomb at the Monument of Liberty, Istanbul

... that the architect of the Armenian genocide, Talaat Pasha, is buried under a monument (pictured) dedicated to "heroes of the fatherland"?
... that at least 90 percent of intermarried spouses in Nazi Germany and Austria refused to divorce Jewish partners despite intimidation by the Gestapo?
... that due to the living instrument doctrine, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that "it is no longer considered to be necessary or appropriate" to criminalize homosexuality?
... that Nazi officials took advantage of national indifference to sign more people up to the Volksliste?
... that the Bundestag apologized in 2016 for Imperial Germany's "inglorious role" in the Armenian Genocide?
... that in 1941, a group of isolationist U.S. senators conducted an investigation into alleged "war propaganda" in Hollywood films?
... that FactCheckArmenia.com falsely claimed that "no Armenians were harmed" during the deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915?
... that in Justifying Genocide, Stefan Ihrig argues that many 1920s German nationalists viewed genocide as the "cost of doing political and military business in the twentieth century"?
... that the right to truth has been recognized by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, and the United Nations?
... that In Praise of Forgetting makes the case against collective memory: "whereas forgetting does an injustice to the past, remembering does an injustice to the present"?
... that scholars have speculated that failure to punish the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide contributed to the Holocaust?
... that a stereotypical True Pole is a Roman Catholic?
... that according to historian Stefan Ihrig, the Nazis sought to emulate Turkey, which they viewed as a "postgenocidal paradise"?
... that Esat Uras, a major perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide, later wrote "the ur-text of Turkish denialist 'scholarship'"?
... that Turkey threatened that Jewish lives would be put in danger if the 1982 International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, which covered the Armenian Genocide, was not cancelled?
... that memorial director Jens-Christian Wagner blames Alternative for Germany for the increase in heckling at former Nazi concentration camps in recent years?
... that the book In Praise of Blood was described as "an immediate, destabilizing influence on the world of orthodox Rwandan scholarship"?
... that in Denial of Violence, Fatma Müge Göçek argues that Armenian Genocide denial is one of the ideological foundations of the Turkish nation-state?
... that Canadian citizen Susan Thomson had her passport confiscated and spent five weeks in "re-education" in 2006 due to her ethnographic research in Rwanda?
... that the assassination of Talat Pasha to avenge the Armenian Genocide resulted in "one of the most spectacular trials of the twentieth century"?
... that Turkish schoolchildren are taught that the Armenian Genocide never happened and instead, Armenians committed genocide against Turks?
... that on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2014, Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu claimed that "there is no trace of genocide in our history" – thus denying the Armenian Genocide?
... that many tombstones from the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki were used by the city and the Greek Orthodox Church for construction projects?
... that in Open Wounds, Vicken Cheterian argues that "by censoring the Armenian Genocide, its impact, traces and consequences do not simply disappear. It continues in various forms"?
... that in his book, Uğur Ümit Üngör argues that the Armenian Genocide contributed to The Making of Modern Turkey?
... that the 2021 book Do Not Disturb was credited with exposing "a remarkable catalog of lies the [Rwandan government] sold to western apologists"?
... that one of the highest death rates in the Holocaust was in Bulgarian-occupied Greece, where 97 percent of Jews were killed in less than a month?
... that the 1914 Greek deportations have been described as "a trial run for the Armenian Genocide"?
... that the first use of the phrase "crimes against humanity" in diplomacy was in a May 1915 Entente declaration condemning the Armenian Genocide?
... that a Turkish court banned a Hrant Dink Foundation conference about the social, cultural and economic history of Kayseri?
... that more than 80 percent of Greek Jews were killed during the Holocaust in Greece (pictured)?
... that Amna Suraka, "the world's most depressing museum", includes a hall of broken mirrors (pictured) with a shard for each victim of the Anfal genocide?
... that the causes of the Armenian genocide are considered to include both long-term structural problems of the Ottoman Empire and wartime radicalization?
... that 9,000 Greek Jews were targeted by the 1942 Eleftherias Square roundup (pictured), and those who collapsed were attacked by dogs?
... that in the 2021 case Fedotova and Others v. Russia, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled that lack of legal recognition for same-sex couples violated human rights?
... that in the 2017 case Bayev and Others v. Russia, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russian laws against "promotion of homosexuality" violate freedom of speech?
... that in 2020, Border Violence Monitoring Network published the Black Book of Pushbacks documenting human rights violations against 12,654 migrants traveling on the Balkan route?
... that Azerbaijan has been a member of the Council of Europe, an organization promoting human rights, for more than twenty years, despite holding political prisoners and rigging elections?
... that addressing poverty is an important factor in achieving tuberculosis elimination?
... that pushbacks of migrants in the Aegean Sea have been described as "a human rights violation that encapsulates a will to eliminate a person's presence on the face of the planet"?
... that Frontex's role in pushbacks of migrants in Greece has led to investigations by the European Parliament, EU Ombudsman, and EU anti-fraud agency?
... that in 2021, the European Court of Justice ruled that the criminalization of assistance to asylum seekers violated EU law?
... that Birds Aren't Real?
... that the leaders of Nazi Germany believed that Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin were puppets of an international Jewish conspiracy?
... that lesbians in Nazi Germany, unlike gay men, did not face systematic persecution?
... that many Germans' belief that homosexuality was a communicable disease limited the success of the first homosexual movement?
... that belief that homosexuality can be acquired has motivated Nazi persecution, discriminatory age-of-consent laws, censorship of LGBT publications and employment discrimination?

... that as a result of the Röhm scandal, a Nazi became the world's first openly gay politician in 1932?
... that 120 years after the founding of the world's first homosexual organization in 1897, a monument near its former headquarters (pictured) was unveiled in Berlin?