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What is the academic consensus on Horace Greasley, the man who claimed to be a British POW who was caught on camera staring down Heinrich Himmler in a concentration camp in Belarus - Especially the claim that he escaped over 200 times to make love to a Jewish girl?	3
[Relavent to Žikica Jovanović during WW2] Do we know how "The Spaniard" broke out of prison when he was captured by the Nazis in France? Wikipedia just says he "aided and escape." -- I just found out about this guy and I'm really amazed.	3
Would a German soldier/police officer be allowed to smoke a cigar/cigarette in uniform during World War 2?	3
What significance do scholars attribute to the whole "European Liberty vs. Eastern domination" notion in Western Society? E.G.: "Molon Labe"/"Vienna 1683" and etc?	3
The Wikipedia page for the Winter War shows 188,671–207,538 Soviets dead or missing. Assuming only 1/4 went missing, how did 47167 men (and one guy who lost his leg, as the .75, I suppose) just go missing?	3
Why did libertarian socialists support the authoritarian Bolsheviks? When did they realize that the Bolsheviks would betray them?	2
Who were the "Anarkiddies" anarchists before the Punk movement took it up?	2
[US politics, mid 1900's] - Was the Rise of the Social Conservatives strictly something from the 1960's onwards? Would any large group before then have considered themselves a Conservative in the same way that people do today? (Anti-Left, pro-Christianity, etc).	2
How did people in the Soviet Union and China determine the goals of the Five Year Plans?	2
So, say during German Unification in the 1800's - How did European powers go about moving troops from their territory, into neutral territory, and then into enemy territory?	2

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