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There’s a lot of talk about Hitler and his niece. What do we know for definite? Did they have a sexual relationship? And how did they come to be so close?	20
When did Churchill specifically begin to criticise Hitler and Nazi Germany? He’s always praised for having seen them for what they were long before other politicians but where is the initial recorded dialogue where he warned against national socialism and why did he have these feelings?	18
In the Russian drama “17 Moments of Spring” there is a high ranking SS official that is also a Soviet spy. How likely could a high ranking Nazi actually be a double agent for an enemy power? Did this ever happen? And would they get immunity from war crime proceedings post-war?	17
How much of Vincent Bugliosi’s claim that Charles Manson wanted to start a race war called Helter Skelter true?	11
Did the Spanish influenza of 1918-1920 generate the same media hysteria and government panic that the Corona virus currently is?	5
Is the Egyptian enslaving of the Jewish people an historical fact or is our only record of this from the Old Testament whose historical accuracy of events (such as the Garden of Eden and Noah) very much questionable? What literature or evidence exists outside the Bibles?	4
I always hear about the Romans feeding people to the lions but how on earth did the Romans get lions to Italy. My understanding is that there was not much travel into the sub-Sahara and there wasn't tranquilliser guns back then? It just seems impossible using only man power.	4
During the Spanish conquests of the Americas were their social justice warriors back home that cared about the deaths and exploitation of the natives?	3
Did anybody before Columbus try and fail to sail to the West and why was Columbus the first person to try it? Surely there was people before him wondering what was beyond that vast sea? What stopped people from doing this before Columbus?	3
Insurance strikes me as a totally capitalist concept. What forms of insurance was offered to Soviet Citizens and did they have Insurance during Stalin’s era?	2

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