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Why was the Church of Scientology officially recognized as a religion in America, even though it committed numerous criminal acts including infiltration and espionage toward the Federal government?	3419
I keep hearing that during the Nazi book burnings, the Institute of Sexology's research on transsexuality was burned and destroyed. To what degree was that research, if it existed, lost? Was the Institute's research (all of it) preserved anywhere?	124
Why is Haile Selassie I regarded as the second coming of Christ by the Rastafari?	98
How could Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge have had no idea that Hitler was evil and doing monstrous things?	91
Why did Liberia - as a project for formerly enslaved African peoples from the Americas - fail the way it did?	64
How could the "stab in the back" myth have formed if Germany had essentially become a military dictatorship under von Hindenburg and Ludendorff?	32
Why didn't the Allied Powers put more effort toward supporting Germany's fledgling republic post-WW1? And why didn't the stop the stab-in-the-back myth?	19
When the collateral branches of the Japanese Imperial Family were abolished by the Allied Powers, how was the former royalty treated by the average Japanese citizen? Did it make them living martyrs?	17
Did the theories of Dr. William Duncan Silkworth on alcoholism (that alcoholism was the result of an allergy of the body and disease of the mind treatable only by a "complete psychic change") have any impact on the medical world outside of Alcoholics Anonymous?	4
Why is Japanese war crime denialism as prominent as it is in Japanese society when Holocaust denialism is taboo in western Axis countries?	2

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