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Online Resources for Historians 6 RZM Feb 2012 Mar 2018 7 43203
Welcome to the DU World History Group! 0 RZM Feb 2012 Dec 2011 3 54370
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Favorite documentaries? 11 Adsos Letter Dec 2011 Jun 2013 1 4780
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This message was self-deleted by its author 9 appalachiablue Jun 2019 Jun 2019 2 2887
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U.S. Troops Cross The Rhine's Ludendorff Bridge At Remagen, March 7, 1945, WWII 0 appalachiablue Mar 2020 Mar 2020 8 1609
A Trip Through The Streets Of Paris, 1927 0 appalachiablue May 2020 May 2020 9 1111
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Chilling Find: King Henry VIII Planned All Details of Wife Anne Bolelyn's Beheading, Brit Archives 6 appalachiablue Oct 2020 Oct 2020 12 1908
France: 'Super Rare' 100 Yr Old Carrier Pigeon Message In Capsule Found, Sent By WWI German Soldier 2 appalachiablue Nov 2020 Nov 2020 18 1845
Athens: Bust of Ancient Greek God Found During Sewage Work 0 appalachiablue Nov 2020 Nov 2020 13 1440
Wuthering Heights: 16th C. House That Inspired 1847 Emily Bronte Novel For Sale, West Yorkshire 5 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 4 1262
German 88 Flak Guns Used By Nazis In WWII, Color Action Scenes 16 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 7 1749
'The Death Factory': Hurtgen Forest and The End of WWII 7 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 4 1968
WWII Germany: Weimar Civilians Forced To Tour Buchenwald Concentration Camp *Graphic Images* 4 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 18 1315
WWII: 3 Dutch Girls, Teen Resistance Fighters Lured Nazi Collaborators To Execution 5 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 19 1059
WWII: The White Rose, Brave German College Students Opposed Nazi Reich: Hans & Sophie Scholl 2 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 11 944
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WWII: Dec. 15, 1944, Musician Glenn Miller Flt. Lost Over English Channel; Battle of the Bulge Began 8 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 8 1106
WWII: Dec. 16, 1944, Battle of the Bulge, German Army Surrounds Allies in the Ardennes Mts. 4 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 3 1002
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'Swing Kids' Movie Trailer (1993), Christian Bale, Kenneth Branagh: SwingJugend in Nazi Germany 8 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 9 1181
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Steve Domitrovich, Last Survivor Malmedy Massacre, Dec. 17, 1944, Battle of the Bulge WWII 12 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 7 1571
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Liberation of Munich, Germany April 30, 1945, Film 0 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 4 853
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Pictures of The Madness: Nazi Germany 1937- 1939, Color 4 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Jan 2021 11 1350
Washington, D.C. VE-Day, May 8, 1945, Color, Victory In Europe Day 0 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 3 842
Funeral of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 14, 1945 2 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 5 1461
WWII France: 1940 Nazi Occupation, German Tank Panzer Division Parades Down Streets of Paris 4 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 3 1278
Pompeii, Italy: Well-Preserved Roman Era Fast- Food 'Snack Bar,' Frescos Unearthed 2 appalachiablue Dec 2020 Dec 2020 7 1192
Reichstag Fire Aided The End of Democracy, Rise of Hitler Dictatorship In Germany, Feb. 27, 1933 4 appalachiablue Jan 2021 Jan 2021 4 1379
From The Bastille To The Capitol: Storming Government Bldgs. Through The Ages, DW 0 appalachiablue Jan 2021 Jan 2021 2 1141
Hitler's Failed Coup d'Etat In Munich: The Beer Hall Putsch Nov. 8, 1923 5 appalachiablue Jan 2021 Jan 2021 7 1451
Kristallnacht: 'Night of Broken Glass' Nazi Paramilitary, Violence Against Jews 1938, Scary Reminder 4 appalachiablue Jan 2021 Jan 2021 4 1315
Rembrandt, Dutch Slave Trade On 4 Continents: New Exhibit, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 0 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 3 1286
Photographs of People In The 1840s: Early Traces of Reality 7 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 30 2947
What Began The Rise Of Fascism In Europe? Titans Of The 20th Century 0 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 7 972
American Virginia Hall, The Most Feared Spy of WWII 2 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 3 970
Fires of The Spanish Inquisition, Horrors of The Roman Inquisition 7 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 3 1204
'The People Are Revolting' Count de Money; The French Revolution, Hist. of The World, Mel Brooks 0 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 6 1413
Nazi Princesses, The Fates of Top Nazis' Wives & Mistresses: Mark Felton Prod. 3 appalachiablue Feb 2021 May 2021 12 3080
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: Mob Violence, Assassination of Protestants By Catholics, 1572 France 0 appalachiablue Feb 2021 Feb 2021 1 1899
Hitler's 'Iron Maidens,' Women Awarded The Iron Cross in Combat, WW2 2 appalachiablue Mar 2021 Mar 2021 3 1914
The Peasants' Revolt 1381, Begun By A Baker Serf. The 14th Century, 100 Years of Struggle 3 appalachiablue Mar 2021 Mar 2021 6 1394
The Famous Wartime Couple That Changed Photography: Robt. Capa, Gerda Taro. Spanish Civil War, WW2 0 appalachiablue Mar 2021 Mar 2021 10 1392
Portugal Confronts Its Role In The Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade, International Day of Remembrance 0 appalachiablue Mar 2021 Mar 2021 2 1146

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Paris Walks, Hemingway's Paris: PBS, 'Hemingway Behind The Scenes' 0 appalachiablue Apr 2021 Apr 2021 2 1715
March 1939, Europe Before WW2: Color Home Movies 0 appalachiablue Apr 2021 Apr 2021 3 913
Brave French Woman Saved Artworks From Nazi Theft in WW2, Rose Valland, Monuments Men 2 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 12 1479
Paris 1940- Nazi Occupation: Lambeth Walk Nazi Parody Film 2 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 5 1125
Serge & Beate Klarsfeld, Heroic Nazi Hunters Still Fighting For Justice 0 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 6 1086
THE DARK AGES: Just How Dark Were They After The Fall of The Roman Empire? 8 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 15 1717
How Fashion Helped Defeat 18th-Century Anti-Vaxxers 0 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 8 911
A Day In Germany 1945, World War II. In Color, Sound Added, Spectacular Footage 4 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 6 1265
Mexico City: 500 Yrs Since Spanish Conquest Battle 1521: Smallpox Epidemics, Abuses, Colonial Rule 0 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 2 790
Vlad the Impaler vs Count Dracula: Epic Moments In Rap History 0 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 1 1262
Sir Ken Adam: German Fighter Pilot In Brit RAF WW2; Film Design Awards, James Bond, Dr Strangelove.. 0 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 1 1403
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Hitler's Forgotten Ally, Croatia's Ante Pavelic: Pre-War Fascists, Nationalists In Nazi Europe 0 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 3 1684
American Nazis, The German American Bund: Fascist Groups in Europe 1920s, 1930s 2 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 4 1287
One of Napoleon's Hats Could Fetch 600,000 Euros At Auction In Paris 0 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 3 1111
Nazi Germany, Opposition To Hitler: 'They're Drunk On Propaganda' 0 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 1 957
Spain: Unease Over Planned Statue Honoring Elite Troops In Military Dictator Franco's Fascist Mvmt. 4 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 2 1426
Kindertransport: Jewish Children Rescued From Nazi Europe After Kristallnacht 1938, Sent To Britain 4 appalachiablue Aug 2021 Aug 2021 7 1660
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) *1st Battle Between Democracy & Fascism* Prelude To Tragedy, WWII 2 appalachiablue Aug 2021 Aug 2021 3 937
Basque Refugee Children Evacuated From Spanish Civil War Arrive In England: Civil War (1936-1939) 0 appalachiablue Aug 2021 Aug 2021 5 784
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