[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/twitter/_HistoryNerd) "In 1944 the Germans deployed an even more advanced cipher machine Lorenz used for high-level communications. It was more complex than Enigma with XX rotors generating nearly infinite combinations"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254686585081950) 2025-07-18 17:04:11 UTC 237K followers, 6863 engagements "I made a private history community for people who want to: Debunk theories and talk about the wild parts of history that school never touched. If That's You Join History Nerds"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254698819854713) 2025-07-18 17:04:14 UTC 237K followers, 8747 engagements "Hitlers deadliest weapon wasnt a bomb it was a doctor. Josef Mengele the Angel of Death turned Auschwitz into a twisted lab of horrors. Children pregnant women the disabled no one was spared. Heres how he vanished after the war & why his story still haunts history:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1947767781409136836) 2025-07-22 21:16:41 UTC 237K followers, 39.9K engagements "In the morning Pompeii was a thriving Roman city. By evening it was frozen in time. For 2000 years its secrets lay buried in ash. Now scientists and archaeologists are racing against time to uncover the city's last moments. What theyve found will leave you stunned:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1941589674679472391) 2025-07-05 20:07:06 UTC 237K followers, 305.6K engagements "On June XX 1941 Hitler betrayed Stalin and launched the deadliest invasion in history. X million German soldiers stormed into Soviet territory expecting victory in weeks. Instead it became Germanys biggest blunder and the start of its collapse. This is the story of Operation Barbarossa:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1940908985567076512) 2025-07-03 23:02:17 UTC 237K followers, 350K engagements "Osama Bin Laden with his family on vacation in Sweden 1971"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1942783563738538170) 2025-07-09 03:11:11 UTC 237K followers, 22.5K engagements "The first slaves in America werent African they were Irish. Men women and children were sold starved and worked to death. Their suffering was buried for centuries. Heres the dark & forgotten truth about Irelands hidden history of slavery:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1921662494457622558) 2025-05-11 20:23:36 UTC 237K followers, 8.8M engagements "The Titanic didnt sink by accident. J.P. Morgan had a first-class ticket on the Titanic. But he canceled at the last minute. His biggest financial rivals stayed onboard and never made it back. Heres the wild theory behind the unsinkable ship:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1945206294102650933) 2025-07-15 19:38:15 UTC 237K followers, 449.6K engagements "Josef Mengele was born in 1911 in Gnzburg Germany into a wealthy family. He earned a PhD in anthropology and a medical degree in genetics and heredity. Mengele was influenced by the pseudoscientific theories of racial hygiene the genetic "purity" of the Aryan race"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1947767784131174571) 2025-07-22 21:16:42 UTC 237K followers, 3019 engagements "The Eiffel Tower during the Nazi occupation 1940. The writing says "Germany wins on all fronts""  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1947705165709988081) 2025-07-22 17:07:52 UTC 237K followers, 6309 engagements "Hitler trusted his unbreakable Enigma machine. But in a quiet English estate a team of mathematicians misfits and mavericks proved him wrong. They didnt just crack the code they shortened WWII by X years & saved millions of lives. This is the incredible story of Station X:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254662169944189) 2025-07-18 17:04:05 UTC 237K followers, 408.2K engagements "In 1983 one man had XX minutes to decide the fate of the world. Stanislav Petrov sat at his console as alarms blared: X U.S. nuclear missiles were "en route" to Russia. He had two choices: launch a counterstrike or trust his gut. What he did next saved the fate of humanity"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1943714309646737587) 2025-07-11 16:49:38 UTC 237K followers, 128.2K engagements "A 2000-year-old Ancient Greek floor mosaic that was accidentally discovered in Turkey"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1944474408648585636) 2025-07-13 19:10:00 UTC 237K followers, 25.2K engagements "Adolf Eichmann murdered X million people from behind a desk. Then he vanished. XX years later X Mossad agents waited at a bus stop in Argentina. They werent there to arrest him. They came to kidnap him. This is how Israel hunted down the architect of the Holocaust:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1940096967796809995) 2025-07-01 17:15:37 UTC 237K followers, 25.6M engagements "Mengele was also manipulative and charming. Many prisoners described how he would speak to his subjects with kindness before subjecting them to torture. He made the twins believe they were special. He had a strange obsession with dwarfs and individuals with genetic anomalies"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1947767806587801924) 2025-07-22 21:16:47 UTC 237K followers, 1931 engagements "80 years old cartoon that is still relevant"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1942395711771058579) 2025-07-08 01:30:00 UTC 237K followers, 1.4M engagements "By the late 1930s Nazi Germany had developed the Enigma machine capable of encrypting messages into a seemingly unbreakable code. With over XXX million possible configurations the Germans believed their communications were secure. But Britain recognized the danger"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254664892055909) 2025-07-18 17:04:06 UTC 237K followers, 14.4K engagements "Zinaida Portnova took the lives of more than XXX Nazis by poisoning their food at just XX years of age. She was captured by the Gestapo and while being interrogated she disarmed the Nazi detective and shot him in the head. In her attempt to escape she executed X more Nazis"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1941998763582673060) 2025-07-06 23:12:40 UTC 237K followers, 996.2K engagements "A Vietnam veteran being told how much his Rolex is worth"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1944837191047221734) 2025-07-14 19:11:34 UTC 237K followers, 62.7K engagements "The Titanic didnt sink the way you think. J.P. Morgan had a first-class ticket on the Titanic. But he canceled at the last minute. His biggest financial rivals stayed onboardand never made it back. Heres the truth about the unsinkable ship:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1909354689902112799) 2025-04-07 21:16:46 UTC 237K followers, 21.9M engagements "With the help of Catholic priests and Nazi sympathizers Eichmann escaped to South America. Argentina welcomed former Nazis. He lived under the name Ricardo Klement working for Mercedes-Benz. To his neighbors he was just a quiet mechanic"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1940096978110882094) 2025-07-01 17:15:39 UTC 237K followers, 790.6K engagements "Polish intelligence made progress by uncovering some Enigmas mechanics and passed this knowledge to the British just before Germany invaded Poland. However the Germans added more layers of complexity. Station X faced a nearly impossible challenge until they discovered a flaw"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254673150656988) 2025-07-18 17:04:08 UTC 237K followers, 10.2K engagements "This man risked his life to help America win the Cold War. He betrayed the Soviet Union and gave the CIA secrets worth billions. But in the end he was betrayed by his allies. This is the story of Adolf Tolkachev (the Billion Dollar Spy):"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1943397574985101427) 2025-07-10 19:51:03 UTC 237K followers, 437.5K engagements "- Alan Turing a shy mathematical prodigy who would later pioneer the modern computer - Anthropologists paleontologists and Egyptologists with a knack for spotting patterns - Teenagers and crossword enthusiasts recruited for their lateral thinking"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254670260744701) 2025-07-18 17:04:07 UTC 237K followers, 10.8K engagements "The Battle of El Alamein (1942): Ultra exposed German supply routes enabling the British to disrupt Rommels operations in North Africa. Ultra was so effective that Churchill described it as the goose that laid the golden egg"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254679827939402) 2025-07-18 17:04:09 UTC 237K followers, 8088 engagements "Alcatraz was built to be escape-proof. Sharks in the water Guards on every tower Freezing currents no man could survive For years no one made it out until June XX 1962. The true story of the greatest prison break in history:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1915866027528798514) 2025-04-25 20:30:30 UTC 237K followers, 43.2M engagements "In 1941 the capture of U-110 a German submarine provided the codebooks needed to crack the naval Enigma. With this breakthrough Station X could locate U-boat wolf packs and help Allied ships avoid destruction"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254684722733466) 2025-07-18 17:04:11 UTC 237K followers, 7481 engagements "In 1939 they transformed Bletchley Park into a top-secret codebreaking hub Station X. The stakes were clear: breaking Enigma was the key to winning the war. Station X assembled an unconventional group of individuals:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254667370967538) 2025-07-18 17:04:07 UTC 237.1K followers, 11.8K engagements "Interior of the National Opera of Paris Palais Garnier"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1944469136932798845) 2025-07-13 18:49:03 UTC 237K followers, 7458 engagements "The original 1891 patent for a toilet paper roll illustrates the correct rolling direction"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1943354781864726921) 2025-07-10 17:01:00 UTC 237K followers, 15.5K engagements "In 1969 the US achieved the impossible: landing on the moon. Yet XX years later millions still believe it was the biggest hoax of all time. Did NASA fake the moon landing or is that just a conspiracy theory Heres the truth behind the Apollo XX mission:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1939401224517832883) 2025-06-29 19:10:58 UTC 237K followers, 351.6K engagements "A man guarding his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 the time of the British Raj India"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946716840824086852) 2025-07-19 23:40:37 UTC 237K followers, 39.8K engagements "The Nazis werent historys only monsters. Japans Unit XXX froze prisoners alive dissected children without anesthesia and unleashed plague bombs on cities. And one man Shir Ishii led it all. Heres the forgotten horror of WWII:"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1939019977245310982) 2025-06-28 17:56:02 UTC 237K followers, 894.3K engagements "Alan Turings genius led to the invention of the Bombe an electromechanical machine designed to quickly test Enigmas possible settings. By automating the process the Bombe could decrypt messages in hours instead of weeks"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1946254675050733967) 2025-07-18 17:04:08 UTC 237K followers, 9705 engagements "When the war ended in 1945 Mengele fled: He disguised himself as a regular German soldier and avoided immediate capture. In 1949 with the help of Nazi sympathizers he escaped to Argentina later moving to Paraguay and Brazil"  [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/x/_HistoryNerd) on [X](/post/tweet/1947767809502593281) 2025-07-22 21:16:48 UTC 237K followers, 1893 engagements
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"In 1944 the Germans deployed an even more advanced cipher machine Lorenz used for high-level communications. It was more complex than Enigma with XX rotors generating nearly infinite combinations"
@_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:11 UTC 237K followers, 6863 engagements
"I made a private history community for people who want to: Debunk theories and talk about the wild parts of history that school never touched. If That's You Join History Nerds" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:14 UTC 237K followers, 8747 engagements
"Hitlers deadliest weapon wasnt a bomb it was a doctor. Josef Mengele the Angel of Death turned Auschwitz into a twisted lab of horrors. Children pregnant women the disabled no one was spared. Heres how he vanished after the war & why his story still haunts history:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-22 21:16:41 UTC 237K followers, 39.9K engagements
"In the morning Pompeii was a thriving Roman city. By evening it was frozen in time. For 2000 years its secrets lay buried in ash. Now scientists and archaeologists are racing against time to uncover the city's last moments. What theyve found will leave you stunned:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-05 20:07:06 UTC 237K followers, 305.6K engagements
"On June XX 1941 Hitler betrayed Stalin and launched the deadliest invasion in history. X million German soldiers stormed into Soviet territory expecting victory in weeks. Instead it became Germanys biggest blunder and the start of its collapse. This is the story of Operation Barbarossa:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-03 23:02:17 UTC 237K followers, 350K engagements
"Osama Bin Laden with his family on vacation in Sweden 1971" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-09 03:11:11 UTC 237K followers, 22.5K engagements
"The first slaves in America werent African they were Irish. Men women and children were sold starved and worked to death. Their suffering was buried for centuries. Heres the dark & forgotten truth about Irelands hidden history of slavery:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-05-11 20:23:36 UTC 237K followers, 8.8M engagements
"The Titanic didnt sink by accident. J.P. Morgan had a first-class ticket on the Titanic. But he canceled at the last minute. His biggest financial rivals stayed onboard and never made it back. Heres the wild theory behind the unsinkable ship:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-15 19:38:15 UTC 237K followers, 449.6K engagements
"Josef Mengele was born in 1911 in Gnzburg Germany into a wealthy family. He earned a PhD in anthropology and a medical degree in genetics and heredity. Mengele was influenced by the pseudoscientific theories of racial hygiene the genetic "purity" of the Aryan race" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-22 21:16:42 UTC 237K followers, 3019 engagements
"The Eiffel Tower during the Nazi occupation 1940. The writing says "Germany wins on all fronts"" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-22 17:07:52 UTC 237K followers, 6309 engagements
"Hitler trusted his unbreakable Enigma machine. But in a quiet English estate a team of mathematicians misfits and mavericks proved him wrong. They didnt just crack the code they shortened WWII by X years & saved millions of lives. This is the incredible story of Station X:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:05 UTC 237K followers, 408.2K engagements
"In 1983 one man had XX minutes to decide the fate of the world. Stanislav Petrov sat at his console as alarms blared: X U.S. nuclear missiles were "en route" to Russia. He had two choices: launch a counterstrike or trust his gut. What he did next saved the fate of humanity" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-11 16:49:38 UTC 237K followers, 128.2K engagements
"A 2000-year-old Ancient Greek floor mosaic that was accidentally discovered in Turkey" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-13 19:10:00 UTC 237K followers, 25.2K engagements
"Adolf Eichmann murdered X million people from behind a desk. Then he vanished. XX years later X Mossad agents waited at a bus stop in Argentina. They werent there to arrest him. They came to kidnap him. This is how Israel hunted down the architect of the Holocaust:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-01 17:15:37 UTC 237K followers, 25.6M engagements
"Mengele was also manipulative and charming. Many prisoners described how he would speak to his subjects with kindness before subjecting them to torture. He made the twins believe they were special. He had a strange obsession with dwarfs and individuals with genetic anomalies" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-22 21:16:47 UTC 237K followers, 1931 engagements
"80 years old cartoon that is still relevant" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-08 01:30:00 UTC 237K followers, 1.4M engagements
"By the late 1930s Nazi Germany had developed the Enigma machine capable of encrypting messages into a seemingly unbreakable code. With over XXX million possible configurations the Germans believed their communications were secure. But Britain recognized the danger" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:06 UTC 237K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Zinaida Portnova took the lives of more than XXX Nazis by poisoning their food at just XX years of age. She was captured by the Gestapo and while being interrogated she disarmed the Nazi detective and shot him in the head. In her attempt to escape she executed X more Nazis" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-06 23:12:40 UTC 237K followers, 996.2K engagements
"A Vietnam veteran being told how much his Rolex is worth" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-14 19:11:34 UTC 237K followers, 62.7K engagements
"The Titanic didnt sink the way you think. J.P. Morgan had a first-class ticket on the Titanic. But he canceled at the last minute. His biggest financial rivals stayed onboardand never made it back. Heres the truth about the unsinkable ship:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-04-07 21:16:46 UTC 237K followers, 21.9M engagements
"With the help of Catholic priests and Nazi sympathizers Eichmann escaped to South America. Argentina welcomed former Nazis. He lived under the name Ricardo Klement working for Mercedes-Benz. To his neighbors he was just a quiet mechanic" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-01 17:15:39 UTC 237K followers, 790.6K engagements
"Polish intelligence made progress by uncovering some Enigmas mechanics and passed this knowledge to the British just before Germany invaded Poland. However the Germans added more layers of complexity. Station X faced a nearly impossible challenge until they discovered a flaw" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:08 UTC 237K followers, 10.2K engagements
"This man risked his life to help America win the Cold War. He betrayed the Soviet Union and gave the CIA secrets worth billions. But in the end he was betrayed by his allies. This is the story of Adolf Tolkachev (the Billion Dollar Spy):" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-10 19:51:03 UTC 237K followers, 437.5K engagements
"- Alan Turing a shy mathematical prodigy who would later pioneer the modern computer - Anthropologists paleontologists and Egyptologists with a knack for spotting patterns - Teenagers and crossword enthusiasts recruited for their lateral thinking" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:07 UTC 237K followers, 10.8K engagements
"The Battle of El Alamein (1942): Ultra exposed German supply routes enabling the British to disrupt Rommels operations in North Africa. Ultra was so effective that Churchill described it as the goose that laid the golden egg" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:09 UTC 237K followers, 8088 engagements
"Alcatraz was built to be escape-proof. Sharks in the water Guards on every tower Freezing currents no man could survive For years no one made it out until June XX 1962. The true story of the greatest prison break in history:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-04-25 20:30:30 UTC 237K followers, 43.2M engagements
"In 1941 the capture of U-110 a German submarine provided the codebooks needed to crack the naval Enigma. With this breakthrough Station X could locate U-boat wolf packs and help Allied ships avoid destruction" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:11 UTC 237K followers, 7481 engagements
"In 1939 they transformed Bletchley Park into a top-secret codebreaking hub Station X. The stakes were clear: breaking Enigma was the key to winning the war. Station X assembled an unconventional group of individuals:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:07 UTC 237.1K followers, 11.8K engagements
"Interior of the National Opera of Paris Palais Garnier" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-13 18:49:03 UTC 237K followers, 7458 engagements
"The original 1891 patent for a toilet paper roll illustrates the correct rolling direction" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-10 17:01:00 UTC 237K followers, 15.5K engagements
"In 1969 the US achieved the impossible: landing on the moon. Yet XX years later millions still believe it was the biggest hoax of all time. Did NASA fake the moon landing or is that just a conspiracy theory Heres the truth behind the Apollo XX mission:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-06-29 19:10:58 UTC 237K followers, 351.6K engagements
"A man guarding his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 the time of the British Raj India" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-19 23:40:37 UTC 237K followers, 39.8K engagements
"The Nazis werent historys only monsters. Japans Unit XXX froze prisoners alive dissected children without anesthesia and unleashed plague bombs on cities. And one man Shir Ishii led it all. Heres the forgotten horror of WWII:" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-06-28 17:56:02 UTC 237K followers, 894.3K engagements
"Alan Turings genius led to the invention of the Bombe an electromechanical machine designed to quickly test Enigmas possible settings. By automating the process the Bombe could decrypt messages in hours instead of weeks" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:08 UTC 237K followers, 9705 engagements
"When the war ended in 1945 Mengele fled: He disguised himself as a regular German soldier and avoided immediate capture. In 1949 with the help of Nazi sympathizers he escaped to Argentina later moving to Paraguay and Brazil" @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-22 21:16:48 UTC 237K followers, 1893 engagements