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"A Vietnam veteran being told how much his Rolex is worth"  
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"1. Benjamin Guggenheim (mining magnate) X. Isidor Straus (co-owner of Macys) X. John Jacob Astor IV (one of the richest men in the world) All three opposed Morgans plans for the Federal Reserve. None of them survived"  
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"On December XX 1961 Eichmann was found guilty of the crimes. On June X 1962 he was hanged. His final words: Long live Germany. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready. His ashes were scattered in the sea"  
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"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:"  
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"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:"  
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"Eichmann wasn't a general. He didnt fire a bullet. But he masterminded the Final Solution Hitlers plan to wipe out European Jewry. He designed the system of trains ghettos and death camps. He made genocide efficient"  
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"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"  
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"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:"  
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"He experimented with: X-ray exposure. Men and women were subjected to intense radiation that caused severe burns and destroyed reproductive organs. Some prisoners ovaries or testicles were later removed after exposure to study the damage/"  
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"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:"  
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"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:"  
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"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:"  
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"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"  
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"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"  
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"A man guarding his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 the time of the British Raj India"  
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"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"  
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"3. Experiments on Pregnant Women Pregnant women were often subjected to unspeakable horrors: Mengele conducted experiments on expectant mothers to study genetic anomalies. Some women were forced to give birth in the camp only for their newborns to be immediately killed"  
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"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:"  
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"The Eiffel Tower during the Nazi occupation 1940. The writing says "Germany wins on all fronts""  
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"They kept him sedated in a safehouse for XX days. Then disguised as a drunk flight attendant he was smuggled onto an Israeli plane. When the plane left Argentinian airspace the agents radioed back: Eichmann is on board"  
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"Interior of the National Opera of Paris Palais Garnier"  
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"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"  
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"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:"  
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"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"  
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"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"  
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"80 years old cartoon that is still relevant"  
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"In 1961 Eichmann stood trial in Jerusalem. The courtroom had bulletproof glass. Survivors testified. Eichmann didnt deny the Holocaust. He only said: I was just following orders. The world saw a bureaucrat of genocide"  
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"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"  
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"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:"  
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"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"  
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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"  
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"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"  
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"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"  
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"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:"  
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"A 2000-year-old Ancient Greek floor mosaic that was accidentally discovered in Turkey"  
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"While Luftwaffe and army messages were being decrypted the naval Enigma posed a greater challenge. German U-boats were decimating Allied convoys in the Atlantic threatening Britains lifeline of supplies"  
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"- 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"  
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"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:"  
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@_HistoryNerd "A Vietnam veteran being told how much his Rolex is worth"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-14 19:11:34 UTC 237K followers, 63.1K engagements

"1. Benjamin Guggenheim (mining magnate) X. Isidor Straus (co-owner of Macys) X. John Jacob Astor IV (one of the richest men in the world) All three opposed Morgans plans for the Federal Reserve. None of them survived"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-15 19:38:18 UTC 237.1K followers, 15.5K engagements

"On December XX 1961 Eichmann was found guilty of the crimes. On June X 1962 he was hanged. His final words: Long live Germany. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready. His ashes were scattered in the sea"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-01 17:15:42 UTC 237.1K followers, 679.9K 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-05-11 20:23:36 UTC 237K followers, 8.8M 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-06-29 19:10:58 UTC 237.1K followers, 351.7K engagements

"Eichmann wasn't a general. He didnt fire a bullet. But he masterminded the Final Solution Hitlers plan to wipe out European Jewry. He designed the system of trains ghettos and death camps. He made genocide efficient"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-01 17:15:37 UTC 237.1K followers, 969.8K 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:14 UTC 237.1K followers, 8793 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-22 21:16:41 UTC 237K followers, 52.9K engagements

"He experimented with: X-ray exposure. Men and women were subjected to intense radiation that caused severe burns and destroyed reproductive organs. Some prisoners ovaries or testicles were later removed after exposure to study the damage/"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-22 21:16:46 UTC 237.1K followers, 2976 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-15 19:38:15 UTC 237K followers, 450K 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-04-07 21:16:46 UTC 237.1K followers, 21.9M 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-04-25 20:30:30 UTC 237.1K followers, 43.2M 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-22 21:16:42 UTC 237K followers, 4259 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:11 UTC 237K followers, 7534 engagements

"A man guarding his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 the time of the British Raj India"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-19 23:40:37 UTC 237K followers, 40K 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-01 17:15:39 UTC 237K followers, 790.6K engagements

"3. Experiments on Pregnant Women Pregnant women were often subjected to unspeakable horrors: Mengele conducted experiments on expectant mothers to study genetic anomalies. Some women were forced to give birth in the camp only for their newborns to be immediately killed"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-22 21:16:46 UTC 237.1K followers, 2889 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:07 UTC 237.1K followers, 11.9K engagements

"The Eiffel Tower during the Nazi occupation 1940. The writing says "Germany wins on all fronts""
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-22 17:07:52 UTC 237K followers, 7582 engagements

"They kept him sedated in a safehouse for XX days. Then disguised as a drunk flight attendant he was smuggled onto an Israeli plane. When the plane left Argentinian airspace the agents radioed back: Eichmann is on board"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-01 17:15:41 UTC 237K followers, 689.9K engagements

"Interior of the National Opera of Paris Palais Garnier"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-13 18:49:03 UTC 237K followers, 7499 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-22 21:16:47 UTC 237.1K followers, 2731 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-06-28 17:56:02 UTC 237K followers, 895K 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:06 UTC 237K followers, 14.5K 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:08 UTC 237K followers, 10.2K engagements

"80 years old cartoon that is still relevant"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-08 01:30:00 UTC 237.1K followers, 1.4M engagements

"In 1961 Eichmann stood trial in Jerusalem. The courtroom had bulletproof glass. Survivors testified. Eichmann didnt deny the Holocaust. He only said: I was just following orders. The world saw a bureaucrat of genocide"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-01 17:15:42 UTC 237K followers, 699.6K 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:08 UTC 237K followers, 9705 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:05 UTC 237K followers, 409K 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-22 21:16:48 UTC 237K followers, 2676 engagements

"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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:11 UTC 237K followers, 6915 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-06 23:12:40 UTC 237.1K followers, 996.5K 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-11 16:49:38 UTC 237K followers, 128.2K 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-03 23:02:17 UTC 237K followers, 350K engagements

"A 2000-year-old Ancient Greek floor mosaic that was accidentally discovered in Turkey"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-13 19:10:00 UTC 237K followers, 25.5K engagements

"While Luftwaffe and army messages were being decrypted the naval Enigma posed a greater challenge. German U-boats were decimating Allied convoys in the Atlantic threatening Britains lifeline of supplies"
@_HistoryNerd Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:10 UTC 237K followers, 7571 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-18 17:04:07 UTC 237K followers, 10.9K 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 Avatar @_HistoryNerd on X 2025-07-01 17:15:37 UTC 237.1K followers, 25.7M engagements

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