In 2002, a man was hit by a truck in Finland as he was trying to cross highway 8 on his bike. 2 hours later his twin brother was also hit by a truck while trying to cross highway 8 on his bike. They died within 1.5 km of each other, 2 hours apart.
Stalin, Hitler, and Franz Josef, collectively responsible for nearly 80 million deaths all lived in Vienna at the same time.
Napoleon and Hitler were born 129 years apart, came to power 129 years apart, declared war on Russia 129 years apart, and were defeated 129 years apart.
Mark was born in 1835 during an appearance of Halley’s Comet. In 1909 he said he expected to go out with Halley’s Comet when it came the following year. In 1910 he died on the day of its appearance.
[h=1]The moment the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz was made to pay for deaths of 300,000 Jews: Oskar Groening, 94, grimaces as German court jails ex-Nazi guard for four years[/h]
94-year-old former Nazi officer was sentenced to four years behind bars
He was guilty of being accessory to murder of 300,000 Jews in Auschwitz
Groening had accepted moral responsibility but denied any crime
His lawyers say they will be appealing, so he may never serve jail time
Hitler was the undoubted great villain of the 20th century. But did you know Stalin actually killed more people? The Soviet dictator murdered an incredible , compared to Hitler’s 20 million. The Truth
If 60 million sounds like an exaggeration, that’s because it probably is. The entire population of the Soviet Union was around 160 million when Stalin came to power. Combine that loss with the lowest estimate of another when Germany invaded, and Stalin would have had almost no one left to govern. The discrepancy comes from estimates made during the Cold War about the number of prisoners dying in the gulags. Since the Soviets didn’t want their death tolls exposed, analysts in the West had to make educated guesses. In doing so, they greatly inflated the number.
When the Soviet archives were opened and finally studied, they showed that no more than one million died in Stalin’s camps.
That’s still a terrible number but nowhere near what we expected. According to historian Timothy Snyder, the real number of people deliberately killed by Stalin is between six and nine million—a figure that includes the mass famines of the early 1930s. By contrast, Germany under Hitler killed11–12 million noncombatant