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Lily Ebert, the Holocaust survivor who shared her experiences of Auschwitz on TikTok, has sadly died at the age of 100.

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Hitler believed the Soviets to be his natural ideological enemy and intended to conquer the country, enslave or exterminate the ‘subhuman’ native Slavic people.

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Hundreds of so-called vampires were discovered in a small town in northern Poland, with the bizarre burial practices shedding ...

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