72 years after the liquidation of the Sobibór camp, the number of its victims remains the subject of disputes among scientists. Most often it is said about 250 to 300 thousand. murdered Jews. Meanwhile, the latest research shows that there were almost half as many of them! We owe the new estimat
a guest article by History Online Greece is known for a lot today:sunny weather, gyros, the invention of democracy. However, there is one thing the Greeks are not famous for, no matter how hard they try. your thrift. This circumstance has thrown the people into trouble a few times in the course of
The 19th century was a disaster for the native peoples of North America. The westward expansion of the United States came at the expense of their land, their freedom, and often their lives, a massive displacement that occurred over a surprisingly short period of time. Between 1810 and 1895, the Unit
After the disastrous defeat of his fleet at Salamis, Xerxes withdrew with the bulk of his army from Greece, leaving his general and son-in-law Mardonius, with 300,000, to subjugate Greece. The latter retreated to the Boeotian plain and wintered there. The Greeks also moved there having gathered a st