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6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

6th May 2025
Tagged as: Berlin, Culture, Diary, Forgery, Germany, History, Hitler, Second World War

West Germany’s Federal Archives revealed that forensic tests proved the Hitler Diaries were forgeries.

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21st November 1953: Piltdown Man fossils exposed as a forgery, undermining studies of human evolution

21st November 2023
Tagged as: Anthropology, England, Forgery, Fossil, Hoax, Human, Paleontology, Science

The use of fluorine dating revealed that the skull and jawbone, which were once believed to be a crucial ‘missing piece’ in the study of human evolution, did not belong to the same individual and were far younger than previously thought.

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6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

21st November 1953: Piltdown Man fossils exposed as a forgery, undermining studies of human evolution

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

12th October 539 BCE: Babylon falls to the Persian king Cyrus the Great

11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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