The origin for the scandal lay in the discovery of a ripped-up letter in a waste basket at the German Embassy in Paris.
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No accurate record exists of how many people responded to Pope Urban II’s call, but estimates suggest anywhere between 60,000 and 100,000 people joined the First Crusade.
Eichmann was known as the architect of the Final Solution, the man who coordinated the transportation of Jews from across Europe to Death Camps in the East.
On the 27th January 1945, Soviet soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near the Polish city of Oświęcim.
On the 12th June 1942, Anne Frank received a diary as a thirteenth birthday present from her father.
On the 20th January 1942, a number of senior Nazis met at the Wannsee Conference where they discussed what was referred to as the Final Solution to the Jewish Question.
On the 15th September 1935, the German Reichstag passed the Nuremberg Laws that legally discriminated against Jews.
On the 15th July 1834 the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, otherwise known as the Spanish Inquisition, was disbanded.
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