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21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub ...

Organised by the Allies to bring senior Nazis to justice for their part in the war crimes committed by the regime, t first Nuremberg Trial lasted for almost a ...

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The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik ...