The History Thread

Christopher Columbus was Spanish and Jewish, documentary reveals
The centuries-old mystery over Christopher Columbus’s nationality has been revealed by scientists in a Spanish TV documentary after using DNA analysis.

The 15th explorer was Jewish and from Spain, according to Columbus DNA: His True Origin, a programme broadcast on national broadcaster RTVE on Saturday to mark Spain celebrating its national day and commemorating Columbus’s arrival in the New World.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...us-was-spanish-and-jewish-documentary-reveals
 
Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a richly decorated but uncommonly small house with finely preserved frescoes of mythological scenes, the site said on Thursday.
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The dwelling, called the House of Phaedra after the mythological queen of Athens who features in one of its wall paintings, sheds light on changing architectural styles in the first century AD, the Pompeii archaeological park said in a statement.
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Michael Cook on the Islamic conquests, good listen:

 
I am currently reading Battle Cry of Freedom and resumed it tonight on this very page:

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Interesting bit of history that I wasn't quite aware of: collaboration between Russian-German White emigres and Nazis post-Russian Revolution who shared hatred for the Soviet Bolsheviks. I might buy the book later if it's available in my country.

White émigrés contributed politically, financially, militarily, and ideologically to National Socialism. This work refutes the notion that Nazism developed as a peculiarly German phenomenon: it arose primarily from the cooperation between völkisch (nationalist/racist) Germans and vengeful White émigrés.

From 1920–1923, Adolf Hitler collaborated with a conspiratorial far right German-White émigré organization, Aufbau (Reconstruction). Aufbau allied with Nazis to overthrow the German government and Bolshevik rule through terrorism and military-paramilitary schemes. This organization's warnings of the monstrous 'Jewish Bolshevik' peril helped to inspire Hitler to launch an invasion of the Soviet Union and to initiate the mass murder of European Jews.

This book uses extensive archival materials from Germany and Russia, including recently declassified documents, and will prove invaluable reading for anyone interested in the international roots of National Socialism.
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/book...444F536ADB1E9C9F7F86928F9BA#fndtn-information
 
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VorZakone said:
Interesting bit of history that I wasn't quite aware of: collaboration between Russian-German White emigres and Nazis post-Russian Revolution who shared hatred for the Soviet Bolsheviks. I might buy the book later if it's available in my country.


https://www.cambridge.org/core/book...444F536ADB1E9C9F7F86928F9BA#fndtn-information
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Really interesting and makes loads of sense, as Russia Germans today are the group with the highest voting shares for the AfD, I think.
 
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