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Élisabeth de Rothschild (1902–1945) [1] [2] [3]– the only person from the famous Rothschild family who was murdered by German Nazis. According to one version, the woman was thrown alive into a crematorium oven in the KL Ravensbrück [4].
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It is worth noting here that four women couriers from the SOE French Section were executed using the same method on July 6, 1944, in the KL Natzweiler-Struthof [5].
@RonFilipkowski @SenThomTillis @SenJoniErnst 1).
„The Pentagon is in »total chaos« and @SecDef @PeteHegseth is unlikely to remain in his role, according to its former top spokesperson, who painted a scene of dysfunction, backstabbing and continuous missteps at the highest levels of the department.
@RonFilipkowski @SenThomTillis @SenJoniErnst @SecDef @PeteHegseth 2).
»The building is in disarray under Hegseth’s leadership«, John Ullyot wrote Sunday in a @politico Magazine opinion piece [1]. «The dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president – who deserves better from his senior leadership« [2].”
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„ @SecDef @PeteHegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.
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Some of those people said that the information Mr. Hegseth shared on the Signal chat included the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen
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– essentially the same attack plans that he shared on a separate Signal chat the same day that mistakenly included the editor of @TheAtlantic.”
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„ @realDonaldTrump's negotiator Steve Witkoff, after his latest meeting with Putin, waxed enthusiastic about the prospects for a »permanent peace«, but also made it clear that beyond »these so-called five territories…there’s so much more to it…
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There’s a security protocol, no @NATO, NATO’s Article 5…There are a lot of details attached to this complicated situation«.
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This, after all, may be the Kremlin’s real goal: not just chewing away a fifth of Ukraine and imposing limits on the sovereignty of the rest of the country,
@DanielHegedus82 @RG_Horvath @McFaul 1).
„Nixon could hypothesize about a reconciliation because Mao Zedong, China’s leader, was interested in the same.
@DanielHegedus82 @RG_Horvath @McFaul 2).
Although Washington remained suspicious that Beijing and Moscow were secretly coordinating, in reality the Sino-Soviet alliance had been over since the late 1950s after sharp differences arose between Mao and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
@DanielHegedus82 @RG_Horvath @McFaul 3).
By the late 1960s, China and the Soviet Union were practically at war: the combat at their northeast border around Zhenbao Island, located in the river that separated the two states, got so intense that Mao even evacuated political leaders from Beijing in August 1969.
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„The British government, at war with Napoleon, regarded the Luddites as Jacobin insurrectionists and responded with brutal suppression. But this reaction stemmed from a fundamental misinterpretation.
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Far from being revolutionary, Luddism was a defensive response to the industrial capitalism that was threatening skilled workers’ livelihoods. The Luddites weren’t mindless opponents of technology but had a clear logic to their actions – an essentially conservative one.
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Since they had no political representation – until 1867, the British voting franchise excluded the vast majority – they concluded that violent protest was their only option.
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„Carlin Casey first considered the idea of human starvation when he was seven years old. Back then, in 1992, his mother, Mary, read aloud to him and his little sister, Karina, from an unusual bedtime story, Anne Frank’s »Diary of a Young Girl«.
2) The family led a life of relative abundance. At their pueblo-style home in California’s Coachella Valley, Mary blasted Madonna in the kitchen as she made her kids burgers or big plates of spaghetti, lighting candles and burning essential oils (»for the vibes«, Carlin told me)
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Curled up in bed, listening to his mother describe Anne Frank’s privations, Carlin wondered, what was it like to experience a hunger so cutting?