Nazi Germany

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The Battle of Grunwald: The Day the Teutonic Order Broke

In 1410 a Polish-Lithuanian army destroyed the Teutonic Order in one afternoon. The Order had run out of a reason to fight twenty-four years earlier.

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Myths & Legends

Externsteine: The Sacred German Rocks the Nazis Invented an Ancient Religion For

Five sandstone pillars in a German forest, declared an ancient pagan shrine by Himmler's SS — for a religion that the evidence says never existed.

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