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Ewald von Kleist was among the three German field marshals, after the war held in Soviet captivity. But he only was destined to die in the USSR – in the walls of the famous Vladimir Central.

After the Second World war and the Nuremberg trials many of the executioners of the SS escaped punishment. Among fugitive of justice — the warden of a female concentration camp Elfriede Huth, who settled in the United States.[C-BLOCK]

The famous historian Boris Sokolov no wonder calls circumstances of death of the wife of Nikolai Yezhov mysterious. According to the official version, Eugene Hawtin died voluntarily. Shortly before this she had received from his wife the statue, which, under the assumptions of another historian Nikita Petrov, became a kind of prearranged signal the need to commit suicide.

In may 1940, directly from the street disappeared, the wife of Grigory Kulik. Commander filed for the loss of his wife, but she was never found. Only in the early 1950-ies became aware of what happened with Kira Kulik-Simonic. It turned out that she was kidnapped and then murdered on the orders of Joseph Stalin.

The administrative, transport and cultural center of East Prussia – the city of Konigsberg was considered in Germany and in the USSR, the symbol of German power, aimed at the East. The capture of Koenigsberg Stalin attached importance, inferior, perhaps, only the value of the capture of Berlin.

Self-proclaimed "big boss" Guillaume Carle tricked a young teenager into having sex with his own girlfriend three decades ago. A jury took just a few hours to find him guilty on the whole line last week, at the end...

Due to the WWF to spread the images of the glaciers of Pitztal, in Austria, are related to maintenance operations. The environmental organization claimed the fact that the ice is destroyed to make the ski area bigger, but this...

During the Cold war, Soviet nuclear submarines were under constant surveillance and anti-submarine forces of NATO. It is quite usual for the Russian submarine "maneuver to evade surveillance" Western colleagues dubbed the Crazy Ivan (translated as "crazy Ivan", "crazy Ivan" or "Ivan the Fool"). Under this name the maneuver and NATO appears in textbooks on naval tactics.

Night in October 1948 in the capital of the Turkmen SSR was one of the worst disasters in the history of mankind. The fact that the earthquake happened at night, resulted in a huge number of victims. That is why several decades, the tragedy was kept secret.

During the Second world war in different countries of the Germans was called by different names. The Russians called them Krauts, at least Hans. Probably because it was one of the most common male names in Germany. As written in the book "men at war" or the memoir, "Behind enemy lines" the soldiers of other countries called the Germans quite differently.