for questions about claims based in Nazi Germany, or limited to Nazi Germany.
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Was there a nuclear explosion in Germany during WW2?
According to this article at dailymail.co.uk and this article at news.com.au a declassified document "APO 696" (purportedly in the U.S. National Archives) includes testimony that indicates a possible nuclear explosion in Germany in early October…
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Is this colour footage of Breslau in 1939 authentic?
This 7 minutes footage on youtube purports to be from 1939 in Breslau, Germany (today Wrocław, Poland). In it we can see
The banks of the Oder/Odra
A random boy cycling in the streets
Some military guys hanging out "near the border"
A boy and his…
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Did opposition fundraising stop neonazis marching?
From Facebook:
"In the small town in Germany where the Nazi leader Rudolf Hess was born, every year right wing activist[s] have been showing up to commemorate his birthday. Counter marches didn't stop them. What really got to them was when people…
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Did Joseph Goebbels say "Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty"?
The quote, "accuse the other side of that which you are guilty" is often attributed to Joseph Goebbels.
For example this meme and it also appears in me.me and memegenerator.net.
I have looked for it in the wikiquote entry about him. I have also…
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Were there any Jews among the Nazi top people?
I recently was in a discussion where one of the people, as an argument, claimed that Jews have been known to participate in activities clearly detrimental to Jews as a whole (the argument itself had nothing to do with Jews, it was merely an…
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Was the Jewish flag one of only two flags allowed in Nazi Germany?
Former London Mayor, Ken Livingstone was quoted in this tweet as saying:
in 1935 Hitler passed a law that said that only two flags could be flown in Germany: the swastika and the Zionist banner. This is not something I'm 'claiming;' this is not…
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Did Gen. Patton say "We defeated the wrong enemy?"
I've seen this quote in various far-right memes. Supposedly, Gen. George S. Patton, upon taking control of Berlin in 1945, said "We defeated the wrong enemy." The Communists, one supposes, were the right enemy. Is it an authentic quotation?
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Was the first German bombing of London an accident?
A 2002 Telegraph article reports:
The first German bombing of London on the night of Aug 24, 1940, was an accident but sparked a war of attrition that would last for five years.
German aircraft heading for a military target flew off course and…
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Did 5 million non-Jews die in the Holocaust?
Times of Israel:
“Five million non-Jews died in the Holocaust.”
It’s a statement that shows up regularly in declarations about the
Nazi era. It was implied in a Facebook post by the Israel Defense
Forces’ spokesperson’s unit last week marking…
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Did New York Times post this Hitler apology stating Jews baited the Nazis by trying to fight back on June 15, 1934?
Post from Revolution News reads,
"By hating Hitler and trying to fight back, Jews are only increasing the severity of his policies against them.
"If Jews throughout the world try to instill into the minds of Hitler and his supporters recognition…
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Was the Nazi Hakenkreuz logo based on the Indic swastika?
"Swastika" is sanskrit word for an ancient geometrical symbol, broadly used in Indic cultures. Amongst countries that were involved with World War II, it is associated with the Nazi flag, designed by Adolf Hitler, which used a stylised swastika…
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Did Polish government institutions collaborate with Nazis?
Referring to an answer to Why is Poland's proposed Holocaust speech law so controversial?
While "Poland as a nation" is not to blame for the Holocaust, and while there was no official cooperation between Poland and Germany, government institutions…
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Did George Soros say he helped a Nazi confiscate property?
George Soros is a billionaire financier of Left Wing causes and candidates, including Hillary Clinton.
Soros has been accused of being a Nazi collaborator and of funding anti-Jewish and anti-Israel groups.
In a Canada Free Press article, Jim O'Neill…
user36356
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Did Nazi Germany use the German census in its targeting of minorities
From 2016 is census year! But you can stick your census in your ear, you won't get any data here
Did you know
Hitler used the German census to target minorities
Doing a brief search came across censuses created by Nazi Germany after the country…
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Was this a fire brigade reservoir at Auschwitz?
There seems to be a lot of photo evidence suggesting that there is a "fire brigade reservoir built in the form of a swimming pool" within the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
Is it a "fire brigade reservoir", which I assume has something to do with…
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