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At its height, the British Empire was the world's most powerful empire. By 1921, the empire had enslaved roughly a quarter of the world's people and controlled nearly a quarter of the world's land area.
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Oskar Schindler was the polar opposite of a hero.
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Col. Edward Shames, the only surviving member of the World War II parachute infantry regiment known as the 'Band of Brothers,' which was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries and book of the same name, died on Friday. He was 99 years old at the time.
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On November 20, 1945, the Nuremberg Trials began and completed on October 1, 1946. Only 19 of the hundreds of thousands of Germans who committed countless war crimes and atrocities during WWII were found guilty and held accountable for their crimes.