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12 hours ago · James J. Weingartner identifies what he views as a disparity in treatment between American and German war crimes in the court martial of American soldiers and the post-war trials of Germans, arguing that United States war crimes were judged "by a more indulgent standard" than comparable German atrocities, particularly in regard to the principle ...
12 hours ago · In 1945, the Japanese ship Awa Maru, carrying 40 tons of gold, sank near the waters off Niushan Island in Fujian Province, becoming a fascinating and mysterious event.
12 hours ago · History Etymology. The name Hoboken was chosen by Colonel John Stevens when he bought land, on a part of which the city still sits. The Lenape, later called Delaware Indian tribe of Native Americans, referred to the area as the "land of the tobacco pipe", most likely to refer to the soapstone collected there to carve tobacco pipes, and used a phrase that became "Hopoghan Hackingh".
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