Kategoriarkiv: Journalism

Nazi trial: 100-year-old SS guard in court in Germany

Seventy-six years after the end of World War Two, a former concentration camp guard has gone on trial for assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at Sachsenhausen near Berlin. Identified ad Josef S, because of German privacy laws, the defendant was led into a specially adapted sports hall at a prison in Brandenburg anFortsätt läsa ”Nazi trial: 100-year-old SS guard in court in Germany”

Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Facts Born: 1948, Zanzibar  Prize motivation: ”for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”

The Ottoman Empire – The Ottoman Empire | NZHistory, New Zealand history online

Few Kiwis today know much about one of our main First World War enemies, the Ottoman Empire – a sophisticated but often forgotten empire whose soldiers fought against New Zealand troops for four years in the Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine campaigns. — Läs på nzhistory.govt.nz/war/ottoman-empire

Alan Turing | Biography, Facts, & Education | Britannica

Alan Turing, British mathematician and logician, a major contributor to mathematics, cryptanalysis, computer science, and artificial intelligence. — Läs på http://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turing