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The short answer: there is no reliable evidence in the provided reporting that the exact phrase “One of ours, all of yours” was a documented, verbatim slogan used by Nazi officials, and several of the...
Donald J. Trump has been married three times: to Ivana Zelníčková (Ivana Trump) from 1977–1992, to Marla Maples from 1993–1999, and to Melania Knauss (Melania Trump) since 2005 . Each spouse brought a...
The first Summer Olympics after World War II were the 1948 London Games (29 July–14 August 1948), sometimes called the “Austerity Games” . The United States led the medal table and won the most golds ...
A member of Congress must serve at least five years to be eligible for any retirement annuity, and different rules apply depending on whether they’re in CSRS or FERS and on when they were first covere...
Members of Congress’ pensions are calculated using the same basic “salary base × accrual rate × years of service” formula used for federal employees, with the high‑3 average salary as the salary base ...
Ivana Trump was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1988; contemporary reporting and multiple fact‑checks repeat that date and note she lived in the United States for roughly a decade before naturalizati...
Between 1933 and 1939 the global Jewish population peaked near 16.6 million, while Europe alone held about 9.5 million Jews in 1933—more than 60% of world Jewry—concentrated heavily in Eastern Europe ...
Ivana Trump was not a U.S. citizen during the early years of her marriage to Donald Trump; multiple contemporary records and later reporting state she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1988 . FBI a...
From 1925 onward the Soviet Union and, after 1991, the Russian Federation conducted overt military invasions, occupations or annexations of multiple countries and territories including Afghanistan , C...
Robert Maxwell was born Ján/Ludvík (variants recorded) Hoch in 1923 in then‑Czechoslovakia and legally changed his name to Ian Robert Maxwell after naturalisation; his birth name was repeatedly invoke...
Adolf Hitler, as the leader of Nazi Germany, committed profound wrongs by orchestrating the Holocaust, which systematically murdered six million Jews and millions of others, and by initiating World Wa...
Donald Trump’s family history supports the central elements of the statement: he is , he is , and he has been , with two of his three wives born abroad. Contemporary biographical records and reporting...
Federal civilian pay for 2026 is unsettled in public reporting: several outlets report President Trump submitted an Alternative Pay Plan proposing a 1% across‑the‑board GS raise and a 3.8% boost for s...
Ivana Trump left Czechoslovakia and moved through Austria and Canada before arriving in the United States in the mid-1970s, gained lawful permanent resident status after her move to North America, and...
Germany at the turn of the 20th century was an industrializing imperial power under Kaiser Wilhelm II, by 1914 an urbanized, militarized great power headed into total war, by 1939 a totalitarian state...
Ivana Trump became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1988, after immigrating from then‑Communist Czechoslovakia, living in Canada in the early 1970s and moving to the United States in the mid‑1970s . Publ...
Communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed in 1989 after a cascade of mass protests, negotiated transfers of power, and political openings that began in Poland and spread across the region; key pro...
Ivana Trump’s pre-1977 résumé consistently lists her as a , , and , with additional claims that she studied physical education and worked in Canada while improving her English; sources disagree on som...
The annihilation of Lidice on 10 June 1942 was seized by the Allies as a vivid, almost indisputable exemplar of Nazi brutality and used repeatedly in wartime publicity and in postwar prosecutions; Naz...
The man born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch did serve in wartime roles and later adopted Ian/Robert Maxwell after a series of name changes; contemporary reporting and later biographies tie those name ...