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The Stahlhelm (the German Steel Helmet) in Latin America after WWII
The Stahlhelm (the German Steel Helmet) in Latin America after WWII.
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Museum Walls proclaim fraud of Mormon Prophet (New York Times Article 1912)

"Sacred Books Claimed to have been given divinely to the first prophet [Mormon leader Joseph Smith] are shown to be taken from old Egyptian originals, their translation being a work of the imagination---what a comparison with Metropolitan Museum Treasures shows."

"Sad copies of very familiar papyrus," he said, "and a sadder, a much sadder, translation. Come upstairs with me and I will show you several pictures that duplicate the figure that the Mormon prophet says is Abraham sitting on the throne of Pharaoh. It is merely Osiris, god of the underworld.

Published: December 29, 1912
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Territorial Map: Asia Minor / Anatolia Map History (1500 BC - 2018 AD)
Roman Empire: 410 AD, Rome destroyed Italy de-populated.

"For they destroyed all the cities which they captured, especially those south of the Ionian Gulf, so completely that nothing has been left to my time to know them by, unless, indeed, it might be one tower or one gate or some such thing which chanced to remain. And they killed all the people, as many as came in their way, both old and young alike, sparing neither women nor children. Wherefore, even up to the present time Italy is sparsely populated. They also gathered as plunder all the money out of all Europe, and, most important of all, they left in Rome nothing whatever of public or private wealth when they moved on to Gaul. But I shall now tell how Alaric captured Rome."

[Rome] "..they set fire to the houses which were next to the gate,[...] and after plundering the whole city and destroying the most of the Romans, they moved on."

- Procopius of Caesarea

[note the Italians of today are not descendants of ancient Romans except only in minority]
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Are Italians Romans? 968AD: Liutprand, diplomat of Otto conversation with Emperor Nicephorus, in Constantinople

'[Nicephorus]...added as if to scoff at me: "You are not Romans but Lombards."

"The Land"
, I answered, "which you say belongs to your empire belongs, as the nationality and language of the people proves, to the kingdom of Italy. The Lombards held it in their power.."

'[..] I said in anger: "History, teaches that the fratricide Romulus, from whom also the Romans are named, was born in adultery; and that he made an asylum for himself in which he received insolvent debtors, fugitive slaves, homicides, and those who were worthy of death for their deeds. And he called to himself a certain number of such and called them Romans.
From such nobility those are descended whom you call world-rulers, that is, emperors; whom we, namely the Lombards, Saxons, Franks, Lotharingians, Bavarians, Swabians, Burgundians, so despise, that when angry, we can call our enemies nothing more scornful than Roman'
Propaganda: Napoleon and the Evil Spirit

“The Red Man stops the last efforts of the tyrant, death offering the only means of escape from his exile.” French caricature from 1815-1816. Source: Gallica – Bibliothèque nationale de France.

"Das ist mein lieber Sohn an dem ich
Wohlgefallen habe" (This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased)

"The following singular story was circulated almost immediately after the fall of Napoleon and with the credulous obtained ready belief […]The gentleman from whom this curious communication was received heard it related, with the following particulars, on the 1st of January, at Paris, where he spent the whole of the winter. Early in the morning, Napoleon shut himself up in his cabinet, bidding Count Molé, then Counsellor of State [..] remain in the next room, and to hinder any person whatever from troubling him while he was occupied in his cabinet. He had not long retired to his study when a tall man, dressed all in red, applied to Molé.."
(Story was likely propaganda)