Luftwaffe fighter pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille may have racked up 100 aerial victories during World War II, but that didn't stop him from mocking his Nazi overlords.Wikimedia CommonsHans-Joachim Marseille
During World War II, the Luftwaffe was one of the German Army’s most valuable assets. While all of the Luftwaffe pilots were potentially deadly, one stood head and shoulders above the rest: Hans-Joachim Marseille. Marseille was a quiet boy who joined the Luftwaffe as a means to curb his reckless personality and channel it into something useful. Read More...
During a debate between Japan's major political parties in October 1960, socialist leader Inejirō Asanuma was assassinated by 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi with a samurai sword.On October 12, 1960, in Tokyo, a leading politician was murdered on stage during a debate by a teenager with a samurai sword. Over 1,000 people watched on in horror from the audience, and thousands more watched from their television sets at home.
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Forget Thanos, the Black Order, Kang the Conqueror, the High Evolutionary, or all the villains from the live-action Spider-Man films pre-Marvel Cinematic Universe; no superpowered threat can compare to the onslaught that is the fandom and probe-happy journalists looking for that next accidental leak from one of the franchise’s many stars.
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