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...One of his greatest discoveries was the archaeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld, who guided the excavation of Tiryns and brought much more sense to Troy after Schliemann’s death....
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...branded him a dangerous subversive in the eyes of the tsarist authorities, who later exiled him to Yakutsk in the remotest corner of Siberia for alleged involvement in an assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander...
...Decades later, O’Donnell, wandering around Kaliningrad, comes across a monument to Alexander Marinesko, the Soviet naval officer whose submarine torpedoed the Wilhelm Gustloff....
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...The moustache indicated Prussia’s destructive Kaiser Wilhelm II. Arp’s flight from human to organic imagery was a horrified response to the first world war....
...But Hegel suggested that things usually end badly for world historical figures: “They die early like Alexander, they are murdered like Caesar; or transported to St Helena like Napoleon.”...
...The Forum, which sought to exemplify the relativism and cosmopolitanism of the travellers and scholars Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, as well as the inclusive ethos now generally articulated across...
...Then, in 1946, reigning world champion — and Soviet defector — Alexander Alekhine died in mysterious circumstances in Estoril....
...Another, Wilhelm von Gottberg, has described the Holocaust as a “myth, a dogma that is protected from all free historical research”....
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