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On what sector of the front did hundreds of Jewish soldiers fight for the forces of the Nazi coalition?

During World War II, hundreds of Jewish soldiers and officers fought for the Finnish army, which was part of the zone of influence of Nazi Germany. Finland resolutely refused to help the Nazis in "solving the Jewish question", not depriving its Jewish citizens of any rights and freedoms and mobilizing them to the front on an equal basis with ordinary Finns. Three Finnish Jews were even awarded the German Iron Cross for excellent service, but they refused to accept this promotion.

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What was Tutankhamun's curse?

There was no curse. There was an ordinary newspaper "duck".

The story of the "curse of the pharaoh" that overtook all who were present at the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun, discovered by Howard Carter in 1922, turned out to be the work of the Cairo correspondent of the Daily Express (and was later reprinted by the Daily Mail and The New York Times) .

The note spoke of a mysterious inscription, allegedly promising "fast-winged death to anyone who enters this sacred crypt."

However, in reality there is no such inscription in the tomb. The most similar in meaning equivalent is a protective spell next to the statue of Anubis, the dog-headed god who guards the tomb. But even in this spell, it is rather about the ability to resist the desert: "It is I who do not allow the sands to choke this secret chamber. I am here to protect the departed."

In anticipation of Carter's expedition, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a firm believer in black magic, had already planted the seed of a "terrible curse" in the souls and minds of the press. And when Carter's patron, Lord Carnarvon, died suddenly of a septic mosquito bite a few weeks after the tomb was opened, Maria Corelli - sensational best-selling author and Dan Brown of her time - claimed that she warned the deceased of the danger that he brought upon himself by disturbing the peace Tutankhamen.

In reality, both Conan Doyle and Corelli simply echoed a fiction that was not yet a hundred years old. The ancestor of superstition was the young English writer Jane Loudon Webb. It is her extraordinarily popular novel The Mummy (1828) that we owe the plot of a cursed tomb with a revived mummy, who intends to take revenge on everyone who dared to disturb her peace.

The fascinating theme resonated in works of all sorts - even Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, published a story about the "curse of the mummy" in 1869 - but it reached its peak with the advent of "Tutankhamun's fever".

No curses have been found in any of the ancient Egyptian tombs. In a research paper published in the British Medical Journal in 2002, it is made clear that of the twenty-six deaths allegedly caused by the "curse" of Tutankhamun, only six occurred within the first decade after the opening of the tomb, and Howard Carter himself (now who was definitely the number one target!) lived for another seventeen years.

Nevertheless, the notorious history does not want to leave the minds of mankind. In 1970, when an exhibition of objects from the famous tomb was being taken around the West, one of the guards in San Francisco complained of a sudden seizure caused by the "curse of the mummy."

A computer scan of the mummy of Tutankhamun in 2005 showed that the nineteen-year-old pharaoh was a thin young man with a height of 1 m 70 cm with a foolish bite. Apparently, Tutankhamen was not killed by his brother, as previously thought, but died from blood poisoning due to an open fracture of the leg.

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