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There is a common belief that Adolf Hitler (dictator of Germany and leader of the Nazi party) was a vegetarian. But is this true? Here are some arguments for and against that belief: For Being chancellor and dictator of Germany and leader of the Nazi party, Hitler had food- testers. In 2013, one of them, 95 year old Margot Woelk stated, during an interview with the Telegraph newspaper, that although the dishes served were delicious, she didn't remember any meat nor fish being served with them. The Nazi party laid down some very strict laws against animal cruelty, one of which outlawed boiling lobsters. However some people would argue that Hitler brushed these laws aside and enjoyed meaty dishes.  Hitler suffered bad flatulence... and so his doctors recommended a vegetarian diet to him. Whether he did become vegetarian or not is debatable. Against Hitler's own chef openly expressed his master's love of stuffed pigeon! Frequently, Hitler took injections wh...

Diary of an Archaeologist Palaeolithic sites in the Vezere Valley Vezere Valley, France Tear your hair out all you historians, the Palaeolithic era lasted over 2 million years of human activity and they did not write so there are NO books where they recorded what they did! However they did leave painted scenes in caves and a range of stone tools. Archaeologists excavate these sites and research the evidence to learn how they did live. I begin my archaeologist's diary with the earliest dated site I worked on, a Middle Palaeolithic cave shelter site at Les Eyzies du Tayac, in the Vezere region. Palaeolithic is from the Greek for old - 'palaios', and stone – 'lithic'. It was  period when humans used their skills to knap a range of tools from hammers, scrapers, axes, borers and blades, from flint,  jasper   or churt stone. It is the longest extending period in human prehistory, stretching from the earliest types of hominids in the Lower Palaeolithi...