Max Schmeling, Heavyweight Champion Caught in the Middle of Nazi Politics, Is Dead at 99
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Max Schmeling's 1938 heavyweight title bout against Joe Louis was so fraught with political and racial overtones that it was called "the undercard of World War II."
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Joe OâDonnell, who died Aug. 9, came to be described as a fraud who had claimed as his own some of the 20th centuryâs most famous images.
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The man who was Meyer Lansky's driver and bodyguard during the Mafia's heyday in pre-Revolutionary Cuba died earlier this year, a curious footnote in a communist-run country whose past as a gambling mecca for vacationing Americans is all but forgotten.
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German ex-heavyweight champ Max Schmeling dies at the age of 99.
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The man believed to have been Germany's last World War I veteran dies at the age of 107.
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Bobby Fischer, the chess champion who made a name for himself by beating the Russians then turning his back on America - and the game - has died
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Josef Schwammberger, a former Nazi labor-camp commander who was known for his particular sadism and hid for 40 years in Argentina before being captured and returned to Germany for trial, has died in a prison ...
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Billionaire industrialist Friedrich Karl Flick, whose father was convicted at Nuremburg of using slave labor in Nazi Germany, has died at the age of 79, according to news reports Friday.
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LATVIAN and NHL hockey star Sergei Zholtok died during a Belarus championship game yesterday between Dynamo Minsk and Latvia&#39;s Riga 2000.
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BERLIN - A regional branch of one of Germany's main political parties is planning a legal bid to have Adolf Hitler posthumously stripped of his German citizenship.Some 75 years after Braunschweig ...Comment
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Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died
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Austrian-born jazz legend Oscar Klein, who fled when the Nazis took power and recorded with Lionel Hampton and other greats during a career that spanned four decades, has died at the age of 76, local media reported Wednesday.
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Hitlerâs globe is missing. Wolfram Pobanz, a 68-year-old retired cartographer, is positive that itâs not the one in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, with the Russian bullet hole through Germany, and he can prove it.
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OVER the last four decades, even the casual sports fan could usually name the accepted world heavyweight champion, beginning with boxing&#39;s golden era of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George
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Former world heavyweight champion Max  Schmeling, who fought two unforgettable bouts with the great  American Joe Louis in the 1930s, has died at the age of 99.
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Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich, a Jewish religious philosopher who escaped the Nazis and became a European bridge-builder between Christians and Jews, has died at age 86.
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German historian and publisher Joachim  Fest, author of a landmark biography of Adolf Hitler, has died  aged 79, German media reported on Tuesday.