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A newly discovered recording of a dying Nazi official could help answer one of the most debated questions about the Holocaust: Did Adolf Hitler personally give the order to kill Europe’s Jews?
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Lieutenant General DS Rana, Director General of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), has been removed from his post and reassigned to the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands in what experts describe as
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