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On a sliding scale of humaneness, I suppose. The Neo-Assyrians impaled through the chest cavity because it "humanely" killed them in seconds or minutes rather than hours or days. Then crucifixion was invented and that replaced impalement for the most part.

Reminds me of this card game where people rank awful situations and events on a pain scale and compare it to what a survey group said it was. No one is ever happy with the results on the card because they're all painful lol.

It's a wild narrative. It goes a lot deeper than just these murders, but also includes his time in prison and a reversal of fortune after these murders. Dumas basically copied most of his plot verbatim and then fleshed it out.

I did go into the podcast episode on the chances of it being a falsified narrative, but having studied this era a lot I'm convinced that at the very least the Paris Police archives had the dossier of the entire case, and that Peuchet (the archivist) was trying to piece it together when he died. The archives burned down in 1871, so we'll never have any account besides his.

E-book of English translation of his actual account.

Original French translation in the BnF archives.

on the upside, Grant lived until 61 or so having owned and run a Tobacco shop in Frisco. Sure he had issues because he got shot in the head (slight arm paralysis and cognitive issues) but he had a somewhat full life :)

Amazing what we can do under the right doctor's hands eh?

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This series is about a hero/antihero who has leprosy. Fiction but I learned a lot about the disease.

Stephen Donaldson 6 Books Thomas Covenant Series SF Fantasy Book 1-6 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0678453659/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_91Y7A0W1JRPS6N9Y574G

There's the book Death Dealer by the infamous kommandmant Rudolf Hoss himself. I'll keep looking for you.

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Dealer-Memoirs-Kommandant-Auschwitz/dp/0306806983

>Gooks

Must-read on the topic of systemic racism in the US military during the Vietnam war to dehumanize the enemy, among other Vietnam war related topics:

https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American/dp/1250045061

And ate them.

For those interested in reading more about resurrectionists we pulled our episode material from The Diary of a Resurrectionist: 1811-1812 by James Bailey. It's not much of a diary, more of like a list of receipts. The first 120ish pages are actually the history of resurrectionists and comprise the majority of the book. Easy quick read if you're not into podcasts.

Yeah dude, this is the Clean Wehrmacht myth, and it has been debunked by historians repeatedly. Read "Hitler's Army", by Omer Bartov for a succinct yet comprehensive takedown of every point you're making. Wehrmacht was not primarily conscripts, and by studying the writings of the individual soldiers, as well as all available source material, we're left with a picture where the average Wehrmacht soldier was quite aware of and supportive of the genocides they were inflicting.

You can try to argue me on this but damn near no modern historians agree with you. Sure, there were some otherwise decent folks conscripted into the Wehrmacht, but by and large these were German volunteers who genuinely believed in the cause for which they were fighting, which at the time was anti-Bolshevism.

No problem! Those books are a good first hand account of the Civil War and life for the real population leading up to the Civil War. If you want a book more about the specific war crimes, I highly recommend "Guatemala: Never Again!" By the Archdiocese of Guatemala.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/157075294X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_7R.3Fb3WMS79T

A million times yes! It is considered the seminal work on the destruction of the Native Americans, even after 50 years. It's written in a very approachable read but still highly academic. It's not a dry read by nature of the material, but it does have spells here and there of explaining what is occurring within the tribes themselves. Be warned, it gets much more graphic than this excerpt at times.

The description of Wounded Knee is only a small part of one chapter: each chapter details the relations between the American government and a single Native American tribe, so as to describe the different experiences of each tribe with the government. It covers the time span between 1860s-1890s.

It's free on Amazon Prime if you have that, and most libraries carry it. I won't link the PDF because I'm guessing there would be copyright issues, but you can easily find it with a Google search.

I read a book that had some translations of letters she wrote. Nothing murdery, just related to the management of her and her husband’s estates.

This is what happens if you lead a racism ("just gooks") driven war vs civilians. This is how spreading US freedom and democracy looks like. Disgusting.

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