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Irma Grese was young, beautiful, and terrifying. This in depth historical article explores how a rural German teenager became one of the most feared female guards of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, and why her story still unsettles historians today.

On the 4th of December 1969 police stormed the Chicago apartment of 21 year old Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. Officials called it a shootout. Evidence later showed it was a planned killing, aided by an informant and shaped by FBI COINTELPRO. His legacy has shaped activism ever since.

On 8 December 1980 a cold Monday that began like any other ended in global shock. John Lennon spent the day posing for Annie Leibovitz, giving an optimistic radio interview and working on Walking On Thin Ice before returning home to the Dakota, where Mark David Chapman shot him. The loss rippled across the world, culminating in one of the largest public vigils New York had ever seen.