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/ 11 October 2006

Exhibition shows brutal truth about Nazi ‘mercy’ killings

The facts are well-known — from 1933 the Nazis murdered more than 200 000 physically and mentally disabled people, including a cousin of Adolf Hitler believed to have been schizophrenic. But it has taken more than 60 years for an exhibition to trace in detail the fate of the first victims of Hitler’s sinister "health" policies, based on his obsession with racial purity that led to the Holocaust.

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/ 22 August 2005

Unknown Vivaldi work discovered in Dresden

An Australian musicologist has identified a major choral work by Italian baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi during research at the Saxony State library in Dresden, the library announced on Monday. The piece for solo voices, choir and chamber ensemble was based on the Biblical 110 Psalm and represents the most important Vivaldi work to have been discovered in nearly a century.

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