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HITLER BUILT THE AUTOBAHN AND MUSSOLINI MADE THE TRAINS RUN ON TIME THE FICTION The Fascist dictators of Italy and Germany brought great technical reform to their respective nations; Hitler designed and built the Autobahn and Mussolini made the trains “run on time”.
THE FACT
Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1933, just over a decade after the Autobahn had initially been conceived by the Weimar Republic in the early 20’s. Hitler did, however, extend the Autobahn to the newly secured teritories in Austra and the Rhineland. Most of Italy’s infrastructure reform had been completed before Mussolini’s 1922 seizure of power, even then the trains were not as punctual as Mussolini would have you believe.
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300 SPARTANS HELD OFF THE PERSIAN ARMY AT THERMOPYLAE THE FICTION
As depicted in the 2006 cinema epic 300, King Leonidas, and a legion of just 300 men, held off Xerces and his gargantuan Persian army.
THE FACT While the movie did roughly get Persian soldiers correct, about number of soldiers keeping them passage of Thermopylae has been cinematic effect.
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The 300 Spartans were joined by around 6,000 soldiers from neighbouring city-states, who were sympathetic to the Spartan cause, it is still a very impressive feat, all things considered.
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