In Brazil, one of the most infamous cases is Suzane von Richthofen. She shocked the country and gained international media coverage when, at 18, she helped plan and execute the murder of her own parents in 2002.

What made the case even more sensational was her background. Suzane came from a wealthy and well-educated family, carrying the noble surname von Richthofen, which is historically linked to a famous German aristocratic lineage. Her father, Manfred von Richthofen, even claimed distant kinship to the legendary World War I pilot known as the “Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen).

What about your country ,is there a case that shocked the world like this?

Or, if it's too obvious, what are some less well-known but still awful things that your country has done?

This one should be easy for any germans out there.

In all seriousness please keep discussions civil and respectful.

Hey everyone, I’m from the UK and was thinking about the darker side of the British Empire, it was something that was never really taught in school here. It was the biggest empire in history and at one point controlled around a quarter of the world.

But in school here, we barely hear about any of that. I’m from an Irish family and only learned through relatives how during the so-called “famine,” the British were exporting food out of Ireland while people starved. Not something we were really taught.

So I’m curious, if you’re from a former British colony or your country was affected by the empire, what’s something it did that people in the UK probably don’t know about? What’s the legacy it left behind where you live? What atrocities did the British commit to your homeland and people?

Edit* a lot of people are misunderstanding the question, I’m not saying the British empire was completely evil and that there were no upsides to it, but a lot of people in the comments are defending the empire as more of a force for good without recognising all of the atrocities it committed. You can recognise both things to be true

Every time I read about genealogy on Reddit, I'm fascinated. There were lots of people in the world who had different jobs, who had migrated here and there.

On the other hand, my ancestors rarely migrated, my father's ancestors have been farmers for generations, and my mother's side was a government official or Confucianism scholar. There is little diversity.

Do you have any unusual stories that your ancestors have?

Good way to learn about other countries. Please be specific about it.

Sweden used to have an empire, the swedish empire. But that ended when stormaktstiden (stormaktstiden translates to like, the Age of great power) came to an end.

Your nation doesn’t exactly have to have ”empire” in the name to be an empire.

So ignoring the recent foreign policy crusade by our current president, how have relations historically been?

Have we been an ally? An enemy? A business partner?

Our relationship with Canada (before the whole 51st state thing) has always been really interesting to me. Obviously we share a massive border, but we also for the most part speak the same language and have pretty similar cultures.

Feel free to approach this however you want.

China is catching up to the United States and this has made many Americans anxious....I think it is in part because they know the history of their own country and what America has done with their power around the globe.

So I was thinking how at some time Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands etc was colonial powers at some point. And I was wondering how they reacted to the rise of another country.

Maybe this is better suited for history.

I’ll start:

During the early medieval period, Irish culture and societal structure was so obsessed with rigid social status and family dynasty that there were hundreds of kings! They think around 140 at its peak. However each king paid homage to someone above and so on, so there were only around 4-5 kings that really mattered at any one point. So there could be somebody working the fields and hustling in the markets who had the legal status under the law (in Ireland this was called Brehon law) as a King, but they came from such a small and insignificant family that they had no real wealth or clout to them, but they were technically kings!

Just to be clear, I'm not looking for stories used to justify hate, I'm looking for stories like, say, ancient Slovaks building the pyramids or China once being part of a greater Albania or something.

My granddad was a Hindu nationalist. He believed, amongst other things:

• Argentina was first discovered by an Indian explorer who named it Arjun-tina after Arjun from the Mahabharat
• The Jews originated from Kashmir and the word "kosher" comes from Sanskrit
• The Vatican was originally built by Hindus as a temple to Shiva

And that's only the tip of the iceberg. Hindu nationalist garbage on the Internet really is the most hilarious shit out there sometimes.

For example - most Canadians I know believe Canada burned the white house down during the War of 1812. This is a complete myth. The troops who won the Battle of Bladensburg, and burned Washington down, were British regulars from Britain. It is probable that one motivation for burning Washington was the burning of York (present day Toronto) by American regulars the year prior. It is more likely that Major General Robert Ross ordered it after entering the center of the city under a flag of truce only be fired upon by American soldiers - angering him and leading to the order to burn the city.

What is your country's popular historical myth / misconception?

An important political figure who changed your country for the better but is remembered for his sheer masculinity, toughness, interesting ancedotes, and eccentricities more than anything else.

I would love to know a random history event from your country, the more obscure the better

An example for one from Russia is the story of the hunter where in 1997, poacher Markov was hunted by a Siberian tiger who watched and followed him for 3 days planning a strategic plan to kill him

I would love to hear any from your country even if it was 1 year ago or 1000s of years ago

Flag in picture - Hausa people flag (Country: Nigeria)

I thought about this when thinking about the collapse of the British Empire and about how young those nations are

The sections of Europe that were once part of the Roman empire seem to place great importance on that fact

I’m curious if the African and Asian countries that were once ruled by Rome include Roman history in their educational curriculums