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Or the conflicts of the Early Church, or the brutality of the state-controlled Church of the Roman Empire, or Charlemagne, or the Crusades, or colonization in America, or the Thirty Years' War, or... (lemmy.world)
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[–] Dr_Box@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Verden?wprov=sfla1

The time 4500 saxons were beheaded and thrown in a river during the Frankish forced conversion of the germanic pagans to christianity