The movie is about a group of forced laborers in Poland who take shelter inside a fortified German supply bunker during an Allied air raid. The bombardment seals shut the only exit and the rubble hides the bunker. The group is forced to survive inside the bunker for 6 years, the last 4 years in total darkness.
Has there been any definite proof this supposed historical event actually happened?
I read there was a Time Magazine article about it but could not find it. The articles I did find contradicted one another and did not answer the question.

When someone gets their hand/foot,arm or leg chopped off how did they keep the wound from going bad? Were there people specialised in dealing with this? Did the person just find whatever they could to stop the bleeding? How did it progresses throughout the ages?

This is something that I have heard and read about before, but based on some quick googling, this seems to be a myth. However, could it have been true of a specific time period, location, or social class? For example, is it plausible that the landed gentry of England in the High Middle Ages acfually did consume more beer/wine than water?

Was it, like some users put it, extremely huge and valuable housing all the knowledge in the world, or was it just a normal library housing books?

Would society be super advanced if it hadn’t been destroyed or would it not make a difference?

Religion was a very important aspect to medieval Europe and many conflicts only occurred due to differences in religious beliefs. Even though the influence religion held over people at the time was very important I can’t imagine everyone believed it.

I would assume some lords “believed” whatever religion they must to continue to hold the power they had acquired from birth. I haven’t done a lot of reading on the subject however so correct me if I’m wrong.

Hello r/AskHistorians!

In an effort to stay active in the pandemic, myself and some colleagues are planning a short film that takes place largely during an understaffed, bare-bones (no pun intended) paleontology expedition to Wyoming Territory in (roughly) 1890. We'd love some help nailing down the specifics of what a small, low-budget team might have, as well as any other fun tips you might think of!

In particular, we're interested in what kind of backpacks or similar receptacles they would use to transport their equipment and findings, the tools available to them at the time for digging and extracting fossil remains, and the survival equipment they might have on hand to traverse the wilderness and camp out in field and forest.

Bonus points for pictures and external resources!

I understand that great care was taken to prevent a single individual from asserting control and becoming a tyrant, hence the separation of powers amongst the branches of government, having a bicameral legislature, etc. My question is, it seems that a single official in the Executive Branch appears to be a weak point in this system, especially if they enjoy populist support amongst both the public and the legislature (which is elected by the same public). Was there talk of having 2-3 executive ministers? And what was the thought process behind the decision they ultimately chose regarding a single executive in the Executive Branch?

Many a question can be answered here on /r/askhistorians, but sometimes a question goes unanswered or even a request for sources unheeded. Someone new to an area however wouldn't know who else to ask, or where to begin, leaving them vulnerable to finding texts which seem to be comprehensive, but in practice contains numerous errors.

Far better that we each find somewhere to begin ourselves, and consult when we've questions that are less nebulous than "What was this thing?".

I know such a common question, sorry.

So The USSR on paper were a Soviet of 15 different countries. Were the countries like East Germany, Poland, Ukraine, etc just a puppet of Russia or did they have some significant power which they could use for themselves instead of asking the Russian people?

Also how free was travelling there? Was it like modern EU where you could freely travel without passport, reside and retire in the other country or was it something else?

The list of religious leaders and tribal chief in Punjab,Sindh , Baluchistan and KPA who were rewarded by lands , stipends and titles for helping Britishers in fight against freedom fighters ( revolutionary troops) in 1857-8

So obviously the Caesars and Trajans and Hadrian of the world dominate text books- are there any influential or interesting emperors that get left out?

I imagine there were a considerable amount of business people, teachers, and other non-political Westerners from Allied countries in Japan prior to the outbreak of WW2. What happened to them? Were they arrested, monitored, or expelled?

I have just recently discovered that Lithuania and the baltic lands more in general were the last european lands to be Christianized, and I kinda... can't wrap my head around it. I can't form any kind of image in my mind when I hear "tribal pagans in 13th century Europe". So I ask: what do we know about those pagan tribes that were able to defeat a 13th century christian feudal army at the Battle of Saule? I am mainly interested in their political organization, religion and culture.

Hi there, I'm having an argument with my father who claims to have read from some history book, that the word slave came from the vikings, who introduced the word to the English, by referring to the slavs (the people), who were often their slaves. To me, his take seems old-timey and not accurate.

My understanding is that the viking word for slave was "thrall" (or some older variant of it). For me, it seems more likely that it was the English who introduced the vikings to the word slave, and not the other way around. This also would explain how in Icelandic the word for slave is still a variant of thrall, while in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian it is a variant of slave. Icelandic famously is the closest to the language vikings spoke and is more free from outside influences.

With a quick google, it seems that the word "slave" came from Latin and French to English (but no info on how it came to Scandinavian languages), while "thrall" came from German to Skandinavia and from there to English.

But is there an expert here on the matter? Is the origins of the word "slave" connected to the slavs? Did vikings enslave slavs? Did vikings use the word "slave" during their expansion to the British Isles? Did the word come from them? How and when did the word "slave" replace the word "thrall" in Skandinavia?

Did he possibly even order them?

I was watching Extra Credits’ YouTube video on the Christmas truce during World War 1, and he mentioned that even in the time leading up to that event, there were some instances where guard patrols would look the other way and not shoot every once in a while if they saw an enemy soldier out of their trench.

How common did this type of thing happen, and does anyone know of any sources I could check out about this? I’ve recently become a lot more interested in the ways enemy soldiers may have interacted with each other apart from all the violence all of us already know about.