I came across this post https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/e82vnm/no_nazis_were_not_pagans_or_atheists_fox_news_is/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share that I assume is in relation to Fox News trying to undermine atheists by likening them to the Nazis.
However, I feel like the statements of the post misrepresent the quite complicated relationship between the two as well.
So I was wondering if someone could elaborate a bit on this relationship. What was Hitler's position on Christianity and its teachings and how did the Churches in Germany react to the rise of Nazism?
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In a Korean show it depicts life for a court reader in the late 1700s, the court reader reads the “recently-published” and “fresh out of Europe”, “Sorrows of Young Werther” by Goethe and is fired due to the book’s unpleasing ending. Would a book such as the “Sorrows of Young Werther” find itself in Korea (or China/Japan) and translated?
How common would books from Asia/Europe be read in Europe/Asia?
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As far as I know Stalin was a very harsh dictator because of the terror and the inhumane treatment of his own countrymen and other peoples during his rule. How authoritarian was Lenin compared to Stalin?
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Everyone now remembers them as great artists, but were they seen that way then?
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In the book "The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny", a pair of academics claim that about every 80 years, the U.S. has a war that's a major turning point in its history: The Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War 2, and whatever will happen 80 years after World War 2.
From the book summary of The Fourth Turning, here's the 4-generation cycle:
First comes a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order takes root after the old has been swept away. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion against the now-established order. Then comes an Unraveling, an increasingly troubled era in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history.
Do other countries with longer histories follow a similar pattern? Is it a useful model?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory
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I'm in my last year of secondary school doing a research project on how food rationing was done during the second world war and what soldiers had to eat (specifically UK, US, AUS, NZ, or CAN). It's due in a week and I have found very little information on this topic. Does anyone have any information on this or can offer any links to articles that offer information? It would be greatly appreciated <3
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Like in the movie “Enemy at the Gates” where conscripts are immediately thrust into Stalingrad
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I have researched and learn a lot about English history, after 1066. However I know almost nothing about the history of the Angelo Saxon kingdoms, I would like to learn more about Angelo Saxon England. Can anyone recommend any factual books and documentaries on the subject?
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I know that Bohemia became part of the Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages and have been wondering why Poland didn't become part of the empire the way that Bohemia did, or at all.
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I'm reading Dan Jones's The Plantagenets. Jones mentions in two parenthetical asides that Richard I has been suggested to have been gay but that this theory has been rejected without going further into detail.
Where do these theories come from?
What does Jones mean that they have been rejected?
What criticism has Jones's work received and what biases should I be aware of while reading his books. I am thoroughly enjoying The Plantagenets and plan on reading some of Jones's other work.
Thank you.
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So my girlfriend is an aspiring history teacher, currently doing an internship, and recently held a lesson on kings and monarchs. This also included Louis XIV...and one of the students asked exactly the question from the title - and we have no idea what the answer would be. Does anyone have any idea how much time that would have taken? Or how long a painter would need for such a painting in general?
Thanks in advance!
For reference, the portrait in question: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg#/media/File:Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg
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https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate
If you do ctrl+f and go to 'Birth Rates Around the World' and change the plotted countries to East/West Germany, you'll find that both countries have a similar trend line, apart from 1954, where East's birth rate increased by around 30 kids per thousand people. It's such a dramatic spike, but I don't understand why?
At first I thought perhaps celebrating the 1954 world cup won by Germany, but I doubt it as it was in the same year as the demography change, and West Germany did not see a spike.
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On VictorianLondon.Org there's a section devoted to wages for various occupations. Among those listed are washers (would that be the same as a laundress?), ironers, collar ironers, women matchbox maker's at home, women upholsters, seamstresses, tailoresses, female shop assistants, teachers, and female telegraph clerks. These references, however, are from later in the 19th century--from the late 1860s to the 1890s. Would employment opportunities have been largely the same in the 1840s? Was governessing or being a paid companion the best an impoverished single woman of the middle class could hope for, if she couldn't marry or had no desire to marry?
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Were they largely similar to the western counterparts of their era? By Russia I mean roughly the regions of and around Muscovy that eventually constituted the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian empire.
Every attempt I've made to learn about Russian swords had been invariably met with shashka this and шашка that, which I understand wasn't adopted from the Cossacks until much later, and was mostly if not entirely a calvary weapon in any case that I suspect wasn't commonly in the hands of citizens, nobles and soldiers during the time of the empire and certainly not the tsardom, but please correct me if I'm wrong!
Please do pardon my historical illiteracy here, thanks for any information one can provide!
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I thought that Charlemagne lived in an age where authority had to be earned first in battle instead of simply inherited. I keep reading about how he gained power through various decrees that he made. How did he hold that authority in the first place? Why was there already so much legitimacy placed in his succession to his rule over his territory?
warhistoryonline.com/medieval/charlemagne-conquered-half-europe.html
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Hello historians! I'm having a bit of a conundrum. I have been trying to look into the history of the land my childhood house was built on, but all my internet searches bring up age of the house and price history. I know the house was built in the 1960's but I also know there was a well that the garage was built over based on blueprints found in the house. I'm pretty sure there is more to the story but I can't figure out how to find it or where to look. Any pointers?
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