Strasserism is a strand of Nazism but it seems to have more in common with communism and socialism, even its racial policy is based on ideas of rejecting capitalism rather than eugenics. So would it be consider a far-left ideology?

Was it serious at all? Many argue that the invasion was merely just a small series of raids on coastal towns.

Follow up question: how did the veteran treatment compare to those returning after World War One?

I’ve been watching a few docu-series on the political nature of the National Socialist party and it seems that most of their brain washing of the German people relied on propaganda and false information. My question really has to do with the earlier figureheads of the party and their Aryan belief system. Did they have any factual grounds to believe that “lesser races” had corrupted and infiltrated their government and way of life? Or was it a sense of social misinformation of that day and age? Was anti-semitism a popular notion among German people of the time? Why?

“They” wrote the letter in 1299 and Finlay’s source is Friedrich Bunge’s Liv-, esth- und curländisches Urkundenbuch nebst Regesten, p. 180.

Let’s say that your tank’s tracks were snapped, your gun was broken and you could not fire, your turret was jammed and could not move, your engine had holes in it, or something else.

Would the crew attempt to repair the tank after it was safe, would it be abandoned, would it be taken back to base to be repaired? What type of damages could be repaired by just the crew of any on the battlefield?

How would different things be repaired? Could the crew repair more complex things like engines?

What about holes? Could the crew weld a piece of metal to cover them up or something?

Is the repair process similar between countries? Has is remained the same from World War II to today?

Also, what would the crew do if they did have to leave their tank? Would they be able to go back to base and get a new one eventually?

Hello historians, thanks for reading and I hope this is ok here. I'm doing research for my partner's family and his great grandfather has a mysterious background based in the Redbone settlement that developed in the Sabine area of the Louisiana Neutral Zone.

The neutral zone was a strip of Louisiana owned by neither the US nor Spain, and as a result became a No Man's Land. President John Quincy Adams called it "America's back door" because after the abolition of slave importation, slave ships came there. Outlaws, runaway slaves and anyone running from something came there. It was truly a Wild West sort of environment and feuds, murders, duels and shoot outs were common place even after the land became part of Louisiana officially.

One of the peoples to settle there were called Redbones - ethnically mixed people that are considered to likely be white European, African and native American, though at the time they claimed none of those. They were an insulated community that were considered warrior like. They frequently fought among themselves but would band together to protect each other from outside influence. There were famous feuds involving them, including one day long shoot out that was instigated by a white man approaching a Redbone girl.

My spouse's great grandfather lived in this area and from everything we are finding, his mother was a Redbone and his father was a white man. The family story is that the mother was murdered by the Klan, but that may have mutated over the years.

I've been working on this for awhile and feel like I've reached an impasse for official records. There's no record of this murder, or where his great grandfather was raised. I know this is a long shot but I feel like my best bet is someone maybe local, or who has studied this area and /or the Redbones. Thanks for reading.

Just to be clear, even if a reason was required, I don’t think that justifies what happened. I would assume that the reasons given were not legitimate. I’m just curious about the process, and whether a “reason” was even required.

In the game age of empires 2, there is a civilisation called the Teutons. Their unit is the Teutonic knight which is from the Teutonic order. After some research, apparently the Teutons were a Germanic tribe documented by the Romans. Is there any link beside the name?

I am seeing a pattern where a group of previously seen as harmless and undeveloped tribes very suddenly become more or less united and such a force that they conquer a large part of the world in a very short time.

The three examples that came to my mind are Germans conquering Europe, the Arabs conquering the Middle East and North Africa, and the Mongols conquering the Eurasian steppe. I also thought about the Indo-Europeans and Slavs, but am not knowledgeable enough about the subject to draw any parallels.

So is there an actual pattern or mechanism that causes this or am I just overthinking it?

My friend and I recently had a dispute. He says that the lives of the Irish immigrants in America during the potato famine were worse than the lives of African American slaves. Is he right or wrong?

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In an episode of “Band of Brothers”, a character is trapped in German-controlled territory and hides out in a farm. There is a scene where he opens what seems to be a compartment on the stock of his rifle and take out something to eat (it always looked like a sausage to me). Were rations like that hidden in gunstocks? And what were they?

From what I understand the forces that fought the Aztec and besieged Tenochtitlan were mostly composed of rebellious vassals of the Aztec, with only a small amount of Spanish soldiers. Once the Aztec were defeated, how did the Spanish go about defeating the rest of the Mexican tribes?