I ask because I've literally heard it both ways and Google turns up results that have both basic narratives. I've seen things that said the majority of victims of the Holocaust were basically secular Jews who were largely indistinguishable from their neighbors until one day a government decided they weren't. I've also seen it said that the majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust were seriously religiously committed Orthodox Jews, who were highly visible to the Nazis, such as the people in Talmudic academies in Vilna. Which narrative is closer to what we actually know?

There's a very large number of languages that were spoken in the region, so what made Aramaic in particular attractive as a lingua franca?

I know that the Records of the Three Kingdoms has not been translated into English. However I was just wondering if there were any books/sources that are in English that cover the period historically. Please note I am not asking about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or other heavily fantasised portrayals. Just for books and such about the history of the time.

And related, can you provide suggestions for books that focus on the development of war infrastructure throughout history? Thanks!

Hey everyone, first time poster for this sub here. I'm doing coursework for the reasons of US failure in Vietnam and had the idea of accrediting communism as an ideology as one of many reasons for the North's success. My reasoning is that it went hand in hand with total war, allowed state propaganda to fuel the war effort (an issue the US famously struggled with), and stop political opposition.

I'm not sure if this is a good point to argue of not so I would love to hear your takes. Also if anyone has sources to back up their claims that would be very helpful.

How did this come to be? The Bible rarely talks about abortion, though it is accepting of it.

Communism seems to be separated from Stalinism, Leninism, Maoism, etc. But Fascism, or for the sake of the argument, other dictators don't seem to get this treatment.

There doesn't seem to be Hirohitoism, Mussolinism, Hitlerism, Husseinism. Why's that?

I heard from a, pretty unreliable, source that around the middle ages most of the human population had syphilis, and that the clothes worn by nobility were made to hide the rashes. After that, our resistance to the disease had improved because everyone not resistant had died.

Any possible truth in that?

I would think camels would have been excellent at being pack animals crossing the great plains or the deserts of the southwest. Was this ever tried? Were they too expensive? Not good for crossing mountains? Unable to handle colder weather?

Okay so I am a real lover of History especially the first and second world wars. Asthma cough is this may sound two of the more interesting areas that I've always had of the wars are the more darker and less well understood or at least less well accepted parts of the wars. For instance things like the operations that were undertaken by the British Special Operations executive or the American OSS and their various assassination plots and the like. Obviously I have studied heavily into the Holocaust of World War II. Never having actually visited any of the camps in Europe. Unfortunately I lack the necessary monetary funds to go on a trip there. However my brother-in-law has been there and has shown various things that he saw. Though at these places he said that they expressly forbid photographs and video filming. Which of course is understandable.

But anyway everyone knows about the Holocaust of World War II. But something that is not known to The Wider world or at least most of the wider world is what one could probably call the first Holocaust of the 20th century. I am of course referring to the Armenian Genocide that was perpetrated by I believe it was the van Ottoman Empire. Why is it that this terrible event doesn't seem to receive the same level of historical attention that the Holocaust of World War II gets? Heck Germany following World War has actually acknowledged the Holocaust and even gone so far as to establish a monument to the Holocaust right in the middle of their capital city of Berlin. However the government of the nation of Turkey continue to deny that the Armenian Genocide ever took place. Why is this? How is it that the Armenian Genocide seems to be so much more terrible than the Holocaust despite the fact that both were absolutely deplorable acts of human savagery?

I was reading some Reddit post (can't remember right now with r/ it was), and saw someone saying that Napoleon's army didn't freezed to death, and it wasn't even that cold (or something like that) on Russia.

My knowledge is pretty limited about those kind of stuff, since I'm from Brazil, so our major focus, sadly, is sometimes on SAM history, and the Eurasia history is a little more limited (even tho we know alot of things!)

It is my first post here, so I'd be happy if someone could clarify that to me. Thank you, and sorry about any misspelled word.

Anyone got recommendation on this?? I recently read The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport and really really like it and now is falling into a deep tunnel of curiosity on Russia's last Tsar and his family.