I imagine thier system was far different from our current hindu-arabic system.

Last year it came to light that my maternal grandfather was an SS guard at Auschwitz for three years. My aunt told me things she remembers and stories he told her. I have seen the personal benefits to knowing the truth. I'm now wondering if I should make any other disclosure, to a historian or some organisation.

He grew up in Lithuania and took his family to Germany when he joined the SS. At the end of the war they forged documents to say they were recent refugees from Lithuania. After living in a Red Cross camp for displaced people the family came to Australia. The name he used as an SS guard was never connected to the name he used for the rest of his life. He died in the mid 1960s.

I'm aware that I feel compelled to be truthful after so many decades of family secrets and that I may be taking it too far thinking it might be significant to anyone else.

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My parents are Ukrainian so I grew up hearing about the 40 million Ukrainians killed in the holodomor. But, over time, I heard many conflicting reports about the veracity of this claim. I have heard some say it did happen, but that the death toll was perhaps much lower than the 40 million figure. And I have recently heard it suggested that most of the severity was a nationalist myth intended to make the Soviets out to be worse than the Nazis. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Did East German intelligence give much information to reunified Germany? What about agents in the field? How were they taken care of once their country stopped existing? Were they taken care of?

Russian civil war is a topic I really like and I have read quite a few books, papers and lectures about it, but I wanted to know if there some books that a little bit more advanced on this topic?

One of the best books on this topic that I have read is Orlando Fidges book ,,A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924". It was really good, but it seriously lacked anything about how the Soviet power established itself during and after the civil war. It also lacked any information about Soviet westward offensives and politics around it and so on. I read the book a year ago but I seem to recall that it ended quite abruptly after explaining the Bolshevik coup in November. Any book that explains the events after the coup would be ideal!

Another period that I find really interesting is 1920's-1930's in the Soviet Union, but I have found only few books that concentrate on this period and they all are mostly about economical situation. A suggestion for book about politics during that period would be great!

I would like to read a neutral book about the end of the Roman Empire, not a tale about a peaceful transition downplaying the violence of the events neither a polemical essay aimed to undermined the last thirty years of academical knowledge about the period. Which book would you recommend me ? Thank you, I like this sub

I have been playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for the last 2 months and was just wondering if all shotgun blasting and revolver spinning actually happened.

The Wehrmacht had thousands of die hard supporters. Did any of them continue to wage gurreila warfare after V-day? After the First World War the freikorps came into existence, did the something like that pop up again?

From what I understand, the Empire of Brazil was a pretty powerful nation, with a developing industry, an economy based in large parts on slavery and ruled mostly by the white population descending from europeans. I was therefore wondering if the government or some other groups in the country ever considered establishing colonies in Africa?