Who was taking these pictures/videos? Were they documenting the events to show the horrors to the world? Were the nazis okay with this happening?

As the seat of the Roman Empire AND the foundation of state-Christianity, Constantinople must have had untold historical treasures.

Do we have any accounting of what was lost in the sack of the 4th crusade, and later the defeat by the Ottomans?

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Having read about the Western front to death I am wondering about books on the east. Specifically about the: Austrian army in the east Mackensens exploits 11th army's tale Süd army

I have no real clue where to start and I am reaching out here and wonder if anyone knows any historically sound books on these subjects? Interested even if a book might be very dry and not exciting.

After decades of imposed atheism, why is the church still so strong there? Was it an underground thing, a revival of faith, or something else?

This was inspired by an earlier post. Why is the difference between English in the 12th century and Elizabethan English so stark whilst we can quite easily read Elizabethan today?

I'm reading through an article from the Niagara Historical Society on the topic of The Battle of Fort George and there is some mention that America thought it would be easy and that many citizens in Canada would likely join the Americans should they attack.

I'm having trouble finding any explanation over this as the article itself mentions many Canadians left America and had a relatively easy time acquiring ideal farming land. Why were there so many people that were expected to defect?

In reading about the Battle of Midway and other naval encounters of the second world war, it seems that planes running out of fuel and being forced to ditch in the ocean was fairly common. However, I never see any follow up on these pilots, so I was wondering if rescue (or capture) would be the likely result, or if the vastness of the ocean, limited communications, and necessities of warfare led to these men being left to their fate.

It is easy to see how Latin travelled from Italy, through France, and into the Iberian Peninsula, but Romania is the odd one out. What are the circumstances that led to Latin spreading into Eastern Europe and persisting only in Romania (and Moldova)?

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The Nazis are often portrayed as evil beings throughout the ranks of their army, but I’m sure that the vast majority of these people thought that they were simply doing what was right for their country and victims of a very effective propaganda campaign.

Once the war was finished, thousands of soldiers would have been out of a job and those who were not senior enough to be tried for their crimes would have had to assimilate back into civilian life and live with either having carried out atrocities or at the least been part of the machine which did.

Was there any support given to try and help these individuals?

I read about a phalanx of maybe 16 ranks and I wonder if the rear ranks were really effective. Ardant du Picq in "Battle Studies" claimed that the rear ranks of a phalanx were ineffective as realistically only the two front ranks would be involved, while the rear would not push the front ranks forward but retreat if they were repulsed, thus not contributing to the fight.

Admittedly Du Picq is a very dated source, but his objections seem reasonable. Does modern scholarship disagree with this view, and if so why? Did any ancient sources comment on how many ranks a formation should have, or the effect of deep vs shallow ranks?

It's only 20-30 miles across, and the water was quite warm during the time that they were trapped, wasn't it? When they were considering the possibility that they'd only get 45 thousand men back, did they ever consider just having the men take a go at swimming across? Assuming an average swimming speed of 2 miles an hour, couldn't they have swam it in under a day, accounting for rest periods? Would the Axis even bother trying to bomb hundreds of thousands of men all spread out trying to swim across at once?

EDIT: Okay, now that I've looked it up, it looks the water can get as cold as 59 degrees F, and only as high as 65 F. 65 degrees is still pretty chilly by pool standards. Would that be cold enough to cause hypothermia if you're submerged for a day?

I'm sue we're all familiar with the stories of the conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas, and how small Spanish forces were able to defeat vastly superior numbers of native forces due to technological edges, most notably cavalry, guns, and steel armor and weapons. I'm quite aware by now that the vast bulk of Cortes' army was actually native allies, but what about Pizarro? Did he have a similar situation? How were the Spanish able to hold onto Peru despite the disparity in numbers, being far away from friendly territory, and protracted resistance? Was the technological gap just that great?

I've been watching a few ww2 documentaries recently and this is one unanswered question I want to know. The Wewelsburg Castle was the SS's headquarters and was almost completely destroyed by the SS towards the end of the war. There wasn't much left by the time the allied forces got there, but they did find a secret safe, full of secret documents. This is where it gets strange, the documentary reports that the documents and the men who retrieved them completely disappeared from history.

What were they?

I've been able to find surprisingly little information on this.

Were there significant native American/Canadian populations in every state/province? How was the population distributed in terms of density?