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I ask this because Spain basically cuts off Portugal from the rest of Europe cornering them on the coast which would seemingly make them an easy target.

I was reading Deborah Lipstadt's book Denial recently and in chapter 1 she talks about working with an Israeli organization working to immigrate Jews living in the Soviet Union to Israel. While meeting Jews in the Soviet Union she described the portrayal of the Holocaust in Soviet History books like this; "The Soviet version of the Holocaust depicted the event as an assault by fascists on communists, not by Germans on Jews." [1] What I'm wondering is how much of that description is true? I don't have any reason not to trust Dr. Lipstadt, but I want to confirm is for myself. If it was (or still is) the way she described it, than The Soviet Union's (Russia's) official position on the Holocaust is borderline Denialist itself.

Anyways, if it is true can anybody name me some Soviet texts, (preferably translated into English) that do describe it this way?

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[1] Deborah Lipstadt, Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), pg. 12

I read that while only representing fraction of the USN's resources submarines ended up sinking large parts of the Japanese fleet. While on the inverse Nazi U-boots were near suicidal for their crews and did very limited damage against the allies.

It sounds kinda weird when I put it in a question, but we’ve all felt static shocks before and we all understand the science behind it now. What would people think static electricity was before there was an official, scientific answer? Would it have been considered black magic or something?

When America declared its independence from Britain, it took many years of convincing the nation to unify behind a single government. However, when the CSA declared its independence from The Union, it took just a few months to ratify a constitution and a year to create a government with legislature and president that saw legitimacy from most southerners. How did The Confederacy create a government so much quicker than The United States?

It seems like a lot of the islands history had multiple factions fighting over control of the island, with Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Bretons all having chunks at the same time, Roman's fighting Celts, and even France at one point.

I've read that there were widespread protest around UK with people asking for their loved ones remains to be returned, but no matter how many protested, the Government decided to establish a policy in the whole of the Empire that the bodies will not be repatriated.

I'm aware that there was a ban on repatriation in France in effect from 1919 to 1922 but that didn't stop Americans from fighting and eventually returning a big number of their dead.

The prompt is "Did nationalist movements reframe relations between women and men?" So far I have read S Geiger's TANU Women, a chapter from P. Obeng's Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa, and Londsdale's KAU Cultures. Journal Articles are preferable.

Hello I was wondering about the origins of the garden gnome. Where did they come from and why? Are they for protection or for good luck? How did they become popular?

How did the Nazis evolve their anti Semitic law making to be more “extreme” also how large of a role did the war play in the holocaust ?

I grew up Episcopalian in a family of book nerds and history dorks, so I always felt like I had a decent grounding in the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther's 95 Theses, the Diet of Worms, Henry VIII wanted a divorce (my education on this may have been more Anglican-centric than necessary), Calvin, Zwingli, the Puritans, the Huguenots, everyone getting into religious wars left and right, the Treaty of Westphalia, Scottish rebels refusing to use the Book Of Common Prayer, etc etc etc.

However, I keep running into things that make me think I don't know as much about it as I'd like. First was the Hardcore History episode on the Munster Rebellion with way more emphasis on ANARCHY IN THE STREETS and RADICAL ANABAPTISTS OUT OF CONTROL with no firm grounding (as far as I remember?) in how Protestantism started and how things escalated to that point. More recently, I've been reading the historical novel In The Company Of The Courtesan, which has as its inciting incident the 1527 sack of Rome by apparently Lutheran soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire but isn't strictly about Protestantism at all. (It's about 16th century Venetian courtesans.)

Is there a good entry level history of the Protestant Reformation out there that will fill in some of the gaps for me? Definitely looking for history and not theology. I'd prefer popular history over an academic text my library won't have and which will cost $80.

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Or more generally in the empire?

Why is it that Quebec was still able to keep Quebecois French as the dominant language with French signs everywhere whilst Louisiana the primary language is English, with some Creole but not French to the same extent as Quebec?