I remember reading in history class a number of years ago that Hitler used the fire to seize absolute power, and since then I’ve always wondered if he played a role in starting the fire to obtain power. Seems like a Hitler thing to do.

Is there any evidence of this?

I've been playing RDR2 and all the guns seem to be spitting smokeless ammo. Which is reasonable by 1899. But the majority of the guns are designed for blackpowder ammo originally. I'm wondering if that's true to life or if older cartridges that stayed in production stayed smokey.

durring WW2

This is something I've found so weird about the Cold War and it's the DDR. I have always known that Germany was divided but I didn't know it was actually 2 countries. I always assumed it was just like the political divide between the communist and democracy. Now researching more, It weird to learn it was an entire country- watching its military parade was kind of weird seeing a bit similar to the Nazis as well which since the Soviets controlled it was weird.

So My question is, why wasn't Germany's east counterpart more noticeable in hour culture or history? I mean, seriously, memes of the DDR is scarce, it's standing as a nation, and the only time its ever even brought up is when showing the economic disparity of it with rest of Germany after uniting. Why did history forget about DDR so easily? Why wasn't more done for it or why wasn't it in the news more? It went away in the 90's for god's sake. TV reference, cultural shock, newsreel, any media of any kind- it's literally like finding gold.

I feel like having a pro-communist government THAT close to European heartland should be more noticeable is all I'm saying. I mean seriously, I loved geography, but the way people talked of DDR and it was shown, it was so weirdly made out that I just assumed it was just Germany splitting into party lines by regions like the north-south USA. And even when I try to understand more about its influence and purpose, there is nothing. Like I can understand the geopolitics of Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth but A German state from 1989 is such a mystery. Like what was its government? military? economics? politics? friends? relationship with Israel? DPRK? USSR? Cuba? Germany? UN? EU?

As in did Coca Cola actually contain cocaine, and if so what was the general reaction when they did it?

Pretty self explanatory, is there data about small businesses and/or entrepreneurship around the end of prohibition?

I read a lot of history concerning battles and the casualties are almost always in the thousands after each engagement. It's probably no less than 100 million that fought and died in these historic conflicts. Morbid as this may sound, that's a lot to clean up. I do know that a lot of looters would come in and take whatever they find such as gold, jewelry, and even teeth, but armor was always heavy to carry too much of.

So what happened to all that equipment? I can't find any evidence on the internet.

Many of the arguably most atrocious war criminals both from Germany and from Japan were given immunity in exchange for the 'data' they obtained by torturing and killing their captives.

What kind of informations did the Allied expect to obtain? Are there examples where the informations actually proven to be useful? If so, how?

History teacher here. I'm about to start teaching World War 1 for the first time and I'm planning on teaching my students on the Rape of Belgium. I get that the name Rape of Belgium is partially anti German propaganda, but it got me thinking about how common it is for conquering armies to commit rape in warfare. Is this something that both sides do rather consistently or is it more dependent on the specific factions and the conflict?

Hello, are there any books that people here would recommend reading that are about the above subjects? My consumption of material on the above has fallen off in the last few years and I’d like to start reading about them as they have been historical interests of mine for a decade at the least.

Thanks in advance

Like the one we can see in the movie Troy (2004), were Aquiles defeats the giant warrior.

The first dinosaur fossils were discovered in the 19th century however I have been wondering if ancient people did find them but mistook them for something else.

I was listening to an Islamic history podcast and at one point the speaker claimed that Saladin was frustrated and jealous of how the crusader states were able to amass such a large force after the capture of Jerusalem but the Islamic world barely answered his calls for aid.

Any truth or sources on this?

Ok so I was scrolling through Wikipedia and I decided to read up on ww2, learning neat things right? And then I see freakin Croatia in the belligerents section of the axis! How did they join if they were still apart of Yugoslavia?

Was the establishment of All Saints' day at that specific time of year really a syncretistic adoption of a pagan feast? Is it actually possible to know?

(Unsure if asking for reccomendations is against rules, checked but still unsure. Delete if so)

While I know there's alot of good books on the Yugoslav wars. Are there any that focus on the sort of beginnings of the state from the Partisans V. Ustashe to the eventual dissolutions of the state. Especially one's concerning whether there were any national conflicts within the state?

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If you compare 1000 BC to 500 AD, what has really been, invented exactly? Spears, swords, shields, siege weapons, stone sculptures, pottery, papyrus, wooden building, stone buildings, bow and arrows. They all exist throughout this time period in much the same way. The list goes on. While philosophically and intellectually there were many changes, I couldn't quite see the difference if you showed me a picture of Greece in 480 BC and Ptolemaic Egypt in 48 BC.

The only major invention I can think of is Concrete by the Romans but again, I'm NO HISTORIAN, which is why I'm here, asking for a discussion. Thanks!

I'm listening to a lecture by Kenneth Vickery and he mentions that Africa in the years preceding and following the Second World War saw waves of labor strikes that were unmatched by anything before or since.

I'm curious if there are institutional reasons for why nothing comparable has happened since. Obviously economic conditions around 1940 (a very urgent need for raw materials by the Allied powers) helped shape a push for increased labor action in Africa as well as around much of the rest of the world.

But were these African strikes wildcat strikes? Led by labor unions? Did something change in the power of unions after this period? Or did decolonization significantly alter the relationship of unions and the government. Vickery is a specialist on Zambia and mentioned strikes by copper miners, if that helps to narrow an answer to one specific country.