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There are actually quite a few of these themes involving Nazis occult methods or searching for mythological objects or objects that are associated with the occult in order to find ways where they had an advantage during WW2.

Most of Indiana Jones's films involve the Nazis as the main antagonists who are looking for mythological objects to that grant them more power against their enemies such as the Lost Ark, the Holy Grail and so on. A few video games involve this theme such as the Nazi zombies storyline in Call of Duty or Nazi Zombies in the Sniper Elite series, or in some of the Wolfenstein games. There is even a famous book called "The Spear" whose main plot is about a Neo-Nazi cult searching for the Spear of Destiny which had mystical powers.

There is a certain feeling behind this theme that the Nazis were obsessed to the point of lunacy or unethical means that they were willing to go all out and do whatever acts that deemed as necessary to be one step further than their opponents during WW2.

So how close to reality is this theme? Did the Nazis really make plans to collect these so-called "artifacts" or made military plans for unethical experiments or "mad science" experiments in order to have an advantage in WW2?

During the 50s-70s, were there attempts to purge politicians they thought had Western sympathies? Specifically, was there a spike in paranoia about Western sympathizers within Soviet leadership or did suppression of dissidents remain constant throughout the Soviet Union's existence?

Dear Historians and other interested redditors,

I'm currently in my final high school year in Germany and in order to graduate I need to present a little thesis on a historical question.

I have decided to hold my presentation about the partition of the Ottoman Empire and its consequences on political instability in the region. However, my presenting time is limited so I will have to scale down my topic by specifying my question on a certain event and its further causes (eg. Gulf War).

Can this question be debated? If yes, how could I specify it? I have considered scaling down on Iraq since one could say it is the most unstable country in the region.

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In shows and movies swords go right through the armor, but surely in real life it must have been a lot harder to kill them since nothing goes through right? How would you defeat one in combat

I assumed that it was just eldest son, but there's the business with Co-Emperors and being Porphyrogennetos.

I'm aware that the post-West Roman Empire was a very long time, about 1000 years, and that the dynasty changed sometimes, so I imagine it wasn't the same throughout the entire time.

What inspired Norse explorers to sail across open ocean, into the unknown, and settle a relatively barren rock in the frigid North Atlantic? Did the first inhabitants of the island know about it beforehand? Were there legends of a land of always winter passed down between northern european peoples?

It seems stupid to simply march your army into a choke point for any amount of men, even if you outnumber them. I know the only account we have of the war is from Greek historians, but didn’t any of his generals tell him this?

Don't know entirely if this question is allowed but in doing some searching two leading contenders seems to be the Winged Hussars of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth or the Ostrogoths.

Ostrogoths appear to match the names Theoden, Theodred, Eomer but other than that I knew very little of the Ostrogoths culture.

I like correct pronunciations and I'm fascinated with Ancient Greece so I'm just wondering if their pronunciations are reliable.

I can find a lot on the "why" and "therefore"s of when Greek metropoles sent out colonists, but not much on the "hows". Like- how many settlers would be sent to start one off? How would they get there? What did they bring (supplies, etc) and where did it come from? Are there surviving accounts?

I am a geek/nerd and would like to understand my people's history.

It's a claim I have come across, and while I don't exactly expect to see an answer which evaluates the claim relative to, you know, literally every other pre-20th century society, I am very interested in what the status of Byzantine upper-class women was in that period that would stand to give credence to that claim.