Asking due to this taking precedent in the political sphere in the US. Genuinely curious. I hear/see a lot of gun activists citing WW2 Germany and post WW2 Cuba as examples of what happens when "gun reform goes bad".

Sorry if this isn't allowed, but I have to do a presentation on a single chapter of a book dealing with either of these topics. I'm much interested in when the monarchy still existed in France, so I'm not as much into those periods.

I think I'd find something about Talleyrand interesting, or Robespierre.

Does anyone have any suggestions?? Thanks so much for any help!!

I'm a german myself, so I hope you can understand my question as I'm not a native speaker. To elaborate: obviously there were orphans back then, but how did german regulations treat them?

I.e.:

kid 1 looks aryan (blonde, blue eyes, ...) so it's german

kid 2 looks not aryan (curly hair, brown eyed, ...) so it's not 100% german?

Thank you very much

Edit: I think my title isn't specific enough. I mean babys that were found without indicators of who their parents are.

Couldnt Hitler simply have encircled Stalingrad and continue the push threw to the Urals? What forced Hitler to capture the city other than its propaganda value?

I found it interesting how some articles credit the former Vice President of Marketing for AT&T with writing Truman's statement. However, the sources that I have found are iffy, to say the least...

Can anyone validate this claim?

After reading about the Mediterranean trade empires of Venice and Genoa, it seemed weird that neither of those nations would push for an opportunity of a new revenue source, and to further the fiscal benefits I imagine they’d already be getting from their existing Mediterranean colonies. Would the fact that both states already had embraced a form of colonialism for centuries prior to the start of new world exploration not have already given them an advantage in setting up new cities or trading posts?

Specifically how did they go from fighting constant wars in the middle ages and enlightenment, to begin firm allies in the 1900s?

Was the Adolf mustache a common or popular facial hair style before WW2?

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Do we know of many examples of this? Is there any context or explanation for similar phenomena?

The French had built up Maginot Line, and the Germans had bypassed French defenses and attacked through Belgium at the start of the First World War. Why did the Belgium border not have more deterrents in place against Germany?

So my dad just told me about an old scroll that has apparently been in the family for quite some time. As to how long neither of us are sure. He hasn’t seen it since he was a kid and only remembers that it had very old portraits in it (pastel/chalk/some other type of paint perhaps?). We will be getting it from his dad around the 6th of April so I’ll be able to post some pictures here as well (bear with me I’m still getting the whole use of reddit down). Any possible information would be useful, even with the very little info given.

It seems that anytime anyone mentions members of the WWII German military, they are always referred to as Nazis. Surely not every soldier subscribed to Nazi ideology. I can't imagine that the old men and the teenagers who were conscripted near the end of the war actually cared about Nazism. Yet, the German military is collectively recalled as "Nazis."

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There are a lot of historical discussions about colonialism, guilt, reparations and consequences. But not much speaking about the positive benefits for the colonizer (morality aside, obviously).

So, from a purely economic perspective, was the occupation of Ireland profitable? Considering how many rebellions, revolutions and how much administrative and military effort had to be expended managing the colony, was it worth it for economic reasons?

Or were there other reasons that made it worth it?

More generally, was the European Colonial Horrific Dystopian Nightmare for Centuries (aka the age of exploration) worth it? From a purely economic stand point.

Morally it was obvious a real dick move.

I've been doing some light research on the Vietnam war lately and I'm not coming to a good answer on why the US felt it was so necessary to get involved. I see many places citing a domino effect of communism, and that the US figured that if Vietnam fell many other countries in the region would also fall to communism soon after. Why was it so important to stop the spread of communism in other countries?

Cause i know a lot of people are dumb enough to think americans are only from United States. Do you use another name to americans or just say "Americans from American Continent"?