The nazi party controlled the narrative eventually, but were there any scandals that slipped out to the public and had to be handled for public relation reasons? What were they and how were they handled?

I'm doing research on what the implications would be on modern politics if Kant's 'Universal Hospitality' was successfully implemented. But a lot of articles I'm reading refer to to 'Cosmopolitan Right' rather than 'Universal Hospitality'. Do these two terms have different meanings? Or can the terms be used interchangeably?

Title pretty much sums it up. I can't really wrap my head around the idea of guys with a relatively short weapon fighting past all those lines of points in order to inflict any actual damage.

I didn't know where else to ask this question. I'm trying to compile academic and primary sources about Black Sabbath's influence in music and society. I'm also looking to see how the band was a reflection of the politics and issues of the late 60s and early 70s. I would appreciate your expertise and guidance.

Welcome to Monday Methods – our bi-weekly feature intended to highlight and present methodical, theoretical, and other concepts important to the study of history.

Today's topic is one that concerns the representation of history in mediums of popular culture: Accuracy and authenticity, what these things mean and how they are perceived.

When consuming or producing historical scholarship, we do so with the expectation of it being accurate, in the sense of it being truthful to what information can be found about its topic in the sources employed. Of course, what exactly constitutes truthfulness is often dependent on the question we ask but in general historical scholarship employs mechanisms to ensure that the information, interpretation, and conclusions presented can be checked and if necessary falsified or verified. That's why scholarship has footnotes, a bibliography and a source index. To have to cite your sources is what ensures accuracy.

Fiction on the other hand distinguishes itself from scholarship by not having to adhere to cite-able sources and the historical record. By its very definition it is free to pursue stories that can't be found in the historical record, to expand upon them and to pursue avenues and directions that historical scholarship can't.

Fiction can be authentic, meaning it can give its reader, its consumer the feel of a period but can it ever be accurate? Not so much in the sense of getting facts right but in the sense of being an accurate representation of the frame of mind and understanding of the world of historical actors? Can literature set in a medieval or other setting ever capture what e.g. The Worms and the cheese tells us about the understanding of the past world of the people that lived in it? Or can it only be authentic in painting a picture of how we think it must have been? Are the stories we tell about history in fiction really about history or only ever about our preconceived notions about that history?

Discuss below and I look forward to your answers.

They simply are just another holy order of knights that spread across Europe and then were dissolved by the Papacy due to disobedience or some other reason.

They are not all that different from the Teutonic Order, the Livonian Knights, The Knights Hospitaller etc. So what the hell is the big deal?

All you ever hear about on TV is "The Knights Templar were incredible!" "The Knights Templar found the holy grail!" "Did the Knights Templar escape to North America?"

Just a ton of garbage so why are they so heavily focused upon in comparison to more long lasting orders like the Teutonic Knights or Knight's Hospitaller?

Hey I was wondering why driving left exists. I'm currently on in a trip in New Zealand and it really fucks me up that I always look the wrong when driving or crossing the street. Hence I'd really like to know this. Since when are there rules for vehicles or people or carts or whatever has been used on roads that tell them to keep on one side? The place where this originates from is I guess England? And why, if it's common everywhere to drive on the right side, would you choose to drive on the other side and reverse everything and just complicate things? So, when, where, how and mostly why did driving on the left develop? Anyone that knows?

Not sure if this is the best subreddit for this question, tell me if it isn't.

And Thank You to anyone who answers.

On a personal note, the thought of losing my children paralyses me. During the Middle Ages, the possibility of early death was so high with little to prevent it. Were there any beliefs, superstitions or activities that helped parents deal with the loss of a child (or several children) so quickly and commonly?

We all know that the red army was less than pristine in it's human rights record in it's advnace across Eastern Europe, and most especially Germany.

My question is how did the red army treat the holocaust survivors it liberated? If one stops to think about the USSR did the most to mitigate and resist the Holocaust of all the allied powers.

Most of the Holocuast occured in Eastern Europe, and many of the partisans the USSR supported were themselves Jewish.

Once the Soviets liberated Aushwitz,Majdanek, and Treblinka.. did they treat the inmates well?

Anecdotal evidence said they did. Primo Levi, a famous holocuast survivor and historian was actually sent to a Soviet filtration camp and he had mostly positive things to say about his Soviet liberators.

Let me know when you can

Charles Lindbergh was one of the most well-known aviators in the world. After the attack on Pearl Harbor and the US entered WW2, Lindbergh sought to enlist and serve. But he was refused. Why? He was only ~40 years-old, an experienced pilot, and still young and healthy. I would have thought that he would have been allowed to at least serve as an instructor pilot. Or, at the very least, some sort of public relations officer as many other celebrities did. Why was he refused?

First off, I know this is a sensitive topic, so feel free to delete if it crosses the forum's threshold.

It's been kind of conventional wisdom that slaveowners in North America (and maybe other Anglo colonies) tried to breed the strongest slaves in a manner akin to breeding horses or dogs, Jimmy the Greek notoriously brought this up on TV and was fired. However, is there any real evidence for such practiced? I've always lived in the South, but I've never seen it mentioned in state history classes or local literature (not that I've made an exhaustive survey).

Certain Classical/historical names seem to be especially popular as baby names for minorities — thinking of the popularity of names like Hannibal after Hannibal Barca, as a famous North African historical figure. (Full disclosure, I am also thinking of the very fictional example of Marcus and Lucius Isaacson, two Jewish-American investigators from Caleb’s Carr’s novel The Alienist whose mother is explicitly stated to have named them after characters from Shakespeare.) The idea itself seems pretty straightforward (name your kids after cool famous people, especially cool famous people you feel an ethnic affinity with) and the abstract reasons aren’t really a mystery to me but I want to learn more about this as a way of engaging with history. Are there specific ways to trace this tradition through specific influences like writers/philosophers/etc. or is it just individual parents having the same idea at the same time and setting a trend?

So as the title says I'm not sure if this is the right sub to ask this question in but it seemed the most likely. I've always been kind of interested in World War II and the Nazis ideology versus the Americans and the rest of the world and want to learn more about their political system beyond the standard Nazis equal evil that I learned in school. But rather than just getting a quick overview of it I basically want to tear it apart and studied it down to its smallest pieces. Can you recommend any books? It can be old original material or new print. Obviously I'm looking for the least biased sources.

I don’t recall ever seeing any examples of graphs or other data visualizations (excluding geographic maps) pre-1900’s. Do we have any evidence of the creation and use of graphs before that? For example, would the volume of annual harvests be plotted year after year or just noted numerically?

In AoE2 the campaigns include Genghis Khan's conquest of Eurasia, Barbarossa's Crusade, Saladin's defense of the Holy Land, Joan of Arc, William Wallace, El Cid, Atilla the Hun, Montezuma of the Aztecs and Gajah Mada.