I can't find accurate data on this. I assumed that the Berlin wall seperated West Berlin from the rest of East Germany, because East Berlin itself is also East Germany and thus doesn't need a wall to seperate it from the rest of East Germany.

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My understanding is that salt was, at one time, rather dear. How did it go from this to the single most common seasoning in the West?

He could’ve easily won the war if it weren’t for this campaign (although it was successful at first).

I have done extensive research on Ataturk and his role in the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocides. There does not seem to be any direct orders from him to exterminate the Armenians, Greeks, or Assyrians but so many of them died during the Turkish War of Independence. How did he not know about it? Did he try to do anything to stop it?

I tried Gorbachev: His Life and Times, but it was too granular for me. I am looking for a good intro book to enter the subject. TIA

I understand during World War II most vessels of certain size range were conscripted into service for the Navy, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine but I haven't found anything on what Civilians did during this time period. With what was left that wasn't taken into service did people still go sailing off the Coasts in the US with sailboats or other Yachts for fun or was this not allowed due to enemy presence in our waters? What else were normal civilians barred from doing during the war?

I Am curious as to why the Korean War does not seem to get the same attention as the Vietnam War, ww2 etc, I cannot recall ever seeing a movie based on it, and have little to no knowledge on the subject as it was not covered by my history classes in school?

not just as a consultant but kinda "boots on the ground"

He kept a log of the 32 missions he flew in 1944 and I wrote them down, I just don't know anything else about his time in Europe.

I’ve been listening to the “Civil War, 1861-1865: A History Podcast” and a frequent theme is how battles have to stop by nightfall.

We know that flares existed during the American Civil War, and were at least in use by the US Navy. If that is the case, and other technologies (such as recon balloons, etc...) were being used on the battlefields. Why weren’t flares utilized by artillery units to illuminate battlefields or enemy encampments during nighttime? From what I can gather, flares weren’t used for battlefield illumination until World War I. Why was this the case?

And who were they?

I am talking about people in prison for making, selling or possessing alcohol, not for that as well as other crimes.

I mean sure, many of them may have been Jews before becoming communists, but that means that they were then atheist. A few of these Tsars have bad memories of their fathers or grandfathers being killed by communists and takes it out on the Jews.

Now I know that the Napoleonic law against antisemitism never reached Russia, so Russia has hated the Jews more than anyone for centuries, but it still doesn't play in to why they think Communists practice Judaism; unless they didn't really understand what communism was. Did they think of Jews as a people and not a faith in this manner?

What were its strategic interests? It seems like it was a local/regional conflict, or was GB pulled in by alliance commitments?

Pretty much what it says in the title, I think this question complies with the rules. I'm most interested in the chattel slave trade and its political reception in Ireland, but am also interested in any other types of slavery on the isle if they faced political opposition.

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In the period all the way between the second and fifth party systems in US history (a period spanning well over 100 years), South Carolina consistently appears to be one of, if not the most strongly opposed state towards civil rights and federal government power. Evidence of South Carolina's very conservative, states right bent includes:

South Carolina was the last state to select its presidential electors by popular vote, not doing so until after the civil war;

South Carolina was the state where the nullification crisis began;

South Carolina was the first state to secede in the lead up to the American civil war, and of course the Battle of Fort Sumter occurred in South Carolina.

Even in the latter part of the period I've described (say in the fifth party system), you see figures from South Carolina such as Strom Thurmond who were very popular in the state and were amongst the most conservative of all federal politicians.

My question is; what factors made South Carolina's culture and politics behave this way during this period?

Hello,

I wanted to find a book about postwar period and I found out that Tony Jutd book "Postwar" is among the most highly rated history books there is. The book reviews says that it contains mostly dry facts but allows the reader to make their opinion themselves. So I got the book and began reading it. The intro is very good but when I began reading it further I found a paragraph that I believe is completely incorrect.

"The Soviet losses in particular include prisoners of war. The Germans captured some 5.5 million Soviet soldiers in the course of the war, three quarters of them in the first seven months following the attack on the USSR in June 1941. Of these, 3.3 million died from starvation, exposure and mistreatment in German camps—more Russians died in German prisoner-of-war camps in the years 941-45 than in all of World War One. Of the 750,000 Soviet soldiers captured when the Germans took Kiev in September 1941, just 22,000 lived to see Germany defeated. The Soviets in their turn took 3.5 million prisoners of war (German, Austrian, Romanian and Hungarian for the most part); most of them returned home after the war."

I have read a lot of books about world war 2 and I understand that Germans treated soviet prisoners of war horribly and the number of dead is immense. I am not debating that at all. However, what I have heard and read is that German prisoners of war were treated extremely horribly too and the amount of prisoners of war that died is also huge. In Beevors book about Stalingrad, there are detailed descriptions about how badly German prisoners of war were treated, and that from 100'000 prisoners of war only 6000 returned to Germany after the war. This is why I find the last sentence of the paragraph incorrect. What is your opinion on this matter?

People knew that glass magnified since the 13th century and crossbows had a decent range. Did no one ever think about using it? It sounds absurd but why wouldn't nobles or anybody try to spruce up their hunting equipment, or think about "hey I could put a telescope/magnifying glass on this crossbow and it'd be easier to shoot stuff further away."

Someone must have thought of it surely.

Hi all, I've been trying to find a historical quote, maybe someone here knows it?

I 'believe' it was a mid 20th century quote said by a politician, it went something along the lines of:

"if you want to know the strength of a country, look at its economy".

The phrasing must have been quite different, but that was in essence the theme conveyed as far as I remember, that the economy of a country was a determinant factor for the overall might of the country. Any help appreciated.