The USSR invaded Poland on September 17th, 1939.

By September 19th, Lavrentiy Beria issued Order No. 0308, to "organize a Prisoner-of-War Administration under the NKVD USSR".

By the time this order was issued, roughly how many Polish soldiers had already surrendered to the USSR?

Ray Tomlinson created the first email program, for use with the ARPANET in the early 1970s (the first machine-to-machine electronic message apparently said something unpromising like "QWERTYUIOP").

Even with the ability to communicate to multiple users (until then, electronic mail had been limited to users of the same machine), this new 'email' would have been limited to people in the ARPANET directory.

Knowing that there were a limited amount of users to manage, what did Ray's inbox look like?

How did things like message-specific information like address/to/from display itself?

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Claim: "Fun fact about Maori, in WW2 when American's came to Britain, they didn't like black colonial troops and Maori in the pubs. So they demanded the British bar them from the place, and the Brits told them to piss off and put "No White American" signs in their bars."

It's a youtube comment, but given such events as The Battle of Manners Street, Battle of Brisbane and Battle of Bamber Bridge I suspect it might be true. Is there any evidence backing that claim?

I've developed some kind of obsession lately to map out certain battles (WWI, WWII, Afghanistan, etc.) for some reason, but after countless google searches I've come up with nothing. I know there is a software out there somewhere, as I see several maps with identical markers. If I'm still unclear, I'm looking for a software that will allow me to make battle maps like in a textbook.

I know some Gaulish gods like Epona spread across the Empire, but what was the general practice in Gaul? Were Gaulish gods still worshipped widely? Were they absorbed into Roman ones (as Zeus was into Jupiter, for instance?) Did one group (Gaulish or Roman) of gods hold pre-eminence over the other? And what did the common people actually practice, in terms of places and forms of worship. I think immediately of the fact that Iceland, which has been Christian for 1000 years, still diverts roads to not bother the elves - and I'm curious to know if Gaul had similar hold-overs that distinguished it from the rest of the Roman world.

If the colonies had stayed under English rule, would they have developed a new accent? Also, would the differences in words like "favorite/favourite and color/colour arise?

I’ve heard that Soviet soldiers had only one rifle for every five or ten men. And the sheer number of soviet military deaths compared to any other nation leads me to believe that, while the one rifle/ten men story may not be 100% true, it has some basis in reality. So how well equipped were Soviet soldiers during the Second World War?

I was wondering whether there is any truth to the russians using 2,4-dinitrophenol as a supplement during ww2, with the purpose of staying warm. I can't seem to find any sources on it, but my teacher seemed like he thought it was the case, and I have to decide between writing a large assignment on this or something else, so beforehand I'd like to be sure.

Any help's appreciated, thanks :)

Welcome everyone to our World War II Panel AMA!

With the recent release of Call of Duty’s current iteration, “WWII”, we’ve assembled together for you a panel to discuss the historicity of the game, the history behind it, and the META-narrative of history as entertainment to boot. We've had questions about its accuracy - as well as that of earlier games - and anticipate more in the coming weeks, so want to provide a centralized place to address the wide variety of questions it is likely to lead to.

With the game focused on the American Campaign and the broader activities of the Western Front from Normandy onwards, we likewise have tailored this panel to be similarly pivoted, but we have a number of participants, able to cover a wide spectrum of topics related to the war, so please don’t feel too constrained if you have a question not necessarily inspired by the game, but which nevertheless seems likely in the wheelhouse of one of our panelists.

The flaired users at general quarters for this AMA include the following, and the following areas of coverage:

• /u/Bernardito will be covering topics related to the British Armed Forces, with a focus on in Burma, 1942-1945
• /u/bigglesworth_'s main area of interest is aerial warfare during World War II. He's not aware of any historical instances of an infantryman waiting until two enemies are close together before calling in an AZON strike to get a multikill.
• /u/calorie_man's main area of interest are the Malayan Campaign and British grand strategy leading up to WWII.
• Despite the flair, /u/captainpyjamashark's main areas of interest are gender and 20th century France, and can help answer questions about the occupation, resistance, the Maquis, and interactions between American soldiers and the French, especially involving French women.
• /u/coinsinmyrocket will be covering the activities of the OSS and SOE during WWII as well as any general questions about the American Military's experience during the war. He can neither confirm nor deny the existence of killstreaks being used to make American Airborne units OP in combat.
• /u/commiespaceinvader's main area of research is the Wehrmacht and Wehrmacht war crimes. For this AMA he will focus on questions concerning the Holocaust, POW camps, and the treatment of American and other captives.
• Among other things, /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov likes stuff that go "pew pew pew".
• /u/kugelfang52 studies American Holocaust memory. He is most interested in how Americans perceive and use the Holocaust to understand and shape the world around them.
• /u/LordHighBrewer will be covering topics related to the Anglo-Canadian forces from D-day to VE day.
• /u/nate077 studies the Wehrmacht, Holocaust, and Germany during the war.
• /u/rittermeister was once very interested in soldier life and material culture in the American and German armies. Essentially, small-unit tactics, uniforms and equipment, and various other minutiae of war at the bleeding edge. Can also muddle through German doctrine, recruitment, and training.
• As the name implies, /u/TankArchives will be covering the use of armoured vehicles while feverishly flipping through Sherman manuals looking for how many hitpoints each variant had.
• /u/the_howling_cow researches the United States Army in WWII; the campaigns in North Africa, Italy, Europe, and the Pacific and the Army's organization and training, uniforms, and materiel, with specializations in armored warfare and the activities of the U.S. 35th Infantry Division.
• /u/thefourthmaninaboat is interested in the Royal Navy, and its operations during the war, especially in the European and Mediterranean theatres.

As always, we ask that users not part of the panel please refrain from answering questions, which is a privilege restricted to those participating.

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Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and most (?) of the Bolshevik leadership used assumed names in the years leading up to their takeover. "Lenin" refers to the Lena river in Siberia, "Stalin" means "man of steel" etc. Did they use these pseudonyms to avoid the Tsarist police (they spent a lot of time in exile either way), or were they used primarily for dramatic effect (or to mask their ethnicities)? What did ordinary Russians think of these names - were they even aware that they were pseudonyms?

In the US, it would be as if a President Mississippi and a Vice-President Concrete had suddenly taken over. Stephen Kotkin's bio of Stalin makes no mention of anyone finding the fake names unusual, but he does relate an interesting bit from a pre-WW1 Lenin letter where he is trying to track down "Koba" (one of Stalin's earlier pseudonyms) but can't remember his real name (Jugashvilli).