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I am aware of the head of the household impregnating slave women, but was it formally legal or accepted for slaves to have children among their own class/caste/population? (I'm sure it happened either way, but was kinda wondering about how accepted it was.)

At Valley Forge, the Continental Army struggled to get through the cold winter weather. Warm clothes seem to be an extremely cheap item to obtain.

Why did the Continental Army struggle so much just to get shoes and clothes? Were they more expensive back in the time period? Was there a shortage? If so, what caused the shortage?

It's hard to believe difficulty they had of obtaining clothes/shoes to keep warm, especially from a modern perspective, where these things are easily able to be purchased for a cheap price.

I need to confirm something on page 148. Is there indeed a fact such as US navy ship USS Bancroft went to port of Izmir, Ottoman Empire in 1897 and got attacked?

Aramaic, Greek, Arabic were Lingua Franca in the Middle East and Arabic even became the daily language for many. Why didn’t Turkish ever replace Arabic?

Hello all!

I was researching for a relatively short and light paper when I came across a quote; I loved it! Perfectly fit the paper, easy to cut down, but alas....no citation other than "Adolf Hitler, 1938". I did some digging - tons of websites, books, and articles quote this speech. Some offer a few more details; the speech allegedly occurred in November, 1938, was given to the Reichstag, and is referred to somewhat consistently as Hitler "addressing" the Reichstag.

Here's the quote: "These boys and girls enter our organizations [at] ten years of age, and often for the first time get a little fresh air; after four years of the Young Folk they go on to the Hitler Youth, where we have them for another four years . . . And even if they are still not complete National Socialists, they go to Labor Service and are smoothed out there for another six, seven months . . . And whatever class consciousness or social status might still be left . . . the Wehrmacht [armed forces] will take care of that."

While the original speech details would be much appreciated, my large question is one of personal interest, not academic assistance. Did Hitler give informal addresses, speeches, etc. regularly? How did this play into parliamentary power dynamics, oaths of allegiance, and the general air of power that he seemed to try to maintain?

Thanks!

Say if I was living in ancient Rome/Athens/Alexandria and I had a small house or lived in an apartment. Did I have a key to get into my front door? What prevented people in the urban areas from just getting their stuff stolen all the time?

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Were gambesons, or any other padded/quilted defensive armor, in use with the Roman Empire? If so, were these worn by Celtic or Germanic warriors?

More specifically, The K class subs

In the aftermath of WWII, Germany and Japan both were subjected to harsh treaties that involved dividing the land into occupational zones in Germany/Austria's case, and a division of Japan's Empire between the Soviets taking Manchuria and North Korea and the US taking South Korea and establishing a military occupation of the home islands.

But when Italy's peace treaty was signed in 1947, the terms are comparatively lenient, which included relinquishing all colonies in Africa, ceding small amounts of territory to Yugoslavia and Greece, war reparations that could be paid off in trade goods and services, and a limiting of the size of its military, which was suspended just a few years later with Italy's entry into NATO.

What prevented the Allies from establishing a military occupation of the country in the same fashion as Germany and Japan? Did the Allies just not have Italy's position in the Mediterranean in their strategic interests? Or was the light treatment deliberate to gain Italy as a willing Western ally as tensions with the USSR rose?

I suppose what got me thinking about this was reading about the campaigns in the Solomons, where islanders helped coastwatchers do things such as hide from Japanese patrols, but there wasn't a lot of detail in what I was reading about their "regular lives" during the war. Are there English-languge sources on this?