An article I read from the BBC said that about 10,000 were killed and 40,000 were captured of those that remained. What happened to the other 50,000 then? Were the other smaller evacuations and/or did they try to get back via neutral countries?

I know it's on the name "national socialist," and I know people often say they weren't but I cannot find how they aren't except for the totalitarian aspect of it but at the same time so was the USSR

For instance, had the Cuban Missile Crisis ultimately escalated beyond diplomatic solution, and the U.S government had turned to a first-strike as the necessary option, what would have occurred? What would the first move have been for the U.S, how quickly would response have come from the USSR, and what was likely to have been the end result?

Basically, I'm looking for a timeline of sorts, explaining what exactly would have occurred in the event of nuclear war during this time from both a strategic standpoint, and in terms of the ultimate results.

Were they planning on driving all the way up to Germany? Through the Alps?

In 1492, Rodrigo Borja was elected as Pope and became Alexander VI, despite the fact that he had recognized children. As far as I know, the Catholic Church wouldn't let someone who had a family become a priest or even less a Pope. Was this different at the time? Or was the Church so corrupted that nobody really cared? Additionally, if "the rules" didn't say anything about if a Pope could have children or not, could there be a case like his nowadays, or have the rules changed?

Hello all,

Sorry if this is the wrong sub - happy to move my question if it fits somewhere else, just didn't really know where else to ask. I'm in the process of conducting a fair amount of research on World War I. In reading a few different books on the subject (i.e. The Great War by Peter Hart), I've come to realize that the absolute best resource for primary and eyewitness accounts of the war can apparently be found in the archives of the Imperial War Museum My issue is, when exploring the IWM's online collection, I'm having trouble both narrowing my search down and also finding specific items from the IWM collection that books have referenced.

For example, The Great War utilizes a quotation taken from an article titled "A Letter from India to My Daughters in England" by a Captain Charles Miller of the 2nd Royal Innisking Fusiliers. The citations list this article as coming from the IWM's documents. However, no matter if I search the author, title, or possible keywords from the quotation, I cannot seem to find the article in question in the online IWM database.

Does anyone else have this issue? Is the IWM collection not entirely digitized? Has anyone had success in using the IWM collections effectively, or know what I'm doing wrong that my searches don't return the article in question?

Thank you.

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Honestly, I am simply having a difficult time getting serious objective information on the case. Anything which could point me in the right direction would be awesome!

I have looked into the reasoning about how religious minorities came to the country and brought their faith with them. Also how there was religious freedom which encouraged competition.
That just doesn't seem to give a suitable answer. I'm from Australia and we are very much non religious. There are some devout believers but they tend to be first generation immigrants. The discussion of God is almost a taboo.
Australia and the US have very similar histories yet one is proudly secular and one is devout. How did that happen?

Every single pronunciation video on YouTube says it differently. Are there a variety of different, generally accepted pronunciations? I've always said "Sak-uh-ju-wee-uh," but a podcast host pronounced it "Sak-uh-guh-way-uh."

Are there any other famous names the average person mispronounces? I've heard Genghis Khan should be pronounced "Jang-us" and not "Ging-us", not sure where I heard that though.

I couldnt find this question anywhere. My girlfriend pointed this out to me trending on twitter, amd mentlefloss had an article about it as well as a few dozen others.

So is there any historical and factual basis to back up this claim?

While female archers probably haven't been too common in the past, I assume they were fairly common in steppe peoples like Mongols and Turkic groups. Did they have any special equipment or fire with a different tequnique? Or did they just tough it out? I've heard of the mythical Amazon practice of mastectomy, but I assumed that this was a fiction penned by Greeks to further sensationalize the idea of female warriors.

I'd be interested in answers from any other cultures as well, I'm just not aware of how prevalent archery was among women in other areas.

Something that's been on my mind lately is of Operation Sealion. Perhaps there was something we weren't taught (Secondary/High School level here - 17 y/o) or I am simply forgetting;

Why did Germany not fully commit to the invasion of Great Britain, forwarding not only an aerial bombing campaign (Battle of Britain) but a naval assault, and landings of armies onto British shores?

Why only send the Luftwaffe out only to get decimated on their own, instead of backing them up with sea and land forces?

Was it that Goering convinced Hitler that the Luftwaffe could handle it alone? Surely there must have been objection to that. To throw away so much of what was critical to German conquest seems foolish, looking at it.

Thanks for the responses, everyone - new to this subreddit but very passionate for History in school. Hope to stick around a bit.

While im familiar with life under Hitler and to some extent with life under Franco, I hear very little about life under mussolini. Infact I've even heard some claim that Mussolini was some sort of beneveolent dictator (A fact I utterly REPUDIATE!!!).

But nonetheless while I know of his war crimes, I don't know much about what things wer like on the domestic front.

Edit: I mean other than who we now call Native Americans. Is it possible some Vikings stayed etc.?

Watching a documentary on WWII Germany. The Allies pounded Germany day and night... Looks like there wasn't a time of day the population could feel safe. Why didn't the Germans do the same with England? Why did they stick to night bombing?

Looking for some interesting history focused YouTube channels. What are your favorites.

Were there cities like tenochtitlan in the midwest, and if not, why?