Today while visiting the Topography of Terror in Berlin, I noticed that a number of men were tried and found guilty of what amounted to accessory to tens of thousands of murders, but I can't recall reading about a single person who spent more than ten years in jail/internment/imprisonment before either committing suicide, dying, or (most commonly) being released to live a surprisingly normal life.

Was this due to the men "just following orders," a fear of overcrowding jails with Nazi bureaucrats, prosecutors growing tired of/desensitized towards Nazi atrocities, or some other reason?

I saw a documentary recently about the early history of my country (Denmark), and they explained how (in the early days) people believed and worshipped spirits, when and how did these spirits evolve into gods? Both on a northern European and a global scale.

Or are gods a modern classification of spirits and people back then had no such distinction between spirits?

The book is Foundation: The History of England from its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors. This claim is from the first chapter.

In almost any depiction of the Angel of Death or the Grim Reaper they're always wielding a Scythe however this is a farming tool not a weapon. I've often heard it's because they harvest souls and if that's the case when and why did this portrayal become so popular.

When ever I watch a movie or series set in the old days and the characters use the phrase "it's okay", it often feels too modern. When did we start using "OK" instead of, for example "all right"?

Would you own the land if you possess the deed even if it belonged to another party? Like for instance, if thieves were to steal it before the owner was going to sell their home, would they still own the land, or does the thieves own it, or would the owner need to pay to get it back?

I was wondering if the germans took measures to ensure the safety of children in the event of bombing raids across Germany in the same way that Britain chose to move much of the city-children of Southern England to Scotland. I've always heard of the evacuees of WW2 in the UK but never about whether or not the germans did the same.

In short, given that Germany was ultimately bombed heavily, did they let their children die at home or send them elsewhere? EDIT: Following from that, did they just have to let children be in the cities once the Russians counter-invaded?

Diana Galarreta-Aima, a native from Peru, received her Ph.D. in Early Modern Spanish Literature from the University of Virginia in 2015. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Spanish at James Madison University. She is currently working on a book project entitled “Returning to Spain: Life, Literature, and Captivity in Algiers and Turkey,” which studies the relationships between captivity and conversion narratives, and the most pressing issues of the sixteenth and seventeenth century: language, belonging, and community. She has published peer-review articles on Berber chronicles as bridges of contact and representations of rich material, human and cultural interchanges across the Early Modern Mediterranean societies.

Okay so in Christian tradition today people get palms to "simulate" the time Jesus returned home. My question here is it was a desert. How did they got all those palms to recieve him in those times. I mean if in that area where enough palms to supposed do that.

... before sun glasses and sunscreen was available. How did they prevent severe sunburns and snow blindness, especially when outside standing on the battlefield or doing agriculture?

In taking a "Understanding Science and Technology" class, we've talked at length about how religion, specifically Christianity and Catholicism, has shaped the world and science and how people like Francis Bacon, Issac Newton, and Charles Darwin, (in his case, for some of his life,) were all strong Christians, (each of their own branches,) in their lives, and study, having a religious motivation in the questions they asked and things they said. (Minus Darwin, who couldn't accept that a intelligent God would make a world of such chaos and torture for his people to live in.) At what point in history was "everyone" part of the church? The Great Schism is obviously a turning point, so is Martin Luther, but what about earlier? What's the latest point in history where, literally, EVERYONE was religious in some form?

I recently read Pontius Pilate by Paul L. Maier and I'm very interested in the historical account of Jesus. No one can really deny he existed and was crucified. Does anyone know anything about Barabbas, the man the Bible claims was released in favor of crucifying Jesus? What happened after he was (shockingly) released after the tradition of releasing a prisoner over Passover? Did he become a Christ follower or did he continue his life of crime? I believe he was a sorcerer (or claimed to be) to some extent.

Thanks for your answers.

We are all aware of the fiercely policed borders and restrictions on emigration from the Warsaw Pact countries. But were restrictions on emigration a feature of all communist states in the world and did it have any ideological basis, however convoluted?

Germany surrendered in May 1945, before the Trinity test. But in the earlier planning stages, were any German targets considered before the surrender? Also, was there any preference given to German vs Japanese targets?

During the Punic wars and Peloponnesian wars cities would be put to the torch, with the men being slaughtered and the women and children being sold into slavery. I haven't heard of this being a common thing in the medieval ages, where sacks might have been gruesome but were not a death knell to the city. When and why did this change?