Persons with hereditary disabilities and diseases were subject to sterilisation and later euthanasia under Nazi eugenics polices. Were military veterans who, due to war injuries, had become severely disabled subject to these policies?

Actually really interested to know what the people around them got paid too - also any other pay grades for people in big wars.

In the UK he is regarded as one the greatest National heroes and one of the finest military leaders of all time, but I'm interested to know how the French regard him.

Do they praise him as the man who stopped Napoleon, or do they think Waterloo was lucky? Do they think that Waterloo was not Napoleon's fault?

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I'm specifically interested in battles that took place in one area for an extended time like first world war trench warfare and urban combat like that which occured at Stalingrad that basically destroyed entire villages and cities.

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In many short-stories, films and other fiction set during the 19th and early 20th century in Britain the characters encounter clubs. They're typically physical places populated with upper-class men sitting around fireplaces and drinking whiskey/smoking cigars. Do these kinds of club houses still exist or did they evolve into something else? If not, why did they die out?

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I've been reading a lot about the crusades and have found that, by far, the best books are ones written by men who were in them (Villehardouin, for example). I want to learn about The Inquisition (which I know is a very broad term spanning many years...), but I can only find modern histories. Does anyone know if anyone with detailed first-hand knowledge wrote about it? Are there any English translations of records kept by inquisitors? I'm a bit disheartened by how difficult it's been to even search for this kind of info; it seems like Google is not good. But I'm hoping the pros might know something I don't! Thanks very much!

EDIT: I'm looking really for accounts from ~1100-1500 AD, during the height of things.

He's a secular figure, so you would think the 1800's, but I've seen no actual evidence that shows his source. Was it a short story, a book, or simply a folk-tale?

Hello, i have a few questions for you guys and I was hoping you could help.

Basically I work with someone who is a big holocost denier and he brings it up a lot and we debate it quite a bit. He says it happened but that it wasn't 6 million Jews killed but more like 500k saying that the Red Cross only reported 500k Jewish deaths and there weeent 6 million Jews in Germany.

could you guys give me a little more insight on that? I tell him I don't know if that's true but he's a real narcissist and just tells me "trust me I've done my research, you need to go do some reading and learn your history"

He also says most of the evil stuff the nazis did such as gas chambers was propaganda and the chambers were built after the war.

This is kinda off topic but I feel like telling someone but he always wants to discuss Israel and Palestine conflicts, he really doesn't like Jews. But he says Jews are evil because they're taking Palestine land and I don't know that whole situation but I counter that with "but that's what The nazis were doing as well, they were invading other Countries" and he responds with "that's just propaganda, they were trying to stop the Jews from ruining their Country, do your research"

So anyways could you guys give me a little info on the holocost and the Red Cross reports so I could possibly have a better argument?

I don't mean to get to political or divisive but I don't really know who else to ask.

I know that most of them were given tanks by their allies (Sweden?) but how would they go about designing their own tanks?

Looking through google showed that coffee rust affected other coffee producing regions such as Java and Brazil, but not the Philippines. This supposedly lead to the Philippines being the sole producer of coffee, and allowed for the financing and development of various cathedrals, particulary in Lipa City which was the main center of coffee production. How true was this?

I have an ancestor who was transported from County Tyrone to Van Diemens Land in 1843 at the age of 23. He was rumoured to have been politically active at the time. As he was a young Catholic farm labourer, I figured he may have been part of the Ribbonmen, who were active in Northern Ireland at the time.

Can anyone provide any insights or suggested reading on County Tyrone around this time?

were their other sizes, besides ledger, and any reason they fell out of favor?

Put in other words: Should I spend any time reading Marc Bloch or is that somewhat pointless in a period where Susan Reynolds' 'Fiefs and Vassals' exists?

I am a Master's student (and in about three months hopefully a PhD Candidate) in Medieval Studies and I'm realizing how little I have read of older scholarship. While visiting with a (non-medievalist) professor at my undergrad over break, he mentioned that I should read Bloch, as a significant scholar of the Middle Ages, and graciously lent me his copy of vol I of Feudal Society.

While leafing through it, I couldn't help but wonder if there's any point in reading works of scholarship from nearly a hundred years ago, especially ones about topics that have been somewhat turned on their heads in the last several years.

Is there a point at which older historical works pass their points of usefulness? I mean, no one reads Gibbon for any real historical analysis nowadays, right? Should older scholarship be treated more like curiosities than anything else?

When is a work of scholarship no longer useful?

Ps: apologies if this question has been asked before, I spend some time with the search function and couldn't come up with a thread where this was addressed.

Look at Robert E. Lee's big two victories, 2nd incident at bull run & the battle of Chancellorsville, in Bull Run the Northern leadership working on extremely poor and second-hand intelligence launched very stupid frontal attacks on the rebels on the pretext of "they got them in a bag" but their flank was left open and they were simply attacked from that direction and were routed (albeit with ridiculous casualties to the rebels for a decisive victory in the process) And in Chancellorsville he made his classic "split forces" decision, which could have been easily punished by the Yankees had they had any form of proper communication and coordination, but the rebel force under Maj. General stonewall jackson casually marched infront of them (they made the effort of getting out of their trenches to skirmish with them, but once they passed, they decided to move back to the trenches and leave that problem to someone else), Jackson simply moved to the flank infront of the entire federal army and attacked them and once again routed them. And from there his big streak of decisive victories simply ends, he made very foolish decisions in Gettysburg and everything that followed was more stupid federal decisions and poor leadership and spending 2 years inside trenches while the yankees try to find a way to brute-force the rebels into surrendering.

I'm reading a newspaper from 1907 in which a man says the following:

"I recall somebody on a wheel just going by me and almost at the same moment I heard light footsteps and a voice exclaimed, 'Good morning.'"

Given the era and the fact that the passage in question referred to a well-to-do part of town around 9 in the morning, I believe the man "on a wheel" was riding a bicycle to work. Does this interpretation of the phrase make sense?