This isn't meant to be a Holocaust denial question at all. I'm taking a course on the Holocaust and my professor brought up an interesting point saying that after Operation T-4, (the extermination of disabled people in Germany) he had his name on documents that led it directly back to him. This led to some outrage from clerical bodies. After this, my professor says, Hitler was wary about putting his name to any documents for fear of this. He said that the way we know about Hitler's involvement was through other testimony such as Eichmann. Where is that testimony or others like it that exist and is there anything with Hitler's signature on it directly tying his name to the Holocaust?

I am a native English speaker. I feel I have a natural grasp of the language. I've seen some other posts were it mentions and quotes some older English and it looks and reads worse for me than modern foreign languages such as French, Spanish, or German. How long ago was a change made to what would at least be communicable English between me and another individual?

I haven’t seen anything specifically about this, so I figured I’d ask. It is also a difficult question for me to phrase, so I was unable to perform a simple search on the topic.

My question is specifically, how did people travel the world before the advent of the modern banking infrastructure? Did people just bring lots of money with them when they traveled? How did they deal with acquiring local currencies? Wouldn’t it be easy to forge a currency of a country that the recipient had never been to (for example, I’ll trade you these dollars for these yen, and I PROMISE that these are real dollars, even though you may have never seen dollars before)?

Certainly some people would arrive at a destination and take up a trade or a job, which carries with it it’s own set of challenges. However, there were rich people who would travel the world and I’m assuming they traveled mostly for leisure. For example, William Randolph Hearst traveled extensively with his mother when he was ten years old, in 1873. I assume that they didn’t work odd jobs while they traveled. Did they simply carry a trunk filled with money with them? Were there banks that they could withdraw funds from? Even this is comparatively recent. Certainly by this point you could wire funds across great distances, but what about earlier?

I've been watching WW2 documentaries lately and learning about the failures of the Italian army during the war, just wondering if anyone has any knowledge about how the Italian population is educated on this?

Why was Wilhelm I. the german "Emperor" while Victoria was the british "Queen"? Why didn't Wilhelm also choose the title of King? Or Franz of Austria, for matter.

As a german this really interests me.

I am writing a paper, and my research topic is the American public opinion of Fidel Castro during the Cuban Missile Crisis as examined through print media. This extends to newspaper articles/headlines, magazine articles/covers, and political cartoons from that time period. I have had decent success finding print articles through JSTOR, my university database, and others but am having a tough time finding good resources for political cartoons. Any recommendations?

Disclaimer: not trying to defend the actions of Hitler

Why do a lot of pictures of brodie helmet toting Americans, British, etc. tilt thier helmets to the side? Was there a purpose or was it a goofy thing soldiers would do?

It seems strange to join the side of the enemy which Bulgaria had only fought two years ago, why did they side with the axis? How did Bulgaria and Bulgarians feel about siding with the ottomans?

What the title says. I've never heard that name for the temple used and have only ever heard it referred to as the Templo Mayor pyramid or Templo Mayor complex. Wikipedia redirects Huey Teocalli to the page for Templo Mayor, but it's otherwise not mentioned on the page, and google only brings up articles about the game itself.

I know that many medieval people became extremely religious and devout to their Christian faith in order to avoid the plague (since they thought that God was punishing Europe for their sins).

However, did the opposite ever occur? Did anyone in Medieval Europe thought that the pagan Gods were punishing the people for converting away from their traditional beliefs?

I look forward to a dialogue with Reddit history friends about any topic so long as it is Mongolia – my favorite place in the world and favorite topic. I am an anthropologist which means that I am not really an expert in anything, but I certainly love Mongolia from one end to the other. My latest book is Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the world’s greatest conqueror gave us religious freedom, searching for the spiritual beliefs and laws of Genghis Khan and examining his influence on the American Revolution.

Here is my bio: Jack Weatherford is the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, which sold over 400,000 copies and has been optioned by Wolf Films (producer of Law and Order) and The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, optioned by The Weinstein Company, among other acclaimed books that have been published in more than twenty-five languages.

In 2006 he spoke at the United Nations to honor the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Mongol nation by Genghis Khan. In 2007 the President of Mongolia awarded him Mongolia’s highest honor for military or civilian service. He taught for twenty-nine years at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he held the DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Chair of Anthropology. He graduated from high school with Walker Pearce, to whom he was married from 1970 until her death in 2013. He now divides his time between their home in Charleston, South Carolina and Tur Hurah on the Bogd Khan Mountain in Mongolia.

Meant to say the boy who shot him

Wikipedia states that there were A teams, B teams, and C teams in WWII fireteams, but it doesn't specificy what ranks team members were. So, does anyone here happen to know what ranks these soldiers had?

I remember reading a while back that Lincoln was apart of the Whig party?? Was that considered third-party in his day?

I have heard that it wasn’t uncommon for pirates to buy goods from merchants, and merchants making secretive deals with pirates to sell their goods.

Weren’t merchants and their vessels part of their country’s navy in some sense? If so, didn’t they have to list who and where they sold their goods to? (If a pirate or an unexpected buyer was on the list, wouldn’t a merchant captain get in trouble for it?)

Was it always the merchant captains who agreed to secretly sell their goods to pirates? Or would part of the crew sometimes do it behind their backs?

I heard someone on Reddit say this and I was wondering if it was true.