On a complete side note, everyone should read this book. The opening part is rough to get through as there's a lot of groundwork that needs to be laid but it is a damn great book afterwards.

Many thanks

Implicitly I always thought that the ideology of antisemitism and the drive to genocide of the Jews came from Hitler.

I know very well that Hitler was in a way fitting into a general environment of disliking/hating Jews at the time. But how much of the twisted ideology of the Nazis was Hitler personally and how much was the party itself (or other key people)?

What if another person became the leader, would they have still driven Germany to do the holocaust or was it really a sort of personal vendetta of Hitler.

In way I also want to know whether he was the real person in power or also a figurehead in some way.

And where can I learn more about this theme?

My husband and I were reading about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo since it was in the news recently. He is from Mexico and learned about it at University, but he remembers being taught that the Treaty is considered invalid by the Mexican government because the US never paid the sum of $15 million. The (English) wikipedia article on the treaty implies that the money was paid, but gives no source. Is there confirmation that the treaty was honoured?

With such a massive number of officers on their side why didn't larger portions of the army join the rebels? Frankly I'm confused about the whole thing, I cant seem to find any detailed accounts, and an overall chronology might be helpful.

Of course we all know he was a great leader so I'm more asking about his actual skills as a military strategist; I've read and been told both sides of the the spectrum, that he was a great general but also have heard and read that he was glorified and rather ineffective

A lot of importance seemed to be placed on honour culture, participating in the art and ones role in society during this period, especially for the Daimyo. But what would be expected of an Daimyo in 1551, both theoretically and practically? And how much did these expectations line up with reality?

I'm doing research on The Conqueror for my next podcast episode in which I will examine the pros and cons of the CinemaScope era of Hollywood film making that show very easily when looking at The Conqueror. I saw on imdb (I know, awful source) that the local Navajo played many of the Mongol extras, and it made me wonder if there were other instances of this being done in this era. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any information on this or the Navajo that were in The Conqueror. While I do see information on Navajo actors of this era, all of it is regarding their use as Native American extras, not extras of other races. Are there any other examples of this in the CinemaScope era, and where would I find resources on digging more into this topic?

(World War Two)

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Forgive me if this is an ignorant question (though I guess ignorance is why I'm here), but how did European military powers coordinate different uniform colors during the time period when military uniforms were designed to be conspicuous on the battlefield?

During the Crimean war, the British army was famous for its "read coats" and Russians wore green. France had her white torso, blue sleeve uniforms during the Napoleonic wars, while Prussia wore all blue and Austria wore white. Surely there were some instances of armies meeting each other only to find an enemy wearing the same color. Did these empires coordinate with each other in any way? Once Great Britain had established themselves as red did other armies simply choose to avoid red because Britain got to it first?

I realize this is probably one of the more innocuous facets of warfare during this time, but it always bothered me how color coded these armies were with very little overlay (unless, of course I just don't know about the overlay).

Is there any historical reason why?

How common were black people in 1300's England? Could they hold positions of power?

For example, I would assume that the chinese were at least aware that the 30 years war was taking place in europe during the 1620's and 1630's (though if I'm wrong please correct me). But did they know what the causes of that war were? Or did their knowledge of the conflict basically consist of "the barbarians in the west seem to fighting one another." How much did the Chinese know?

Before the Europeans arrived in Mesoamerica, how did civilizations like the Aztec/Mixtec/Zapotec/Mayan/Tarascans (or any others) deal with diseases in their urban centers and territory? Do the records we have expand at all on the cultural perspectives towards the sick and how they were to be treated?

Secondly: How much can we, historically or theoretically, attribute a growing resentment towards the Native Americans [post-war] due to their popular allegiances with the British (and their "war crimes").

And I'd just like to add some rhetorical thoughts: a) I'm still dumbfounded as to how the Patriots fought so well, and b) imagine the world today if the British had won..

The U.S had the U2 spy plane and the Hexagon spy satellite, did the USSR have similar capabilities? Are there any known incidents of Soviet planes or satellites that managed to take pictures over US airspace?