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And if so, why were they treated so harshly, i mean even France should've known the terrible effect the reparations would have on the German economy? Didn't Wilson even warn about punishing Germany too hard?
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I'm not talking about the Sudetenland, but about the remainder of the Czech lands that were annexed by Germany on 15 march 1939. Did the nazis give any kind of justification for this?
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Helped my little brother with a school project a few days ago. e desegregated the schools and military and sent the national guard in to force it. He was also one of the greatest Generals and basically one of the reasons we won WW2. He was also an advocate of a balanced budget and warned of the military industrial complex. Why's he not the face for conservatism?
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What texts do you recommend that provide a comprehensive overview or otherwise good history of the American Civil War? I'm just interested in learning more about it.
Thank you!
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In George. R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series (I realize its not historical, bare with me on this) characters will eat onions raw and without complaint.
A quote from A Storm of Swords has Sam Tarly pick up an onion and "...one side was black with rot, but he cut that part off with his dagger and ate the good half raw".
Did people use to eat onions raw? Is cooking onions more modern?
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I think the title explains itself, how did the two Koreas come to use the different terms "Choson" and "Hanguk" to refer to the peninsula?
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I saw this article the other day in foreign policy, http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/02/did-chinese-civilization-come-from-ancient-egypt-archeological-debate-at-heart-of-china-national-identity/, and am not sure what to make of it. Is this just coverage of some crazy Chinese guy? Is there any actual basis for it? Or is he just going against the grain because Chinese nationalist go on about how China is the oldest civilisation in the world and so on?
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I mean if an attacker wants to sack a city, why would they siege the castle? Why not just ransack the surrounding city and ignore the castle altogether?
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Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
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Although the colonies were in their infancy, were they particularly in favor of one party in the Civil War? Did any fighting break out there? How aware were they of the troubles at home?
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If you Google sculpture small penis, you find plenty of pop sci articles talking about how the reason ancient statues had such small penises was because the Greeks thought small penises were a sign of being rational, intellectual and authoritative while large penises were a sign of foolishness, lust and ugliness. All of them seem to cite Kenneth Dover's [Greek Homosexuality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Homosexuality_(book)) so I'm not sure how well accepted this is within the general historical community but it's certainly a widespread belief and I haven't been able to find any sources seriously disputing this claim.
Of course, Ancient Greece was also a very male dominated society and the bulk of the perspectives from the time were written from a male's point of view. Do we have any reporting from Greek women on the issue? Were there Greek women who were size queens or talked about how their husband couldn't please them due to their penis being too small or too big? Were there Greek women who cheated on their husbands because of his penis size?
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My understanding is that Chinese nationalists believe that China's 'rightful place' as the leading civilization in the world was disrupted during the colonial period and that modern Chinese foreign policy should be focused on restoring the greatness they enjoyed before that. But if China was so powerful beforehand, how do they explain the fact that they were so vulnerable to European and Japanese power in the first place? (The same question could also be applied to the Mongol conquests and the Yuan period.)
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So I've become quite interested in the Goths and the Vandals and wanted to know of their exact origin. What boggles me is that there are almost no one refuting that Vandals may have originated from Scandinavia like no one cares while there's a huge debate about the origin of the Goths. I've even seen some that claim Goths coming from Scandinavia is ridiculous while not even mentioning Vandals. It often seems like the people researching this are heavily biased as I see Polish professors come up with Goths originating from Gdansk. Is there anything that can point to a definitive origin of the goths and vandals other than Jordanes?
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I've seen this factoid in several places and am trying to find a good source for it. I noticed that Hitler mentioned it in his speech on 22 June 1941 (when he attacked the Soviet Union) 1, and according to him, Molotov supposedly said this during the conversations with Hitler in November 1940. But then I found the English translation of a German memorandum about those conversations 2 and there I can't see Molotov saying anything like that. So what I'm wondering about is if we have any other source besides Hitler's own word that Molotov (or some other Soviet official) said that they felt threatened by Finland.
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