When the Allies landed in Normandy and took the beaches, they killed many Nazi soldiers. They then held these areas. What happened to all the dead enemy soldiers? Mass graves or individually buried with markers?

Same question but for Allied troops killed behind enemy lines.

Sorry for the title gore - I could have worded the question more fluently!

Edit: This was in Roman Britain

After Op COBRA, Eisenhower favoured a 'Broad Front' strategy with all armies advancing along the entire front and no particular center of gravity or schwerpunkt

This seems to go against basic military logic, as if you're strong everywhere, you're strong nowhere.

In addition, it seems that along a lot of that front, the Allied armies would be advancing into ground that was either difficult (eg. Hurtgenwald) or of little strategic value.

On the other hand, Montgomery's favoured option of a weighted punch into the Ruhr through the Low Countries seems to have a number of strategic advantages, including liberating Belgium and the Netherlands, clearing V-Weapon launch sites, and not least occupying the industrial heart of Germany.

It's tempting to see the broad front as a political cop-out to keep the various nationalities and obstreperous subordinates happy, but what, if anything, am I missing?

42 aircraft is pretty paltry for a ship clocking in at 33,000 tons, even without employing a deck park. Additionally, as far as I can tell her total hangar area is similar to the Shokaku class, which were rated for 72 operational aircraft without a deck park, plus reserves. Was this some sort of weird doctrinal or operational constraint, or was there another reason for it? Additionally, did the Germans ever plan to expand her air group to a more reasonable size?

Was it a single event or a series of conversions? Who perfomed the conversion? Was it many people? How long did the conversion process take? Was it peaceful?

For context, I'm a writer and am working on a story for an anthology with an ancient Greek theme. I studied history in college and had some courses on ancient slavery and society. I've still got the books and have been reading through them, and think I'll be setting my story in Chios around the eighth century BC. I'm very interested in reports, as from Theopompos, about the development of large-scale chattel slavery in the Greek world potentially originating on Chios, along with the development of an export economy (particularly of wine). The book I'm reading suggests it may have occurred in the centuries preceding the classical period, and I hope to depict a fictional version of perhaps the very early stages of this (with other elements related to Chios in this period, particularly including the legendary accounts of it as the alleged birthplace of Homer).

I'm just beginning my research but have some books on Greek slavery (Slavery in Classical Greece by N.R.E. Fisher and Greek & Roman Slavery by Thomas Wiedemann). However, I'm curious if there are any sources that might touch on social or cultural histories either of Chios in particular or of Ionia at large in that period. Material culture, architecture, religion (local cults?), food, political life before the classical period, anything that would flesh out the setting a bit more.

I know this period is more defined by holes than by strong historical records, and I initially became interested in Chios mainly because, as far as sources go on ancient Greek slavery, it is one of the few cities we have much of note on outside of Athens and Sparta. So I'd appreciate any and all suggestions that might relate, even tangentially. Thank you!

The Peninsular War is usually described as Napoleonic France fighting Spain, Portugal and Britain. Some Spaniards, the afrancesados (“Frenchified”), supported the monarchy of Joseph Bonaparte, but most of this support seems administrative or intellectual in nature. Were there any military formations of Spaniards that fought for Joseph, under either the Spanish or the French flags?

I know in a lot of places you can grab a kebab, or fish and chips, or pho or what have you on the street. It seems like that quick meal function as been replaced by fast food. But was there a strong street food culture in the US before the nationalization of fast food? What kind of food was commonly served, and what happened to the sellers?

I was under the assumption the "royalty" of ancient Egypt was Macedonian but someone flipped out on me when I said she was greek and not sub-saharan african. I am just looking for the right answer.

This was certainly true of my grandmother and grandfather. They were middle (later upper-middle) class Jews in New York, born around the end of World War One. My grandfather spoke fluent German and Russian, while my grandmother only ever learned French. Neither of them ever spoke any Yiddish (which they considered low-class) and only a tiny amount of Hebrew. I remember my grandfather had very strict ideas about what languages were “appropriate” for men versus women to learn - French and Spanish for women, German Greek and Russian for men. Was this a common attitude at the time?

Why downvote this?

Currently student teaching via virtual means. My mentor teacher is discussing with his U.S. History II students about the 1st anniversary of the January 6th, 2021 Insurrection. He said confidently that this was the first time in American history where this happened. Was it the first? Do we consider the seizure of the White House during the War of 1812 a coup/insurrection? Thanks in advance.

Im trying to find a book on the Parthians but they all are from decades ago as far as i could see im trying to find a recent book on the parthians.

From what I've read, a single lingua france from Spain to Central Asia, along with the rise of paper and Indian numerals, allowed for rapid and broad transmission of knowledge. Many historians worldwide have pinned 1258 and the fall of Baghdad, and the rise of independent Islamic powers, as the end of the Golden Age. Yet we don't claim that the Age ended with the rise of Ummayad Cordoba or Samanid Central Asia, those powers had their own concurrent enlightenments. It seems to me that the biggest shift came when Arabic was no longer the majority language in Spain and Persia eastwards.

Looking at the map of (the north of) North America, it seems like an impossible feat to find exactly the one spot the Normans landed on and settled >1000 years ago. This is even more impressive given the fact (to my knowledge) little information was available at all about the journeys to the Americas.

How did the discoverers of L'Anse aux Meadows find the site? Was it trial and error along the entire coast, sheer luck, or some impressive level of historical deduction?

(Follow-up question: I am assuming in this post that L'Anse aux Meadows is the only Norman landing site in North America, but do archaeologists and historians actually agree on that, or is it likely there are more sites like this?)

Apologies if I am getting any basic facts wrong.

Hi!

My question is divided into two parts:

1. As far as I know the nazis systematically tried to cover up their crime and hide the fact that they were committing a genocide. Did they hide it because of the eventuallity they could be bring to justice in the case of a defeat or were they also afraid that the German public, including their own supporters, would not accept it?
2. If the nazis were indeed trying to hide the genocide from the German people, how did they planned to explain to the population that the jewish population of Europe vanished in the course of several years? I guess it would have been pretty obvious for anybody that a genocide had been commited. Did they planned to reveal what had been done after the facts or make up stories to explain the disappearance of jews without appearing guilty?

Thanks in advance!

Hello! I was watching the History Matters video on the Swedish-Norwegian breakup. When Denmark lost Norway, it negotiated to keep Greenland and Iceland in exchange for giving up Norway peacefully. What strategic value did Greenland and Iceland have for the Danish? And why did Great Britain approve of a fellow naval power keeping two big islands to its North?

They exchanged letters, debated theology, sent gifts. Saladin sent his personal physician when Richard was unwell. Meanwhile Richard tried several times to meet up and hang out with Saladin.

How common would this type of enemy commander relationship be at the time? Was it common knowledge; if so, how did the others on either side feel about it?

I just want to get an idea of what kind of stories romans wrote novels about, even if they are not complete

Also, what about the Aeneid?, seems pretty complete to me

I hope this question is allowed.

I’m looking for books about general life in Ancient Greece.

Not necessarily wars etc but just about general life as well.

Thanks :)