As the title says, I would like some help to find sources to begin with the study of the revolution movements of the past century because I don't have any idea where is a good place to start.
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I recently read the memoirs of a Romanian who went to tank school (at Neuruppin) in Germany to become an officer. What I find interesting is that he was both Gefreiter and Fahnenjunker, if I understood correctly, and before becoming an officer, he ended up at Kursk. He was promoted to Leutnant afterwards. Did the Germans have the habit of sending their officer cadets into battle before promoting them? If I understood right, normal officer cadets for the British and the US armies came out of the academy directly as 2nd Lieutenants/Ensigns. How did the promotion system work for the Wehrmacht?
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Any kind of war dart. Were they made for killing or made for disabling the enemy. People say Valens was killed by a war dart during a Calvary charge. If lawn darts can kill people, then war darts can do serious damage
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I wondered if anyone with some knowledge of British military / naval history could help me to identify the uniform of the man in this portrait: http://imgur.com/vHeWJTU (I'm sorry about the poor cellphone photo; I can probably take a better one if needed.)
I believe he was a Royal Navy officer of some sort - perhaps early 19th century? but don't know much else. The portrait has come down in my mother's family and I'd like to identify exactly who it was - so any information on likely date, rank or anything else would be extremely helpful.
Thanks!
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"We won't have that intimate detail" in the future, she claims. Thoughts?
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I'm particularly interested in asian trading posts in the East Indies and similar areas. Were they built from scratch or just existing villages that were extended. Were the materials shipped in or taken from the local area?
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I've been watching The Great War series on youtube and comparing WW1 to WW2, it is much more gruesome and intriguing than WW1. So why is there so much spotlight in the media towards WW2 than WW1?
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Is it unique among Christian churches for this?
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I know they officially remained in existence. But at the same time, they didn't really seem to do anything. In the history books I've read, the story of the SA basically finishes at the Night of the Long Knives. The story then focuses on the SS and the Wehrmarch.
But if they still existed, they must have been doing something. Why wasn't it just abolished eventually? What did they do?
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Nazi Germany was based on a strong ideology and I can't imagine this way of thinking disappeared just like that after the war. I found some anecdotical evidence while browsing the Wikipedia page on German POW camps in the USA.
Often members of the Afrika Korps who had been captured early in the war during Germany's greatest military successes,[13]:150–151 they led work stoppages, intimidated other prisoners, and held secret kangaroo court for those accused of disloyalty. Those convicted were sometimes attacked or killed in a process known as the "Holy Ghost"; most prisoner "suicides" were likely murders.[7][18][15] While the American government executed 14 Germans after the war for murdering other prisoners in three incidents, hundreds of such murders may have occurred.
Prisoners regardless of ideology often taunted their captors, such as saluting with Sieg Heils when forced to attend the lowering of the United States flag. They secretly celebrated Hitler's birthday and other Nazi holidays after the Americans banned them, and many became upset when Jewish American officers supervised them.
So it's clear the ideology survived but I'd like to learn more about how exactly it survived (did it also exist out of POW camps for example) and how long it remained strong.
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I'm trying to find information on sword-carrying laws in any European country between 1500 and 1800. I'm vaguely familiar with Medieval laws regarding the carrying of swords within city limits in England and France, but anything after the 15th century is outside my area of expertise.
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How Americans choose who to vote for in early US presidential elections? There was no telegraph or radio invented, so were people only limited in newspapers and candidate's speeches when he was in town? It seems that nowadays we rely on media a lot, so I wondered if the process was different in the past
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I recently learned that there was an explicitly pro gay rights movie made in the Weimar Republic as early as 1919. Where did this radical liberal thinking (gay rights) come from, what was the popular reception at the time and what led to its demise (I assume the Nazis)?
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Ok, this is about ancient warfare and tactics and how some of the physics behind them actually worked. So I have loved ancient warfare for the majority of my life. Over the years I've gained more and more knowledge about this subject, but a couple of questions seem to keep me wondering. The first two kind of have something to do with each other, but they both are some what independent.
In formations such as a phalanx or a shield wall you end up with an ungodly amount of force being exerted on the very front lines of the two forces colliding. With both sides pushing against each other, wouldnt the men in the front lines be literally squished and splattered simply from feeling the push of two armies on their fronts and backs? (like a giant sandwich).
My second question has a bit to do with the front line of a force being hit by the rest of its unit, but this question is about cavalry. In a cavalry charge with the horses galloping towards their target they hit with deadly force and come to a stop quite quickly, wouldnt this stop cause a load of friendly fire? I mean just think about it, you have a bunch of lancers moving forward at 30 or so mph and the front line of lancers comes to a halt.....wouldnt the rest simply not have time to slow and end up spearing their allies?
My last question is about when lancers hit their targets. If a lancer hits a lightly armored target dead center in the chest, wouldnt the lane get stuck in the target?
Also thanks to anyone that takes the time to read or comment. also i thought i should add a video in reference to the sandwich thing. you can clearly see that both sides are pushing on their front lines with the force of ever rank. https://youtu.be/HdNn5TZu6R8?t=1m37s
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First question here, hope it's not too vague. It just seems to me that there was more long-term will to help rebuild these societies after WWII, that maybe we haven't had since? Did it have to do with the influence of certain military figures, like MacArthur in Japan?
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I understand the historical significance of most artifacts but why do we not document them and respectfully return them.
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