Hello, as the title says I'm curious as to the rules/regulations on bringing back items from various wars (WWII,Vietnam,Afghanistan,Iraq,etc) For example when someone's grandfather took back a pistol off a dead SS officer or something like that. Does the military have some sort of protocol for soldiers when they come back to the states?

I'm starting to think a university job might not be the best for me. Is it easier to land a job at a museum or heritage association with an MA in Medieval Studies than with one in Medieval History?

I hope this question doesn't infringe the rules.

What role did the Soviet navy play in WW2?

I know in the Eastern front they assisted with the Invasion of Sakhalin during the last days of WW2, but I'd imagine they did very little on the Eastern front for most of the war since Japan and the Soviet Union had a neutrality pact.

I'm particularly interested in the Western front. Were they just bottled up in the Baltic and Black seas? What about when St. Petersburg (Leningrad) was under seige? Did they even have a navy in the Baltic during that time?

and did a state of war remain between it and the USSR post ww2? and if so where there any organized military operations that happened?

I can't find squat about it on the web. My father worked on a vehicle by that name when I was a kid in the early 90s at either picatinny arsenal or natick. It was some kind of mobile command center shoved into an APC that got scrapped due to the cost. I believe it got tested out in the gulf but I'm not sure.

Sorry if this is the wrong place I'll delete if so, just couldn't find a more suitable sub that wasn't dead. also not sure if it beats the 20 year rule I was very young so I'm not exactly positive on the timeline.

Considering the fact that Rome and Carthage were large trading partners and Rome destroyed it. Do we have any evidence that suggests Rome went through an economic downturn?

I have a very small understanding of world history, especially within the last hundred or so years. I really want to understand world events, especially with regard to the countries and regions affected by U.S. foreign policy, but also just understanding the status of the world that I live in. Obviously I'm not looking for political opinions, but rather resources on where I can learn and do my own research. I wouldn't even really be able to make a list of the countries I'm talking about. I need pointers on where to start. I'm interested in how countries formed, who the different people groups are, the roots of conflicts around the world, etc.

Basically, if I were running for president, I want to know enough that I could sound like I know what I'm talking about on foreign policy. (Not necessarily enough to be elected, just a general idea. haha.)

The moustache, the hair. Were they styled to make him some sort of icon and different from everyone else, or was he normal looking to the German people of that era?

I was reading a bunch of threads on Reddit about slavery and the general thought that keeps coming up is that slaves were considered another person's property (although I'm aware that the extent of this differs per time period and culture). In many hollywood films, most recently 12 years a slave, we are shown that black slaves in the deep south of the United States are punished to the point of incapacitation and even death.

However to me this doesn't seem logical. If slaves were indeed considered your property, why would you punish them to such an extent that they can't fulfill their function anymore? I know the Belgian king Leopold II is infamous for cutting of the hands of the slaves in the Belgian Congo for not working hard enough. But then how are they going to work without hands? This, to me, seems akin to going to town on my television set with a sledgehammer because the volume button's stuck.

So my question is, were slaves, at least in the European colonies during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, really punished as brutally as often depicted?

A Chilean professor visited us to give a lecture. He off-handedly mentioned that there was a plan to invade the Philippines to liberate the land from Spanish rule, much like the botched Mexican invasion of Cuba.

Can anyone give more information on this?

I was wondering: what happened to Crassus' vast holdings after his death at Carrhae? I understand that his son died at Carrhae, but he was survived by his daughter. How did Roman inheritance laws work, and was it any different in Crassus' case?

I read on another subreddit that modern jihadism and fundamentalism essentially arose from the Mongol invasions of the Middle East. Is there any truth in this?

Either head of state or head of government, who either commanded from the front, maybe even fighting himself, or something similar, taking personal charge of a battle, for instance.