Shows like Game of Thrones and The Tudors show adultery basically accepted by everyone, and in The Tudors, the king celebrates the birth of his bastard son with a party and fireworks.

Was that normal amongst royalty? Obviously, I'd imagine that it's exaggerate a bit for drama's sake, but what was it like?

I was reading about Anne Frank and learned that while in Auschwitz, she became infected with scabies and was moved to an infirmary. Isn't a place to care for the sick contradictory to Auschwitzs' practice of immediately gassing people who were unfit for work? I'd be interested in any information anyone has about infirmaries in Auschwitz or any other Nazi extermination camp.

So can anyone answer this for me? I was wondering what happened to samurai equipment after the man was killed. Did they keep the weapons and armor for their sons or protégé? Did a family use the same armor for generations and update it over the years? Did each samurai get his own sword or was there a ancestral katana?

I didn't find this question after a cursory search of this subreddit. I hope mods don't delete it. I am extremely curious about how historians think about the world around them. What makes them want to know more about historical events? How has that knowledge helped them in making decisions?

If this question has been answered before, I apologize and requests that someone shares the link for that

I mean isn't it absolutely crazy how a destitute nation could have access to such great minds as to have made the Enigma, Tiger tank, V3 rocket and stermgever?

You always hear claims of how, in an effort to avoid the necessity of a direct mainland invasion, the atomic bomb was used to encourage Japanese leadership to surrender (I understand this is it's own debate). Was the Japanese leadership and citizenry directly prepared to resist a mainland invasion? Were there any contingency plans for a guerrilla war, or a plan to militarize the "average joe's" of Japan, etc?

From my understanding all the gladiators were slaves but I was wondering if there were any free men who trained and fought as a gladiator or if there was someone who sold themselves to a doctore just for the glory of being a gladiator?

Mail armor is known to have a disadvantage from stabs due to the point going through the rings of the mail, but laminar only seems to have a disadvantage when stabbed under the gaps of the segments, like scale, so how come there was a transition from laminar to mail?

Like the title says, I seem to recall reading somewhere (Wikipedia) that during the christianization of Scandinavia, many of the defiant norfolk wore hammer shaped pendants which were symbolic of Thor's Hammer. How much of this is true?

I vaguely remember being told in a bar once that Hitlers first speech writer was a none-practicing jew, totally unsure if this is true or not.

I've been interested in the effects of Napoleon's wars in Europe recently, and this is one thing I don't quite understand. When Napoleon removed the HRE in 1806, I believe 300 German integrated with one another into about 39 or so? I believe that could be one factor. Did revolutionary ideas from France spread or what?

All of the world powers agreed that Korea was rightfully Japanese property, and respected Japanese endeavors in Korea and Taiwan. Why did Japan have a problem with knowing when to stop their imperialism? Korea and Taiwan would probably be a part of Japan today if things didn't go how they did in history.

I'm watching a documentary about the Rape of Nanking and multiple Japanese soldiers are interviewed, admitting horrible crimes, and yet they aren't being sought by international law. Why?