I've heard conflicting claims about Hitler's beliefs, with people saying he's Atheist, a Deist, Catholic or NeoPagan. What was he really? Do we know? Claims of Atheism seem unlikely, considering Atheists were barred from the SS, but I'm not certain of this claim either.

I've always thought that the reason nazism got so big in Germany in the 1930's was because of the economical crisis, but lately i've been thinking that this might not be the only factor, considering how not only the poor germans supported Hitler, but also the rich upper class.

The same goes for Greece today. Is it only because of the economical crisis, or are there any more or as important reasons for the uprising of extreme ideologies?

I appreciate if you could support your answers with examples.

Any comparisons, pros/cons, or opinions would be so very helpful.

In regards to each word of the phrase.

Were there museums in the age of, say, Alexander? What did they display? When did they become commonplace? Did they do historical research?

Strangely, I can't seem to find this anywhere.

I've been visiting a lot of museums, and something struck me. Once you go past the Neolithic period, you barely see any agricultural or everyday life tools. I understand that wood and other organic materials get eaten by the passing of time more easily. So that explain the lack of clothes or fishnet. Where are the hammers head, plows and needles ? Is it just a display choice to attract more visitors or archeological sites are really lacking them ?

It's such a ubiquitous symbol and it occured to me that if Jesus hypothetically were to return today, he would probably wouldn't recognise what it meant straight away because as far as his life goes it wasn't exactly omnipresent.

Was it used almost straight away? Was its use started by the Church, or started on its own by followers and then taken up by the Church?

I'm currently in the middle of a research paper about the origins of traditional "southern food". Of course, right next to the fried chicken and greens, in many of our minds, is a solid hunk of cornbread. I'm actually having an extremely hard time finding any sources about cornbread itself; specifically if Native Americans were preparing anything similar to what we see today as cornbread, or if they stuck more to cornmeal and grits style products. Anything that could be shared on the topic would be greatly appreciated.

How did the West become so enthralled with mediums, psychics, and spiritualists during the early twentieth century?

We recently covered this topic in my APUSH class and I wanted to hopefully receive some outside knowledge from you all to get a better grasp of the correct belief; at least the most correct one.

I started watching a show called Turn which is set during the Revolution and there was a scene with bandits decked out with Guy Fawkes masks on. This is the first time I've ever heard of Guy Fawkes associated in any way with the revolution, but as someone who did try to blow up the British parliament did any of the patriots come to take him up as a symbol of rebellion in any way?

... did they start over?

... did they cross it off and just keep going?

... or did they chisel out a square part and put some form of replacement insert?

Trying to imagine what the cooking of various cultures of North America would have been like? I assume they cared as much about eating and took as much care with food preparation as we do, but they had:

• no dairy products, no milk, no butter, no cheese

• no pork, no mutton, no beef -- only venison and on the plains, buffalo

• no poultry -- wild turkey, goose, passenger pigeon, but only as game, no convenient domestic birds

• so, no eggs except as a special seasonal find

• no fat except animal fat from game animals

• no sugar except wild honey

• away from the coasts, not a lot of fish

• no starch except maize (sego root?) (wild rice?)

Also, pre-European influence, no metal implements, no knives, no fry pans or grills. Just pottery, baskets, flaked-stone blades, wooden spoons.

So as a foodie I'm trying to imagine how these distant people would have cooked under these limits. What would they have regarded as "comfort food", and what was a special meal or banquet like?

The natives in the Indies plainly weren't going to fall into the category of Old Christians. Were they viewed as suspiciously as conversos?

How does this square with the Inquisition's dealing with them? As I understand it, the Inquisition's jurisdiction explicitly excluded native populations because the Catholic faith was not yet mature with them, but isn't it odd that the very instrument for religious orthodoxy wasn't used to ensure an orthodox development of the faith among the natives?

By "Medieval Ages" I am primarily looking for pre-1600's stuff, it can even date back to B.C.E. , I am just rather curious as to what some people actually fell for and what others got away with.

I have heard of sales of fake 'relics' as well as shaving down coins for precious metals while keeping coin value, but that can't be it, can it?

I remember in this game I had called Medieval 2: Total War the merchants in the game could acquire a trait called "Trick abacus" where the description was something along the lines of "You see, when you carry the two over here you end up owing 100 florins more..."

So basically stuff along those lines. Thank you for any insight you can provide!