So I just finished an episode of the "Band of Brothers" series where they discovered a concentration camp full of starving Jews and other prisoners and it got me thinking about how the Allies reacted to these discoveries. Did they really force the Jews to remain in the camps due to lack of space in the town? Were local Germans actually forced to dig graves and move the bodies?

These states (West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama) are some of the poorest states in the United States, why are they so poor? I just heard that it was because some of the most intense fighting in the US Civil War occurred in these states and the affects are still lingering. Is there any validity in that claim?

There's a lot of evidence for armour, weapons, tools and other such objects made in bronze, and from what I can find, some simple tools made from copper before copper alloys were discovered. Obviously copper is much weaker than bronze, but I wonder how advanced metalworking got before copper became obsolete. Was there copper armour? Copper arrows? What did it look like stylistically? How complex was it? Any information would be great :)

Due to Tesla's recent troubles in selling cars its come to the public light that not only are cars in the U.S. primarily sold through car dealerships, in many states this is required by law. How did we get here? Specifically how did these two scenarios come to be:

1. Cars are sold primarily through dealerships instead of car manufacturers.

2. Laws are written in many states requiring that car sales go through dealerships and banning car manufacturers from selling cars directly.

I came here since a cursory search through Google and then Reddit did not give any answer to this question. I was hoping someone in /r/AskHistorians would know, or at least know where to find someone who would know (maybe another subreddit).

As the title says.

4 Shermans against 1 Tiger. All of the Sherman commanders just about brown their trousers while the Tiger eliminates 3 of the tanks (and crew), while wounding the 4th before it is destroyed.

Let's all ignore that 4 Shermans head-on charging 1 Tiger is possibly the worst attack plan ever and was simply shown to create drama. Tanking 101, spread out and make them swivel that turret.

From the book:

After about 50 kilometers we were out of the wooded area. Before us was a little village, which we ventured slowly to approach. They seemed to take us for Russians when we explained who we were an old woman approached us.

"Is it war?" She asked us. "What's our little father doing, the tsar?"

It turns out these people remained unaware of the Russian revolution, Stalin and our war with Russia. Here time seemed to stand still. Here there was no party functionary. We lingered in the village and tried to explained what had happend side Russia had lost her tsar.

I know the question of what race where ancient Egyptians gets asked a lot, but it almost always goes in the direction of race wasn't an ancient Egyptian social construct.

I've been wondering more precisely and have had trouble finding out what race(s)/ethnicities did they physically resemble and were related to especially before they were influenced by Alexander.

Pretty general question, but love to hear different opinions on the subject.

Thank you for your response :)

I'm not gunna even try and lie, this is for a piece of course work, HOWEVER, I dont want essay plans or anything, Im actually interested in what historians think about this time period, as their introduction HAS revolutionized the way in which wars are fought. Fire away!

I also heard that they welcomed many fugitive Nazis, but this seemed to be the case in most of South America. I still wonder why this is. I know that a fellow redditor asked about Argentina having been welcoming to the Nazis - do explanations like the ones given apply to South America as a whole? I'm from Peru and have never heard of the country giving refuge to Nazis.

Examples are J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois.

Do there exist 19th century texts that attempted to accurately describe or represent the speech patterns or dialect that we now call African American Vernacular English? Are books like "Huckleberry Finn" reasonably accurate in the way that they depicted African American speech patterns during that period, or are they exaggerations?

I assume that many depictions of African American speech during that period, such as minstrel shows, were principally concerned with so-called "comedy" rather than faithful representations of speech patterns.