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I am a Highschool senior doing my essay on "The Perception Of Nazism" and whether these perceptions are trustworthy. So far I have Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf, Goebbels Propaganda, Shirers Rise and Fall and Speers Inside the Third Reich. I was wondering however if i should include the Diary of Anne Frank. She isnt a historian but she is a primary source. Thoughts please?

Stalin's autopsy showed that he had died of a simultaneous stroke in the brain and a stomach haemorrhage, the co-happenstance of which seems unlikely - that is, unless Stalin had taken a high dose of warfarin. Beria openly declared he had killed Stalin in an effort to shore up support for him to be his successor. However, even under interrogation (and presumably torture) he never made mention of poison of any kind.

After doing some rudimentary reading, it looks like there are conflicting views on this (with what seems to be Sebag-Montefiore vs. everyone else).

Was it ever proved that Beria killed Stalin, either by his own hand or orders given to the NKVD?

I'm curious who aided Flavius Odovacer in conquering the roman empire? and what was the turning point that it was acknowledged Rome was loosing? thank you in advance.

I see a lot movies where they show troops lining up just standing their waiting to be shot at, than the next line shoots at the enemy. They show often that canon balls explode and grenades, and that to fire a musket, you had to look away from it. Are any of these true? Did cannon balls really explode? Did you actually have to look away from the musket while aiming?

Please provide references/proof.

What I mean by this, is that was it illegal for a white person to use facilities designated for blacks? I doubt that such laws would ever have been enforced, but would it have been technically a crime (on the books) for a white person to drink from the "colored" water fountain?

I have been working on the research for an essay on pacification in the Vietnam war for a while now and have yet to find any online sources that show the Vietnamese perspective. I have been able to find primary sources for the CIA and the US government but when I found Vietnamese sources they were all in book form which I cannot access (it was something called "RAND Interviews Vietnam").

Any help would be appreciated as I have enough to write the essay now but really want to be able to use at least one or two Vietnamese sources as well.

So, I feel bad for asking a question about my focus but one thing I don't know is how the French accent has changed over the years. I know that German accents are very regional to this day and that the British accent has changed over the centuries (and is also regional) but what about the French accent?

Is the French accent currently known the accent of Revolutionary French speakers? And to further the question, do regional accents differ in the same manner over time?

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I'm currently reading a book about the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict. I just finished a chapter on the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and I have a few unanswered questions.

How was the PLO involved in terror attacks? I know it was involved somehow; I just don't understand wether terror was ever explicitly endorsed by the PLO, wether it was something that was directly carried out by the PLO, or something else entirely.

On a somewhat unrelated note, does anybody know of a really good timeline of the Israel-Palestine conflict? A super detailed timeline would be a very helpful thing for me to reference while I'm reading about Palestinian history.

Thanks!

Curious about the truth/myth that the Danish king wore a yellow star, that the Jews were saved, etc.. How did it happen if at all? If not, where did the myth originate?

I've been looking through a lot classifieds from around 1910, specifically the For Sale and Wanted ads (mostly in Oregon), and there are a lot of rail tickets listed. In the ads the people almost always specify what they look like.

For example one woman says "Lady's ticket to Omaha; described stout, light hair and young" another example is "Wanted - Ticket to Chicago or Kansas City, medium, dark."

I've tried looking up photos of tickets on google but from the ones I've seen they don't have any mention of what the people look like. Who needed this information and why? When did the practice begin (and, presumably, eventually end)??

I remember learning that the KKK briefly made some inroads in Western Canada during its early-20th century revival. Did the organization ever turn up anywhere else outside of the United States?

I keep seeing him mentioned as an important figure in Mandaeanism, but I don't really understand why he is considered significant or the connection of the Mandaean John the Baptist to the Christian or Muslim John the Baptist. Also, if anyone could point me to a reliable English translation of Mandaean scripture that'd be right lovely. I've found a site that claims to be an English translation of the German Johannesbuch der Mandäer but I don't really trust it.

I was really curious about the history of racism, and ended up finding some info on "anti-racism." On Wikipedia and other sights, the only information I can find on anti-racism and awareness about racism covers the last 500 years. I feel like ethnicity is less likely to correlate with nationality or life-style, but I still think it's surprising that the concept should be so young.

Does the concept of racism really only go back that far? If so, is there a good explanation for that?

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I am writing a paper for a history class, and would appreciate being pointed towards some appropriate sources for it. I chose my topic when I read an interesting blurb in a book, which essentially stated that a continued commitment to the "Final Solution" hurt the German war effort during the last couple years of the war. One of the examples given in the book is train use: trains which were badly needed to transport troops/materials to and from the front were instead used to transport people to the camps.

I am going to argue that maintaining/expanding the military-industrial complex from 1943-45 devoted to identifying, transporting, and killing vast numbers of individuals (Jews, Slavs, etc) was a poor use of limited resources, and they could have been better utilized for the war effort.

Lastly, is the above point even arguable? I don't mind doing a different one but this one really intrigues me.

Unfortunately, there is nothing about Ireland in the current book list, but I'm wondering which books you guys recommend as a general overview of the history of Ireland.