The reason that I ask this is since I am Dutch (sorry for my English in advance), so we get to hear and read a lot about those Jews hiding in Dutch houses, and we get told that we have to be so proud. But when you now hear about wars happening right now, a lot of cases are known that the people who have to be hid have to suffer from abuse . The Jews had to listen to their helpers , otherwise they would die. Are there cases known where that led to abuse? I once read something about a man abusing the daughter of a Jewish family that hid in his house, and that the parents had to accept the situation because otherwise the man would throw them out.
So, was the situation really that beautiful or are there also some black pages?
Thanks in advance for answering
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Was there anything like dungeons and dragons earlier than the 20th century? What about LARPs or strategy games?
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We always hear about how most people just after the outbreak of World War I thought that the war was going to be over very quickly, from the generals down to the privates to the civilians. How could they be so blind? These countries had built up huge militaries and supplied them with the deadliest weapons known to man in huge numbers. It seems obvious to us that those factors combine to create a very long war of attrition. What was their thinking?
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Honestly, i've tried to read up on this but there is so much information to process and I have trouble understanding it.
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The scenario I'm imagining: a Han man and a Han woman living in an urban center get married and have a child (let's say a healthy son so there's no chance they'll be able to get special dispensation to have a second child). Man and woman get divorced. Man marries a second woman who has no children. Can they have a child? Or does the child from the first marriage 'count' as the product of the second marriage also? What if the sexes are reversed, and it's the woman with a child who gets remarried to a childless man? If either of these scenarios were allowed to have a child, was one more likely to end in state-sanctioned pregnancy than the other? Would the answer change if the first spouse had died rather than been divorced?
And to that point, was sterilization ever common after the birth of the first child? Like, would the man get a vasectomy to ensure that he couldn't have a second child? Or would the woman have a tubal ligation? Or would they just use contraceptives, abortion, and optimism to keep from having a second child?
Or is this assuming it was a far more defined practice than the policy actually was?
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I've been reading a lot of BC Greek and Persian history and noted that there are a large amount of Greeks in parts of modern Turkey. As far as I know, there are very few Greeks hanging around in these areas today. Is this the fault of the ottomans, attatürk, some earlier displacement? Was it voluntary or tantamount to ethnic cleansing?
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Me and a friend were talking about this, and realize that the civil war and wild west and escapes from slavery lend themselves more to epics than to all the other things we hear in most "Americana" material, but we don't seem to really have any long folk epics.
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Also, it seems like they ate a lot of meat. When did the whole "Mediterranean diet" take hold there - e.g. eating lots of fish, vegetables, fruits, nuts and whole grains?
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Hey all,
I'm looking to find out about the war-time activity of my recently deceased grandfather during WWII, and I figured this subreddit would be the place to come and maybe find out how. His name was William James Raynor, and lived in Omaha, NE as an extremely successful stock broker after the war. He rarely ever spoke about his activities, which I understand is common in people who see intense combat. Much of his activity was classified, but it's possible that those documents have been declassified in recent years. We simply don't know, and have no idea where to start looking. Here is what we know from what he said, or what we could get out of his war time buddies.
He was drafted into the army because of his knowledge of money and finances. He acted as a counter-spy, tracking German and Italian spies in the middle east and southern Russia using money trails, among other things.
He was involved in protecting the supply line that provided spam and other essentials to Russian troops via the middle east, part of this program.
He made his way into Europe, and saw the aftermath of concentration camps. I heard him speak only once on this subject, and simply stated that he was there. He wouldn't say more, and I could tell this memory really bothered him.
He was in the room with Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt during the Tehran conference, providing security for Roosevelt. He sat a few feet from Stalin, and at one point caught a Russian spy by accident. He related this experience to us at length.
He was part of a team that was tasked with capturing Mussolini, but failed when the dictator was caught by partisans. There is a picture online of Mussolini hanging upside down, and a man that looks very similar to my grandfather is standing in the foreground with his back to the camera. We think this was him. I will do my best to find this picture, although I'm not sure if it will help. Can't seem to find it online right now.
He saw intense combat in the middle east, most likely engaging middle easterners themselves. We know for certain that he had violent interactions with Palestinians. I will say that as a naive child of maybe 8 or 9 I asked him if he had ever killed anyone, and he deflected by simply showing me how to properly kill a man in hand-to-hand combat with a knife. I remember seriously regretting the question, and being lectured on why he had not given me a straight answer. The consensus among my family is that he killed quite a few people, and engaged in torture.
Any useful information regarding him, or how to find out about his activities during and after WWII would be hugely appreciated by my family and I. He went on to live an extraordinary life after the war, becoming very successful, contributing a great deal to his community, and raising a wonderful family.
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Obviously the American mafia originated and had ties to Italy during their time, but did those who remained in Italy see them as lesser crime bosses? Were the Americans different in any way? Did both sides share respect for one another?
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I mean Rome under the Roman Empire
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There is a bit of debate online about the question at hand. There appears to be two dead bodies on the table in front of the group of standing men. But whether or not the men in the coffins are dead or alive is in question. They don't appear to have rigor mortis. If they are dead, it could mean they are fresh corpses or else they have been there a while (and embalmed already) as rigor mortis goes away after a time. If this were the case then they would look to be examples of the embalmer's work on display.
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Specifically, I mean do is there a lot of disagreement and debate, or do historians largely agree on one particular interpretation of events? Is there anyone who argues that members of the Nazi party carried out setting the fire, either on Hitler's orders or of their own volition? Or is the narrative that the disgruntled Dutch communist van der Lubbe was responsible considered more convincing?
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like in handwritten letters, and things like that or was everything in enigma
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I'd also like to know the first game ever distributed and played, if the two are not the same. The game's original version doesn't have to be created for the PC. For example, Colossal Cave Adventure was originally created for the PDP-10, but was a PC version also the first game to exist for the PC?
^^I ^^hope ^^this ^^is ^^not ^^confusing!
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