Apart from general reasons like war-weariness and worries about the damage to European allies.

I have read that some people, like John Von Neumann, advocated going to war with the Soviets to prevent them from attaining the bomb. The US had a substantial lead in nuclear arms into the 50's even after the USSR developed the bomb.

Cave painting and ancient clay figurines all look so whacky. I know that our minds have evolved so much over thousands of years, but I was curious if there was early human artwork that looked real.

If this is the wrong sub, kindly direct me to the right place!

Also, how about press censorship and the conflicts with the student organizations (Burschenschaften)? These were very tumultuous times in the German states.

Customs is the only function I could think of that has greatly weakened in authority. What else could I look at to try and look into the people that backed the major politicians of the time period?

My grandfather was an ethnic German born and raised in Yugoslavia. He voluntarily joined the German army during WWII, but claimed he was only Waffen SS. He and his family emigrated to the US after WWII. Whenever anyone (i.e. doctors, nurses) would inquire about the SS tattoo on the inside of his upper arm, he woukd tell them it was a blood type tattoo and that all soldiers got them.

I don't know a lot about his history in the nazi army - only that he served some of his time in Finland and eventually surrendered in France. He did his time in a US run POW camp until after the war ended and he was released.

He also claimed no one knew about the genocide against the jews and the concentration camps until after the war was over.

I have always wondered if there was more to his involvement in the SS than he admitted to. Does his story hold water from an historical perspective?

Just to clarify, the tattoo was of an "SS" in the style of the Nazi party, fairly small- maybe an inch and a half high, perhaps smaller. The tattoo did not actually state a blood type.

The odds of two units derived independently being interchangeable to infinite precision with just two decimal places seems unlikely, so I'm guessing that at some point one unit was slightly modified to match the other. When did this happen and which unit was changed?

I've been reading mixed things on this - some claim this was just Nazi propaganda, others say there really was an economic miracle, but it was due to a "natural" recovery, not anything the Nazis did. Is there any historical consensus on this?

I know this is a very broad topic, as the Ottoman Empire lasted for hundreds of years. I hope it's okay to ask it though. I searched and didn't find a similar question in here, but if it's a repost, I am sorry.

I have read, that Christians and Jews were allowed to follow their beliefs under Ottoman and therefor muslim rule and were even able to reach higher levels in the bureaucracy. But were there any ramifications?

For exapample: I read somewhere, they had to pay additional taxes, but is there any truth to that? If so, was that all? Did the women have to wear a hijab or burqa? Were they allowed to join the military or were they considered a risk because of their differing beliefs? Were they generally considered equals as long as they didn't break the law(s) or were they second/third class in a way? I think you catch the drift my question is going. Thank you.

I remember reading a while back about some books that were omitted from the collection we now know as the Bible, because the church decided they didn't want it in there. Who got to call the shots on that, and when did it happen?

Were they used often, and if so by whom? Were one handed and two handed axes used and what would be the advantages of both?

For example Norway, Sweden and northern Russia. Why did people live there, especially in Norway, where the surrounding climate was so terribly hostile? What caused them to stay, were there just not any other parts of Europe and Asia where they felt that they could stay (as in, being outlaws, fanting to be seperate, etc.)?

Thank you so much in advance. This has been bugging me for a while, why my ancestors bothered living here!

I hear a lot about the trenches and No Man's Land of WWI, but never anything about why it was such a common tactic. Had other armies used it in the past?

I took this picture from a mid 19th c. friendship album. It appears to be a puzzle one friend made for another. Is there a name for this kind of puzzle? Anyone have any ideas what it says/means?

I am thinking, of course, of the United States under the Articles of Confederation, where the federal government was notoriously weak and the states more-or-less ran their own affairs.

Have any other counties attempted to do the same?

How did Germany handle these troops? Did they have units of foreign fighters, or did they assimilate them into regular German units?

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As a side question, do you find that the media (and others outside the discipline) misuse the terms frequently?