Nazi death camps included gay people, atheists, gypsies and other groups as well as the Jewish religion; what's the correct way to refer to the entire tragedy?

Superman and Batman wear them though they provide none/limited usefulness (respectively). Not much use for Thor and Robin, either.

How did a fabric traditionally worn by rural people in the UK come to be associated with professors and city-dwelling intellectuals in the US?

Why not other beaches in France (assuming there were less fortified or more advantageous beaches in which to land in France) or beaches in other countries for that matter? As far as I know, the Germans guarded almost the entire European coastline against an allied invasion, but did the Germans fortify (with pillboxes, metal tripods, barbed wires, etc.) the entire coastline? It always struck me as odd how many soldiers so easily lost their lives during the initial waves of the invasion. Obviously, it was a success, but in hindsight, was it the best choice?

Hey /r/AskHistorians,

The question might seem a little off, but I was talking with a French friend of mine from Montpellier and he mentioned that he was taught in school that the clergy-controlled uneducated French voters from the rural areas voted for Napoleon III due to some sort of confusion that he was his famous uncle.

Can anybody familiar with the time period expand on this or prove it wrong? It'd be greatly appreciated.

By the time Gagarin did his thing there was no lack of enmity between the US and the USSR, as well as jealousy on the American side for the superior Soviet space program. Was jealousy the only thing Americans felt for Gagarin or was there also a sense of pride on a whole-human-race level for such an achievement?

more than one generation?

Was atheism strictly enforced? Could you be killed for professing to be a Christian?

I'm currently reading "A Vision" by W. B. Yeats and he quotes Heraclitus, among other Greek philosophers, frequently throughout the text. However, there's one quote I really love and I wondered where I could find it in Heraclitus' work so that I could have some context, or at least be able to find it in it's original Greek. The quote is "Here the thought of Heraclitus dominates all: 'Dying each other's life, living each other's death'."

The best example I can give was the journey of columbus to the US. We learned that he discovered america, that he landed at plymouth rock, etc.

How did it come about that these inaccuracies were taught to us in school as fact. Are they still taught today?

California is Sacramento; Nevada is Carson City; New York is Albany; etc. None of these are even close to the largest cities for their states. But then in Canada, Toronto is the Capital for Ontario; Quebec is BC; etc., and these are the largest cities in those provinces. So, why are the States so different?

Why were so many German war criminals convicted at Nuremberg or the later trials, and sentenced to death or life imprisonment then released in the 1950s?

What effects did Alexander's campaigns in northern India have on the population and its culture, as well as that of people further east?

I know that Indians and Greeks had some contact for centuries, however I believe this contact wasn't particularly strong. What did the Indians and people further east make of this powerful, Macedonian army marching all the way from Greece to India, defeating all the armies that it came against and subjugating civilizations? Did it change the native beliefs at all? How strongly did Hellenistic culture affect the native cultures?

And if I may ask a followup: Were there any such 9/11 equivalents in other historical nations as well, besides Rome?