• Did SS soldiers receive better training?
• Were SS soldiers more ideologically aligned with the Nazi party?
• Would German regular soldiers look down on SS soldiers? Vice-versa?
• Finally, who conceived of the SS and why were they needed (as opposed to just using regular military units)?

Particularly during war. Was the condition medically recognised? Or were they accused of treasonous behaviour for being unable to fight with valour?

Frederick Stockley was born in Wesleyville, Newfoundland, and joined the First Newfoundland Regiment when he was 19, in March of 1917. (Regiment # 3518) He was "killed in action" on March 11 of 1918.

I have other records thanks to my local museum such as his enlistment papers and medical records, telegraphs that his parents sent, report of death, etc.

My first question is, how would he be KIA? I did some research and found that the nearest battle of WWI to his death would be the Second Battle of the Somme in late March. Does anybody have any ideas?

Another question I have is what other information would be good to know about a soldier? I am submitting a short biography to a program my University is doing called "Memorial Remembers" and was hoping to give my grandfather a copy as well, since it is his father's cousin I am researching.

Thank you so much for your help, and I'm sorry if anything I asked was dumb! :(

After Ceaser came to power in Rome as an emperor, was democracy ever practiced in the west until the American Revolution?

The recently delivery of a French-made warship to Russia has made me wonder if the USSR's weaponry was entirely domestic.

I'm aware they acquired plenty of American weaponry during WW2. I just wonder how much if any weaponry from neutral or even western countries they purchased. Even purchases from other Warsaw Pact/Socialist countries would be surprising.

I recently found out from my mother (at 30...no idea how this never came up before) that, according to she and her sister's beliefs, that my grandparents & great grandparents who traveled from Lithuania in WWII were in fact ethnically Jewish. Apparently they spoke fluent yiddish and dismissed any question as to why, their best friends in Lithuania were Jewish, but my family escaped Russian persecution of landowners in Lithuania through NAZI (!) Germany. My granduncle was forcibly conscripted into the NAZI army and my grandmother was arrested and eventually released by the SS. The events in Germany have now become much more interesting and also unbelievable after finding out that they were most probably ethnic Jews that had been converted to Catholicism by their father a few decades earlier (how serious the conversion was is unknown). I wonder if their weirdness about never talking about family remaining in Europe was a holdover of their fear of anyone finding out they were really Jewish since they were convinced that the NAZI attitude would rise again within their lifetime. So now I have decided to try and track down my actual family tree, but we don't know if any of the names we "know" are accurate etc. I ordered one of those geneology.com DNA tests, so I can at least find out if the story is true insomuch as being a descendant of ethnic Jews, but if that turns out to be true I really want to find out as much as I can. Does anyone who has successfully tracked down their family tree when there was a lot of hiding or obfuscation? Any helpful tips are greatly appreciated.

As everyone says "It was Communism" but by definition communism is a stateless, classless, money less society and if you look at the Soviet Union you know they had all three of them. Even with some forms of socialism means of production was split between state and the people and looking at the Soviet Union it looked like the people had no say whats so ever, there was no democracy in the work force.

If the city collected tolls or taxes or such, why wouldn't traders just go around?

I have some Sami and Norwegian heritage and would like to know more about the Sami people in general and their role in history.

This is my first post in AskHistorians, and I'm interested in a degree in History, so any info about that would also be appreciated!

Yeah, you'll say this is often asked, but I don't mean the Generalplan, I mean what they wanted to do more internally.

Ex: Was Japan's goal to conquer Asia or rather create puppets states all over the place?

Was Germany's plan to have all of their conquered lands under the direct government of Hitler? Or were their planning to have a government like what Spain did with the viceroys in America?

What would happen with the rest of the world that wasn't involved (heavily) in WW2? Like Chile or Argentina?

Was Africa going to be part of Germany or would have the Germans released Satellite States?

What was Germany's real intention? German superiority or simply making a one thousand years empire?

Did Hitler have a plan if they were losing the war but the Soviets accepted a peace without them getting to Berlin (Hitler not commiting suicide)?

Well, I don't think I have anymore questions.

The most famous Japanese atrocity occurred in Nanjing, but it occurred during the first year of the Second Sino-Japanese War. I know things like the comfort women continued throughout the war, but did Japanese troops sustain these kind of massive massacres whenever they captured cities? Or was there a shift over time (whether less or more), and if so, what caused it? Did the creation of the Reorganized National Government of China change anything in terms of the conduct of Japanese troops?

Today anyone with horses will tell you that not having shoes on them can lead to hoof injuries. Were horses used extensively for work before the advent of horseshoes? If so, did they prevent hoof injuries before horseshoes were a thing?

If it didn't, why do you believe that is? I understand forward time travel exists in multiple mythos, so why not backwards?