Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
Overlooked questions: does anyone know the answer to /u/mykeedee's question how much the conquest of Gaul would have affected the average Gallic farmer? I'm curious about this because I have a friend from a very small town in the southwest of France, and his grandfather told him that in the entirety of WW2 he never once saw a German. If this is true, I suspect the average farmer in Roman Gaul would have even less of a clue.
Edit: also I'm gonna go ahead and post /u/yodatsracist's two-part explanation of the context of the Armenian Genocide because it is excellent and two hours ago it was still this week.
I really enjoyed /u/kieslowskifan's answer to In Austrian historiography, what precisely is the "Habsburg Myth?"
A bit late, but here we go:
/u/anthropology_nerd on "When did the view of Native Americans in the United States switch from "savages" to "a wronged people""
/u/commiespaceinvader answered "What is the concensus on the "Weak Dictator" theory of Hitler and the cause of the Holocaust." as well as "Did the Nazis make any contributions to the medical field?"