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.
I found /u/commiespaceinvader's response to the question "In Nazi Germany, were German prisoners who were placed in concentration camps (homosexuals, political foes, etc) treated any differently than Jewish prisoners?" really powerful, and completely blood-chilling.
/u/Commustar's succinct answer to the question "What would get a man with an Anglo name classified as "Complexion: Yellow" on his enlistment into the US Colored Infantry during the Civil War?" clarifies one of the oddities of 19th century racial terminology.
Perhaps not an overlooked thread, as it reached the front page, but this detailed answer to Would a young person or child from the "American West" in 1875 to 1900 know how to make an animal sound of an exotic animal? - by u/sunagainstgold - was rather remarkable. The question seemed as if the best one could hope for would be a couple of quotes from autobiographies, but there turned out to be much more.
I want to give a special thanks to /u/Zooasaurus who answered my month old question about Ottoman Akinji!
u/hillsonghoods's answer to https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/85gasc/boy_bands_are_typically_not_particularly/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/861j9a/how_did_the_idea_that_the_heart_is_the_source_of/ were (typically) brilliant; also really appreciated u/ecdc05 on https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/85q9ff/where_did_the_mystery_storytelling_cliche_that/ and u/mikedash on https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/860spi/how_were_medieval_mayors_like_say_mayor_walworth/
/u/yodatsracist answered "I saw an article today claiming that the "missionary" position derives its name from Native Americans/Africans who saw missionaries having sex. How true is this?"
/u/kieslowskifan on "Why was August von Mackenson not killed in the Night of the Long Knives?"
/u/terminus-trantor on "What caused both Portugal and Spain to favor Amerigo Vespucci over Christopher Columbus?"
I really enjoyed /u/restricteddata's answers in How did scientiest go about designing and testing the first nuclear reactors, and how did it go?
(Hope the formatting worked. my computer was glitching out.)