/r/askhistorians
Why did Nazis see Slavs and Baltic people as üntermenschen to be exterminated (Generalplan Ost), while there were no comparable plans for peoples of other occupied lands such as Greek, despite Greeks being typically far less “Aryan” in appearance.
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How come so many contemporary English words about spycraft are French words? (espionage, sabotage, reconnaissance, coup, rogue, etc...)
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What happened to people in jail during the Great Depression? If the public could barely afford to live how could prisoners? Did any of them die from starvation or were they all adequately fed?
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How did enslaved people in the U.S. find spouses/people they fell in love with? Did the enslaved population have a unique dating or courtship culture? Especially considering large plantation settings.
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Why do we seemingly accept the massive numbers given by Roman sources about their battles in antiquity, but disregard others as being "exaggerations"? What's the evidence that 80,000 Romans did in fact fight ar Cannae, and that this is not just another wild big number Polybius uses for impact?
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Is there any genuine historical reason Abe Simpson has for refusing to recognize Missouri as a state, or is it just a random absurd joke?
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When Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" was allowed to be seen in Germany in 1958, what were audience reactions? Did it have any role in de-Nazification?
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