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How was the Red Army during WW2 organized? What types of divisions existed and how did the Order of Battle look?	1
Why was there no unified HRE navy?	1
What was the point of the "classical education" and "humanist gymnasiums" in the Germany of the 1700s to 1900s? What practical application did this have? Why was thus pursued over more useful subjects, such as math or science?	1
Are there cases of normal foot soldiers making it all the way to the rank of a general during the span of WW1 and WW2? If so, how did they fix the problem of not having any strategic knowledge and there being no time to learn it all at a military academy due to the war?	1
Was there ever a chance of Germany successfully defending against the D-Day landings and what would a failed D-Day have meant for the war as a whole?	1
It is easy to say that the Axis powers lost WW2 right from the start, but can the same be said about the Central Powers in WW1? Was that war also lost from the start or was there some chance of a victory, especially after the Russians left?	1
What was the aim of the Kapp Putsch? Was it the reestablishment of a German monarchy or the implementation of an autocratic state similar to the Third Reich?	1
From reading the Wikipedia article about it, Bulgaria did not initially join the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union and otherwise also did not participate in any fighting. But it is not quite clear from the article, if it stayed this way all the way until 1944 or if they later joined the fighting.	1
Is a monarchy inherently bad or does it have some advantages over a democracy?	1
Why was Haiti twice declared an Empire? It had no Imperial tradition, didn't have enough power to justify a status equivalent to that of the first French Empire, and nobody would respect their claim to Empire anyway. It also did not fulfill any of the definitions of Empire, to my knowledge.	1

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