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How likely was a guard for the concentration labor camp at Auschwitz likely used to augment those at the death camp for the unloading of trains?	1
Can someone confirm these figures for white slavery in the Maghrib (16th-18th centuries)? For instance, the attrition rate per year was 20% in the 17th century (the author says it may have been higher than Africans in the New World in the same period).	1
Was there an educational divide between Vietnam War protestors and supporters, between those who went to college and those who didn't?	1
In the 5 years after Hong Kong's ownership was transferred to China, what were expectations people had about that, what did actually change and what predictions didn't pan out by the end of 2002?	1
How different or similar were the lives of slaves and serfs in Russia before the abolishment of slavery in 1720s? And did serfdom change after the 1720s as a result of the end to slavery?	1
Did your primary crop shape your society?	1
When Andrew Jackson implemented the spoils system, was their public outcry over what looked like corruption by his opponents? What was resistance to the spoils system like?	1
The 1964 Zanzibar Revolution resulted in the deaths of thousands of Arabs and South Asians who were more likely to have been part of the ruling class than Africans. What was the international reaction to the massacre? And is there consensus whether this was class-based or racially-based violence?	1
What did free black and abolitionist societies that pre-dated the Civil War do during the Reconstruction?	1
What was the state of popular music in Russia / the USSR from the Russian Revolution to end of the Stalin Era? Was there an outburst of artistic pop music during Lenin's open times? Was there any popular music being recorded at all, or were foreign records more popular	1

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