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Nazi Germany raised numerous foreign legions from POWs and collaborators. There was even an unsuccessful attempt at forming a "British Free Corps", but was there ever an "American Free Corps"?	4
Did the Roman Army perform the same sort of ceremonial duties, for example, parades or honour guards, that we might associate with armies today?	4
During the Cold War, how did Soviet ideology interpret Western democracies that were prepared to go against the U.S., like France, or those that developed strong welfare states, like the Nordic countries?	3
Did the Tsarist Okhrana have any direct influence on the Soviet Cheka/NKVD/KGB?	3
A post on /r/HistoryPorn today shows a black U.S. Federal agent enforcing Prohibition. With that in mind, what is the history of black lawmen in the time of Jim Crow?	3
A common trope in fantasy and sci-fi is a wounded warrior refusing medicine as "dishonourable", but was this ever actually the case?	3
During World War II, Stafford Cripps, the British ambassador to Moscow, was briefly considered to be a likely replacement for Churchill as Prime Minister. It is safe to say that he is not widely known today. What made Cripps so popular in his time?	3
How did Albert of Prussia manage to convert to Lutheranism and form the lands of the Teutonic Order into a secular duchy under his rule without facing massive resistance?	3
How did Islamic conversion practices during the Muslim Conquests compare to contemporary Christian practices? Were they any more or less coercive?	3
In The Hunt For Red October, Marko Ramius is a Lithuanian who rises to become one of the Soviet Navy's most respected submarine officers. But is real life, was a non-Russian ever entrusted with a strategic Soviet asset like a ballistic missile submarine?	3

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