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"More Frenchmen bore arms for the Axis than for the Allies during the Second World War" - Is this true?	1148
Recently had a few beers with some historians and when we talked about TV documentaries one said: "Modern media is creating a better illusion of the Volksgemeinschaft than the Nazis ever could" - do we overestimate how homogenous the society of the 3rd Reich really was?	218
I am a Wehrmacht soldier in March/April 1945 on German soil and got separated from my unit. I don't want to fight anymore. What are my options to survive what do I need to be careful about?	146
What do we know about the experience of the Romanian, Italian, Hungarian and Croatian troops in the Battle of Stalingrad? Does that experience have historical significance in these countries?	106
In "Apocalypse Now" a French colonist in Cambodia speaks about French Army equipment sabotaged by French communists at home. What was the extent of the domestic anti-colonial resistance in France after WW2?	82
In his book about the Battle of Berlin, historian Antony Beevor talks about women "in black uniform" serving in the SS as infantry and driving tanks. What do we know about women in the SS in general and in the late war specifically?	33
In both "First Blood" (1982) and "Apocalypse Now" (1979) two main characters (John Rambo, Colonel Kurtz) suffer from trauma related to their experience as Green Berets in the war in South East Asia. Did this conflict have a special psychological toll on the special forces or soldiers that fought it?	25
Was "everyone" racist at the turn of the 20th century? If so, does this mean historians should not point it out in their research?	24
Was the Western Front of World War I really a continuous, stinking, muddy, inhumane system of parallel lines? Like it is for example often portraied in individual accounts.	22
Did any high ranking German WW2 personnel join the East German Armed Forces when it was founded? Was it comparable to the continuity in the Bundeswehr etc.?	22

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