/u/joshTheGoods's posts in /r/AskHistorians
Rudi Ball, a German Jewish hockey star that played on the German national hockey team during the winter olympics in '36 allegedly struck a deal to play in exchange for his family's safety. Did he, an open Jew, really stay in Germany throughout WWII?
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There's a story in my family about Union soldiers sparing an ancestor's home near the end of the Civil War, presumably during Sherman's March to the Sea. Do we know just how often family homes were burned down? Was it more common for soldiers to take goods and just burn down industry and farms?
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