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What would the British Navy do with German Navy POWs once they had picked them up out of the water? We're there "prison cells" in the bottom of the ship? Or did they basically roam around the ship? Did the British take them straight back to port or finish their mission?	469
What was your PH.D. Thesis and how did you decide to do that subject in particular?	189
How did the German public react when they found out about the D day invasion? Did the German media notify the public or did they find out another way?	160
Any History teachers in this sub? Do you enjoy your job? Is it what you expected it to be?	111
Why weren't the Northern American Mafias able to expand to the South? Why were mafias mostly a Northern phenomena?	82
I've been listening to the "Revolutions" podcast and they have been talking about sugar production in Hati. From the sounds of it, sugar production was dangerous work. Does anybody know exactly how the sugar was produced and why it was so dangerous?	44
Why didn't the French extended the maginot line along the Belgium border? Why didn't they anticipate the German invasion through Belgium in WW2? Especially since Germany did it in WW1 with great effect.	26
At the end of the civil war were there slave owners who refused to release their slaves?	23
When historians refer to the "red scare" in American in the early 20th century, Are they referring to Communism or Anarchism? Were these two ideas interchangeable at the time, or are these just two leftest subversive movements which are sometimes lumped together ?	15
whats up with the dog in Paul Revere's famous engraving of the Boston massacre? why is he in the middle of all action?	10

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