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Japan3/13/2011Benjamin Davidson
  Q: This year, I have joined the Model United Nations (MUN) where every school has to represent a ...
  A: I would say that as far as I am aware, Japan is on friendly basis with every country. Since the ...
Korean War12/12/2010Tom Barnes
  Q: i am doing a research paper about why the Korean war was a failure for the United States. I need ...
  A: Tiffany, There are two key reasons Korea cannot legitimately be labeled a failure for the US. ...
Anne Frank10/22/2010Tom Barnes
  Q: Please answer if you know! I have searched the internet hopelessly and we have not read the book yet ...
  A: The phone is ringing in the factory. Even though it was a Friday, the factory was closed, thus ...
World War II10/1/2010Tom Barnes
  Q: What were three Nazi practices during World War 2 that the Allies condemned as "atrocities"?
  A: Eddie, I am not sure what sort of detail you are looking for, so I will briefly outline the general ...
help9/18/2010Benjamin Davidson
  Q: i have been sat some homework to find out about the 1900s. can you help me i need to know what a ...
  A: The life of a 16 year old girl from a rich family would be a very good one. She would be well ...
RE :World War 2 Germany9/9/2010Benjamin Davidson
  Q: I had another quick question to help me write up a project on WW2 Germany. Where were Hitler Youth ...
  A: If you imagine what Scouting is like in this country, that is similar to what happened. Adolf Hitler ...
World War 2 Germany9/7/2010Benjamin Davidson
  Q: Just a quickIf German people during WW2 found anything suspicious like an unexploded bomb or ...
  A: No the Gestapo was more concerned with intelligence and security threats. The every day happenings ...
WWII - Hitler8/18/2010Benjamin Davidson
  Q: I have watched the film Downfall about Hitler's last days. On the cover of the DVD and in the film ...
  A: To the best of my knowledge this quote cannot be attributed to Adolf Hitler. Like all 'last quotes' ...
WWII American Propaganda8/11/2010Benjamin Davidson
  Q: I am having difficulty getting started on a history paper. The class is about America's home front ...
  A: Presumably you have received paperwork in class with images of posters, adverts, leaflets and so on. ...
German awareness of the mass murder11/17/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: I am doing an historical inquiry on the persecution of the Jews. To what extent did the German ...
  A: this is a very difficult question after the war the German people pretended they knew nothing ...
KPD in Germany11/2/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: I was wondering, in which conditions (if there was any) does the Bolshevik Party had any type of ...
  A: this question is not exactly in my expertise and it would require a very long answer you have some ...
Autocracy10/27/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: I've been trying to find some good places to learn about the effects of autocracy in places such as ...
  A: one precision : china is not really an autocracy but a communist plutocracy, of course we can ...
Nazi Death camps10/14/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: hey I'm a drama student and I am writing a monologue on a survivor of a death camp, I was hoping you ...
  A: why did you give me such a bad rating ? i must say that at least you could justify your ...
Korean in WWII10/5/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: Cahier, Hi, my name is Tom. As a senior History major, I take many different classes centered on ...
  A: I have never heard of Korean soldiers taking part in the battle of Normandy and your question came ...
The Jewish Body10/4/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: I am studying a Jewish Identities module in my English degree and the essay question I have been ...
  A: i am not sure i understand totally the question are you talking about the body's characteristics ...
WW2 Era Individual9/11/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: http://img197.imageshack.us/i/41990687.jpg/ http://img197.imageshack.us/i/29967155.jpg/ Could you ...
  A: Sorry Ihave no ideas about those two guys. Are they German ? They look terribly American. So I ...
nazism=hitlerizm?8/18/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: I was just wondering how one would go about answering the role of the fuhrer when the topic is ...
  A: i am not sure to understand totally the question do you want to assess the role of Hitler in the ...
Joseph Goebbels8/5/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: Sir, this may not be the question on WWII, but I would appreciate if you enlighten me something on ...
  A: effectively goebbels was a fanatic and a dangerous one, but i think his main motivations were to ...
siege of budapest 1944-j458/3/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: Wehmacht General Gerhard Scmidhuber was supreme commander of German army forces in Budapest during ...
  A: This question is beyond my competence and expertise Normally the SS did not have to take orders ...
Hitler in Vienna7/28/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: I have no question, I am not an expert, but... I see the mistakes in your article. I repeat : ...
  A: merci pour vos remarques, mais je n' ai jamais écrit que winifred était la fille de wagner, ...
WW2-General questions5/14/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: *I sent this Q to you a few days ago but did not recieve an answer reciept so I'm sending it again ...
  A: this is effectively a very difficult question and the answer is not simple but I will try to give ...
WW2-General questions5/13/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: *I sent this Q to you a few days ago but did not recieve an answer reciept so I'm sending it again ...
  A: sorry if i did not answer faster but i am currently in France and very busy. WW2 was initiated by ...
a political cartoon5/9/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: What exactly does this political cartoon mean? ...
  A: This cartoon refers to three pacts signed in the 30s between germany, italy and japan : 1)The ...
what does this cartoon mean?5/9/2009Michael FitzGerald
  Q: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/pm/10620cs.jpg
  A: I've never seen this cartoon before but it's obviously a reference to the anger Hitler felt by the ...
the duality of Hitler's role as both fuhrer and chancellor4/26/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: could you give me some place to start in answering the question "how did hitler's position as both ...
  A: yes hitler was the indisputable master of the Reich although there are opinions to the contrary. ...
Natzi Germany-Totalitarian state 19334/20/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: My name is Giselle and in my Modern History class we are currently researching why and how did the ...
  A: I am currently in France for health issues and I can not take time to answer your question I will ...
WWII4/6/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: How did Hitler manage to enlarge the size of the German army by the year 1938? How did the Munich ...
  A: It was not so unbeatable as it was eventually beaten. In 1938 it was not even stronger than the ...
Good fortune4/2/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: Considering the huge loss of life in Italy, the experience gained by the United States in North ...
  A: Yes Hitler was asleep because he never woke up before noon and nobody dared to wake him up in his ...
Italy Vs Normandy4/2/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: Considering the huge loss of life in Italy, the experience gained by the United States in North ...
  A: The campaign in Italy had several goals : 1- to keep U.S. troops active in the European theater ...
Did Africa cost Germany the war?4/1/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: Africa cost the Nazis much resources in Africa. Did they need control of Africa to control entry ...
  A: Of course but the Nazis did need to control North Africa to control the road to India, i.e. the ...
Poland 19393/30/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: Do you think Germany let Poland make it's play on Czechoslovakia because the allies would be slow to ...
  A: I have no particular idea about it, Matt, but I guess that Hitler changed his mind as he moved ...
Poland 19383/29/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: Shortly after the Munich agreement Poland demanded Czechoslovakia cede its Tesin district to Poland? ...
  A: YES IT IS totally true. Well, my dear Matt, Germans learnt that Poles were not better than the rest ...
Polish police3/27/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: Did the Polish police round up Jews for the Nazis to take to the death camps? Is is true that close ...
  A: yes the police of every country occupied by the Nazis rounded up Jews for the Nazis to the ...
Great Depression Effects3/27/2009Tom
  Q: I am doing a research paper in english about my family's heritage, and the area that I am focusing ...
  A: That IS a hard question/topic. I am not of a lot of help, sadly. I know my daughter read a ...
France/Germany3/24/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: How great a feat was it for the German Army to attack France through the Ardennes? What would it be ...
  A: it was a bold initiative that was dismissed by the French as impossible to achieve successfully. The ...
time life ww2 books3/23/2009Tom
  Q: i have a compleat set of time life ww 2 books published in 1977 from the begining to the end rushian ...
  A: The killer about books, esp. broadly published ones like that series, is that they are commodities - ...
WWII3/21/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: I think England played the Soviet Union against Germany from the beginning. That's why England never ...
  A: Yes it was a major mistake but as I told you Ike did not trust Patton and as you said he saw him as ...
WWII3/20/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: I think England played the Soviet Union against Germany from the beginning. That's why England never ...
  A: Money has no odor but money does not smell either. In history money has always played a dubious role ...
WWII3/20/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: I think England played the Soviet Union against Germany from the beginning. That's why England never ...
  A: Once more we have some conjecture rather than an answer based on facts and history. Having said that ...
George Patton3/20/2009Michel Cahier
  Q: Did George Patton view Stalin as being more dangerous than Hitler? Or, did he view them as being ...
  A: No Russia is not the short way to say Soviet Union. Russia is the way to say Russia as England is ...

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