AskHistorians

I highly doubt someone woke up and completely came up with Superman and the history and such.

I've never really thought about it before, but just wondering if there were additional incentives besides exploiting antisemitism to gain power and control.

I know there was forced labor at the camps, but was there also anything similar to a private prison incentive like we see in the U.S.? Government contracts are provided, and the more people you hold in your prison (or at least process as entering the prison) the bigger the government contract, and higher the profits.

What about transportation companies that owned the trains that transported people to the camps? Was everything already purchased (or confiscated) and owned by the government when they used it to imprison people, or did they contract out to private businesses?

If everything was property of the government rather than privately held, who decided where money would be allocated, and how were the decisions made?

What are some well known food and drinks that where in use by cultures around the world until someone "discovered" it and changed it

For example a culture uses a food or drink or even an ingredient in a specific way for a long time and then someone comes along and "discovers" it but changes it to make it more palatable to them

I've heard a few theories. One being they didn't need to invent war ships and gun powder due to their unique situation with their neighbors. Another was that when they came to south America thousands of years ago then they were separated from where civilization first started and we're essentially starting over technologically. Along side the starting over idea, their food was of poor quality like the the evolution of maize into the corn we have today.

I'm wondering if there have been any notable cases historically where a criminal blackmailed a innocent person to confess to that criminals crime.

I guess they where with an alliance with him, while Napoleon invaded in Egypt? But later where beaten by Napoleon in egypt in a battle. I do not know much how they reacted to his quick rise through europe, and his downfall at Waterloo, where they where only viewers bystanders to these great Napoleonic wars in central europe I guess.

Socialism is leftism, Nazism is not, so why were they called, and some people still call them, the National Socialists?

I'm wondering how they figured out how to prevent buildings from collapsing before structural engineering became widespread and default in the building process