History

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Welcome to #1071118095256657930! This is an exclusive place to discuss niche topics like anything related to history, associated cultures and art. Please move general discussion to #general or #general-2 . DEBATES are strictly prohibited and will be pointed for misuse.

@keen plume Done

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my new home

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Brothers and sisters

This is going to be my comfy place now

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Bought this patriotic German book from 1900

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Gentlemen

Today is a good day

A special thanks to Felix, as well as the rest of the mod team

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800 sides and Over 100 years old for 10€

On a fleemarket

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BRU

ONLY 10 EURO

Aww man

I'd get a book like that about the kingdom of Westphalia in a moment

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nyet

save your money for some original kit

so we can be based together 😎

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I CAN'T

The Yugo drip is too powerful

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Rommel is truly overrated

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Yes

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fav german war song?

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1.Morgen marschieren wir
2. Die Jägerbraut
3. Wildgänse rauschen durch die Nacht

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My first place is

Really hard

It's between wenn die soldaten

And

Hold on lemme find the other one

Scwarzbraun ist die haselnuss

It sound like a mix of a march and Bavarian music

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Wenn die Soldaten is good

Theres even a leftist version of it

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I only know it because it has the melody of out old anthem

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@formal hill

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tis a bop

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That's what I said

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W

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Original rg34 weapon cleaning kit dated 1935 arrived

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Nice

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W

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https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYMbwpYr/
German soldiers of the modern German army the Bundeswehr are singing the famous Volksong and soldiersong "Westerwaldlied"

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Happy Bismarck day to all

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@gusty folio

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true

real chad is right here

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@gusty folio @sick jolt

Gentlemen, I am sad to inform you that I've lost a bidding sale on eBay for a Cobi königstiger

Another great set gone down the drain

There goes my tank plan

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🥲

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Rearranging my collection
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A fine collection indeed

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thats it

that's the thing that my great grandpa would've left my dad

the bayonet-like ceremonial sword

great condition of the cross fr

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That's an repro but the rest is original except the Passport

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ah

yea the passport looks too good to be true

are those dog tags?

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Yes my Reenactment one

And my Reenactment passport

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dripped out in that photo

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Wait

I have it

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it?

the power?

absolute drip

what' the rank on the shoulders?

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M36 tunic

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it ain't the hugo boss SS, but its still good

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Its our unit shoulderboards

Panzerjäger Abteilung 228

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panzerjager?

hold up

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Tankhunter

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ah

a "panzerfraust main" unit

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Only end war

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or do you mean anti-tank arty?

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More the pak40/36 main unit

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right

how do you transport the pak?

A bliz or two?

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Yes

And more

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more?

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We have like four Pak 36 and like multiple Blitz

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im intrugued

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how did you get those?

the pak that is

the Blitz is something i'd imagine isnt that hard to find

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imagine a pak + stug 3 ausf like G combo

forest camo and thats ready to go out to france

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You guys

Do you have a YouTube

Instagram?

Somewhere where we can watch your reenactments

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Facebook

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Maybe updates on the arsenal

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Can you give me the name

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That one guy in pic 1 with the different camo:

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Not from our unit

352nd volksgrenadier Division

We don't use camo

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Understood

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3./ Panzerjäger Abteilung 228

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Cheers to that

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🍻

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@formal hill

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Me and the boys

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they are indeed the boys

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Here are my Great Grandads medals if anyone is interested

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Dope

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Thanks

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We got a WW1 victory medal, a 1914-15 campaign medal, and a war medal, all British medals

All three medals were never awarded on their own, always together

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Ah thats interestinh

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So I take it

1. you're British
2. your great grandfather survived the entire war

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Wrong on the first part

Irish

And he went on to join the IRA

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Oh that's neat

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Yeah

Hbu?

Anything interesting?

If you dont mind me askinh

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My grandfather was a Specialist in the US Army in the 1960s

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Oh cool

What'd they do?

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Specialist is a rank, and I think he was a mechanic(?)

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Oh, so he'd like work on trucks and stuff?

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Not entirely sure, just remembering what I was told years ago

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Ah

You have any other Military family?

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I have a cousin who was wounded in Afghanistan

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They alright?

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Last I heard, yes

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Good to hear man

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My next door neighbor for the last 18 years served in the US Air Force

He was a good family friend, and me and my siblings often called him our uncle

However he passed away last month

I remember being told that he once got a letter from Ronald Reagan when he was president, and because of it he named his dog Regan

He also supported my love for history and would sometimes give me books from his personal collection

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Sorry for your loss

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Thank you, it's ok

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German flee market today

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Thats a cool bike

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I don't think I've ever seen a pool table with orange/red felt before

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Julian in down fall

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Found old helmet from the IDF

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M16 steelhelmet

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Oh nice

Didnt know the model

Thought it was. Stahlhelm

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German air raid bunker in my city. Before it was build there stood the Jewish Synagoge but it was burned down in 38

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You can See the Model Becaus of the Horns and how big It is compared to the ww2 ones. Also you can See its an m16 and Not an m17 becaude the Helmet strap was combined with the helmet and not the Liner inside the helmet

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You really know your stuff

Ah

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Well yes

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Also thats really interesting too

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Im glad i can teach people about that stuff

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It looks kind of eerie

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History is a fun subject imo

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Well over 100. Years old

The german army supported the ira thats the reason they had german helmets

[vagrant lotus]

Oh they supported the IRB in forms of arms

I am not aware of helmets though

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@vagrant lotus has leveled up! (12 ➜ 13)

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As this one was used by the Defence Forces in the 1940s

Which is when he served again

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Well funny is

When germany started the Battle of poland many soldiers had to wear old ww1 steelhelmets which were reissued because the factorys didnt made enough m35 helmets

[vagrant lotus]

Oh so they needed to rusb production

I thought that was only for tanks

And motorised too

Saw it on a BBC documentary

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Well the war was planned tk start in 1942 but hitler was in a rush so the army was a bit underequiped at the beginning

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Never knew thag

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Also used some old as weapons sometimes

But that was mostly in poland

In france they were equipped good again

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Because the phony war?

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Here a comparison. A spanish comrade wearinb an original m16 helmet at the 1940 event and me with the m35

You see the difference

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Yeah

Its not as

Forward?

Idk the word

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The old model was way chunkier

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Yeah

Thats the word i was looking for

Here is a photo of the Irish Free states National Army general Richard Mulcahy (right)

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I ranked every Roman Emperor on Youtube? Guess who was last

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And it is super obvious

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Caeser?

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no.he was dictator nor emperor

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Nero?

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Nero wasn't that bad. Ok, it is...

Honorius

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He murdered Christians

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I didn't put him very high either. Also, so did Decius, Valerian, and Diocletian. And if Nero was as bad as Honorius, he wouldn't even be bottom. Nero reigned for 14 years. Honorius ruled for 30.

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Me on the left

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Got got by the Bren boy

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Another memorial I found in my city

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there is a WW1/2 krupp naval cannon not long from me I can probably take a pic tomorrow

about like 3km away

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https://tenor.com/view/palpatine-dewit-gif-11426456

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Anyone a fan of the old west in America

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Yes

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Hart wie kruppstahl

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k

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My uncle in the bundeswehr in the 80s

Panzergrenadier

My greatgranduncle in the RAD(Reicharbeitsdienst)
Reich Labor Service
The step between the HJ and becoming a soldier

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it looks like a 21 cm st chamond

or a 21cm K/39

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Dope

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New thing

Some pics of the box

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A flag within a flag within a flag within a flag

Also vexillology is technically speaking a breach of history

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yall know whats annoying?

seeing a ww2 aircraft related tiktok and seeing the comments be dumb

the Me 262 was a waste of metal, its extremely overrated.

and the Ju 87 was also trash in comparison to other dive bomber aircraft of the time

like the D4Y or SBD

both of which have higher bombload and higher top speed

and are also carrier based too

only reason the ju87 is popular is because it could easily destroy underequipped small militaries of tiny nations

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And because of the iconic siren

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More reenactment gear Came
Nothing political

Original backpack

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now that i think about it

if the anglo japanese alliance didnt break down ww2s pacific front wouldnt happen but WW1 may have happened in 1904 if france joined russia against japan

we could have prevented millions of deaths if britain didnt fuck over japan in the washington naval treaty

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@sick jolt

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Oof

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It shoots 40mm airsoft shells or taginns

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Japan would still try and kill the Chinese though

and then the USA Would oil embargo among other things

and then pearl harbour

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that was in 1937

japan shouldve scrapped the 8-8 plan tho(8 battleships, 8 battlecruisers)'

wouldve saved their economy and democracy

they were a democracy from 1905 to 1932

and became a dictatorship under tojo with hirohito as a figurehead in 1933

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GreatGrandpa in ww1 1915

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Italian partisan from World War 2

colorized

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ah yes the slow but deadly

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Some of my great grandfather's memoirs

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The first book was printed in 1693, the second was printed some time in the early 1700s

Stored at the Seminary Library in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the oldest public library in the country

Over 7000 books from the 15th and 16 centuries, mostly written in Latin and German.

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Edited some pictures of me and my Friend

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Oi

Booger hook off the bang switch

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Bella Ciao is a pop song according to YouTube

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Is it strange that I like history research assigments for school?

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Nope, especially if it's a topic you're interested in

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at the battle of stamford bridge in 1066 one viking is said to have killed 40 anglo-saxons giving his army time to prepare a shield wall

they promptly got demolished and it marks the end of the viking age

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I know it's a hot take but the quote

"we will not capitulate - no, never! we may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames."

Wir kapitulieren nicht, niemals. Wir können untergehen, aber wir werden eine Welt mitnehmen. Eine Welt in Flammen"

From
Adolf Hitler

I think apart from it bringt hitler who said that and what he did before thats one of the Best war Quotes Ive ever heard. After that the Enthusiasm must have been like 110% as sad as it sounds

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Eh

"Nuts!" is better

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Also legendary

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the stuka is slower

the d4y was 220kmh faster

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same bombload

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Everyone what’s your top 5 WW2 aircraft

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1. P-51D Mustang
2. F4U Corsair
3. B-17 Flying Fortress
4. Supermarine Spitfire
5. P-47 Thunderbolt

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1. P-38 Lightning
2. P-51 Mustang
3. B-17 Flying Fortress
4. B-25 Mitchell
5. Supermarine Spitfire

Honorable mentions: SBD Dauntless and P-61 Black Widow

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im not too good with planes but
1.HS 126 B1
2.avro lancaster
3.spitfire
4.p47
5.hs 129

but what about armoured vehicles (excluding tanks) of ww2

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idk much about those

or tanks from ww2 honestly

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ok ig everyone has their special part they specifically learned about

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yeah

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Spitfire

B-29

Yak-3

A6M Zero

Ba 349 natter

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Omg my history teacher loved this

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Greatgreatgranduncle

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Do you happen to be Argentine

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German but my greatgreatgranduncle was dutch

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My great grandparents also served not ss tho (iirc)

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Otter parts pf my family Served in the wehrmachr

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there is a chance that, had george h w bush not been lucky, he would've been killed and eaten by the imperial japanese army

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JFK’s torpedo boat was sunk in world war 2

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Jacobitism is a much better lost cause than the Confederacy

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The Great Depression gotta be my biggest opp

Almost singlehandedly caused BOTH theaters of WW2

caused the European theater because with the great depression, the Americans couldn't loan money to Germany, which hyperinflated the economy, which in turn let political instability give rise to the no no germans

Caused the Pacific theater because with the great depression in japan, political instability came and gave rise to the militarists which over a few years eroded the democratic government and became a fascist dicatorship

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i blame calvin coolidge

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Context?

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Forgot bought a new picture. Upper right

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Do you not know that person?

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a lot of his family served in the Wehrmacht and beyond during ww2 so I'd say it's safe to assume that it's a family member

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Nope

Just a random wehrmacht soldier portrait

I know the other persons ob the picture tho

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Moulton_O'Brien

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Roy_Bates

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My dad just walked into my room and handed me this

According to him it’s 10 million German marks from 1923

inflation was crazy

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It definitely says "Zehn Millionen Mark" which means "Ten million Mark" so yeah it definitely is ten million

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So crazy in fact that banknotes were littered across the streets and people would use them as kindling for fires and children would play with them. They were so worthless that they could be easily expended with little repercussion or consequence.

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it’s probably worth more now than it was when it was actually accepted as a currency

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The last survivor of the U-96 and probably the last recipient of the German Cross in Gold

Captain Ltn. Friedrich Grade died at the age of 107

Friedrich Grade 29.03 1916-13.10. 2023

German Newspaper : The last man of U96 disembarked

Last Vet(Friend of me) who served on the famous U96 (Das Boot) as Chief engineer Died last Friday at 107
Rest in Peace Friedrich

@gusty folio @inner jetty

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https://youtu.be/WiVyd7ORKPU
The time Boris Yeltsin was so hammered on a visit to Ireland he couldn't get off the plane.

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Did the deserters and POWs fought alongside the US?

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yes

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Interesting

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like castle whatever it was

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Ah ik about that one

Im proud of those POWs

First time germany fought alongside the US in modern history

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castle itter

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Kid named the Boxer Insurrection:

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On November 29th, 1943, in the Second Session of the Antifascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), the state of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was established. The provisional state had the National Committee for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (NKOJ) serving as its executive body while Josip Broz Tito primarily governed it. On November 1st, 1944, an agreement between Tito an Subasic was reached in the Partisan-controlled Beograd in which Tito was to be the prime minister while Petar II was to be the titular ruler. However, such was not established until March 7th, 1945 due to a regency dispute. Throughout 1945, communists worked on to abolish the monarchy and having won the parliamentary election with all 354 seats in the federal assembly, the de jure monarchy was officially abolished on November 29th, 1945, exactly two years after the establishment of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia.

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Kurt Salterberg the Last Witness auf the Assasination attempt on Adolf Hitler on the 21st of June 1944 died on the 21. of November 2023 with 100 Years old. Met him in RL,signed his book for me and some pictures. Great man

Reenacment Battle of France 1940.
Picture from last Oktober

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Damn bro

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109 years ago, the Great War was five months underway, and across the Western Front, soldiers on both sides laid down their weapons and called for temporary ceasefires, which would later be known as the Christmas Truce of 1914. Soldiers climbed out of their trenches and joined their foes in the celebration of Christmas. Gifts like cigarettes, food, and wine were given, soldiers told their new friends of their families and exchanged stories and laughter, sang Christmas carols, and the Brits and Germans even had a soccer match (it is said that the Germans won, and on November 11th, 2008, men from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers played a match against the German Battalion 371 on the very site their regimental ancestors played during the Christmas Truce. The Germans won 2-1.)

Unfortunately, this ceasefire was temporary, and soldiers would return to their trenches and the war would continue the next day and wouldn't end until almost four years later, and hundreds of thousands more would die. Lest we forget!

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Why didn't they do this in WW2?! This was something wholesome and it really painted the picture of humanity between the two young soldiers who had a great time and yet they knew that they had to go back to kill one another because the old men have said so. So sad and yet so wholesome.

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Dunno. 🤷‍♂️

Then again, why didn't they do this for every conflict?

I remember hearing talk about a potential ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine but I don't think it ever happened

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Well a small ceasefire between 6 soldiers happend in 1944 in the Ardennes

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Ukraine refused

I think they assumed Russia would take advantage of it

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Memorial for the fallen of the
4th Bergisches field artillery Regiment no. 59
In my City in Solingen

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hey history community

hey
i'm planing to write a book about classic music
could u plz suggess some topics that i must talk aout
and would u plz develep for me some ideas that i can start from in this project

help me by ur knowledge about this topic and no only classic music

about the revelutionary one

and the oriental one

nd the chineese and tha asian

any information that i can talk about in my project

and never forget that evry detail can help and evry info matter

cuz i wanna make a perfect version with ur knowledge