Sticky WW2

[Stephen Graham]

Ook ziek dat die Hirohito x aantal jaar later gewoon welkom was in NL.

NL is eigenlijk ook verschrikkelijk he man man man. Ach ach ach

Wim Kan ageerde toentertijd daar nog tegen. Uit mijn hoofd heeft hij nog moeten werken bij de Birma spoorweg.

 

[Arminius]

Het interessantste is echter Konto 5. Allerlei hoge officieren die in de watten werden gelegd met geheime belastingvrije maandelijkse bedragen (bovenop hun reguliere loon) en soms zelfs landgoed.

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In this groundbreaking book, historian Gotz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive. By engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale-and by channeling the proceeds into generous social programs-Hitler literally 'bought' his people's consent. Drawing on secret files and financial records, Aly shows that while Jews and people of occupied lands suffered crippling taxation, mass looting, enslavement, and destruction, most Germans enjoyed a much-improved standard of living. Buoyed by the millions of packages soldiers sent from the front, Germans also benefited from the systematic plunder of conquered territory and the transfer of Jewish possessions into their homes and pockets. Any qualms were swept away by waves of governmenthandouts, tax breaks, and preferential legislation. Gripping and significant, Hitler's Beneficiaries makes a radically new contribution to our understanding of Nazi aggression, the Holocaust, and the complicity of a people.

 

[Stephen Graham]

 

[Arminius]

Bizar gewoon... Na meer dan 10 minuten, op Finland na, geen woord hierover:

Gaat het over WWII of Hitlers oorlog?

 

[Stephen Graham]

Moet allemaal voor het Amerikaans publiek ook te snappen zijn

 

[Arminius]

Het is jammer dat er nog steeds geen fatsoenlijke benaming is voor de zeer lange prelude. De invasie van Mantsjoerije door Japan zie ik als het begin van deze periode. (1931–1932)

Hitler had zijn oorlog(en) afgedwongen ongeacht wat men had gedaan. Nu waren ze er eigenlijk ook niet klaar voor. Alleen is het niet zo dat hij op een dag Polen aanviel en het startschot gaf voor alles.

 

[Stephen Graham]

Mag wel naar m luisteren.

Wist niet dan Buchanan ook WW2 boeken schrijft

Mag m wel

 

[Arminius]

Shiiiiit!

 

[Stephen Graham]

 

[Arminius]

Frappant hoe dat soort regimes historische figuren, teksten, en/of boeken, uit het verleden konden verbasteren zodat het binnen hun ideologie paste. Op een gegeven moment werd Frederik II van Pruisen zelfs min meer gerehabiliteerd in de DDR.

The statue was restored and returned to Unter den Linden

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Vrij extreem gezien Hitlers fascinatie met Alte Fritz. (+ militarisme, Pruisisch,...)

 

[Stephen Graham]

 

[Arminius]

Polen (2) (1938)

Zou dat zo'n dingetje zijn dat er nooit ter sprake komt? Namelijk de annexatie van Zaolzie.

 

[Arminius]

SS Sturmmann Fritz Christen, a gunner in the second Company of the SSKT tank-destroyer battalion, provided an even better example of how the individual Totenkopf soldier fought under extreme pressure. Christen's battery was located just north of Lushno on the morning of September 24, and took the full brunt of the first Soviet armored assault. During the initial engagement every SS soldier in the battery except Christen was killed. He stayed with his gun and kept firing feverishly until he had knocked out six Russian tanks and driven off the others. For the next two days Christen remained alone in the emplacement with his 50 mm cannon and repeatedly drove back Russian infantry and tank attacks while exposed to a constant hail of artillery, mortar, and machine gun fire. Cut off completely from the rest of his unit and the division, without food or water, Christen hung on grimly and refused to abandon his post - a lone breakwater around which the Russian tide surged and receded. During the hours of darkness he carried shells to his gun from the disabled batteries around him and blazed away at enemy tanks and infantry by dawn. When the Totenkopfdivision's counterattack finally drove the Russians out of Lushno on September 27, Christen's astonished SS comrades found him still crouched behind his anti-tank gun. The field in front of the gun emplacement he had held alone for nearly three days was littered with corpses and the blasted wreckage of Russian tanks. In seventy-two hours Fritz Christen by himself knocked out thirteen Soviet tanks and killed nearly 100 enemy soldiers. For this astonishing feat of individual heroism, Eicke awarded Christen the Iron Cross, First Class and recommended him simultaneously for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Christen was subsequently flown to Rastenburg and decorated personally by Hitler as the first enlisted man in the Totenkopfdivision to receive this prestigious, coveted medal.

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[Arminius]

Voor wie het iets interesseert:

Link

 

[Arminius]

Escape from a Nazi firing squad

 

[Vieze jij]

Escape from a Nazi firing squad

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Are we going to be shot?' asked Corporal Jean Dupontel, one of the prisoners.

'Of course you're going to be shot. What do you think this is, a picnic?' said one of the guards, with a snigger.

 

[Arminius]

Ja, wie kan nu nog beweren dat Duitsers geen humor hebben? 🤭

 

[Stephen Graham]

Polen (2) (1938)

Zou dat zo'n dingetje zijn dat er nooit ter sprake komt? Namelijk de annexatie van Zaolzie.

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Je moet zowat professor zijn om alles te bevatten wat er qua grensverandering wel niet is geweest tussen 1914 en pakweg 1948 in Midden- en Oost-Europa.

 

[Arminius]

 

[Arminius]

Foto in Wehrmacht uniform. 🤭