#Wwii

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European peoples - but most specifically Germans, Poles and Russians - earnestly debating "Who was the bad guy in WWII?" in a pathetic, victim complex pissing contest are Spiritual Americans

Andrew Weatherall

AndyDW_

Good folks, a query: has anyone seen stuff on whether or not communication to the public to get onboard with a *big thing* was more successful ‘back in the day’

Mark Wallace

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Geeky thread warning. Or, if you’re like me, a cool bit of 20th Century urban archaeology. Check out this shop in Kingston. What’s unusual about it (aside from its no-doubt-excellent

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

@drdanisanchez Tweeting for @twitterstorian again today. Based on my last few threads, you can probably guess that I am not a bullets/battlefields WWII historian. I gave a lecture at Temple's

Sofiya Pasternack | Black Lives Matter

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Is this... is this a rant? I think this might be a rant. Okay, here we go. I am ranting. This is a rant about writing marginalizations that aren't yours

Tesia♡

mochiteez

PSA TO ALL MY OOMFS AND FRIENDS OUTSIDE OF HAWAII!!! The US Navy is proposing to detonate WW2 era bombs that they discovered buried in the sand last year on

USAS - Travel and History

USAS_WW1

Japanese Americans formed the US Army's Nisei 442d Regimental Combat Team (RCT). It fought extraordinarily hard in #Italy, Southern #France, etc. It is one of the most decorated units ever

RAF Lossiemouth

RAFLossiemouth

On Eid al-Fitr, it's a fitting time to remember the many Muslims who fought for the Allies during WWII. Noor Inayat Khan GC served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force

libertylineman

libertylineman

Today I'm think a lot about the closest man I had to a grandfather growing up. He was my neighbor from the time I was 7 until his death 2

Zachary D. Carter

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Real GDP increased by 10.8%, 8.9% & 12.9% in FDR's first three years in office. In the decades since, that performance has only been equaled once: During WWII, which some

TBD – Books & Arts

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One thing that's remarkable about the #QueensSpeech, to American ears, is that, while she gracefully alludes to WWII, and even mentions her own 1940 children's broadcast, she does not use

mitchell 🧹🔥

broomstickhell

i think it’s hard to overstate how badly a childhood diet of westerns and wwii movies fucked the boomers up not to get all ‘what myths SHOULD we allow in

Ned Forney

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We couldn’t have done it without them! On #NationalMaritimeDay, we pay tribute to the unsung heroes of America's wars: the courageous, hard-working men of the US Merchant Marine (PC: https://bit.ly/3cW41zV ).

Jamil Zaki

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I'm lecturing this week about COVID fake news and how to detect it, and ran into the fascinating story of the Boston Herald Rumor Clinic.https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wwii-rumor-clinics(1/n) During WWII, fake news of

Worah

psychedelhic

Thunderstorms this week caused minor damage to the Taj Mahal - a portion of the marble railing on the raised platform fell on to the sandstone floor below it. Sad,

Lukas Grzybowski

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Digressing thoughts:How was school life during WWII? People have been comparing the current Covid-19 pandemic with a war/war-like situation, pointing also to war effort measures to overcome the crisis. There