#Wwii

Populism Updates

PopulismUpdates

In the aftermath of WWII, there were questions about what would become of Germany. SPD leader Kurt Schumacher favored a unified Germany with a "strong national presidency" which the occupying

Brian Beutler

brianbeutler

They just want Trump to steal American cultural pride in the greatest generation and hand it to communist Russia–preferably on TV–and he will probably do it.https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1259490692340088832 TIL a bunch of

Emma Kinema ⭐

EmmaKinema

Not enough people understand that the West didn't defeat the Nazis. The West *absorbed* the Nazis.https://twitter.com/Karen09944730/status/1298998026485334016 After WWII, in West Germany a huge portion of Nazi leaders, officials, and bu

Ritterton

Ritterton

Woke up w/ my mind doing a list of mental things & included in that was thoughts of BEFORE, DURING, AFTER.Then putting away a postcard of a #B23 & took

Liz Franczak

liz_franczak

do you know who liberated auschwitzhttps://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1259519911682080769 26M soviets died in WWII ffs

JDWrites (I am Bedrock)🌈🍖

actualadultJD

Rukmini Pande lied about my fic so egregiously that now all she can do is scream that I’m a racist from the corner she backed herself into by not reading

Adam Tooze

adam_tooze

Andreas Malm's new book on Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency War Communism in the Twenty-First Century is out tomorrow with @VersoBooks and Im kinda excited to engage with it. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3704-corona-climate-chroni

Brian Romanchuk

RomanchukBrian

⁦@StevenHailAus⁩ already discussed this.*Most* of the article is lightweight “debt is bad, boo” that falls under the Fiscal Folk Theorem. As such, added value is nil.However, there was one bit

Always Winter Never Baseball

DanielB08595110

This was written by my Dad, a #WWII who died a few years ago. #MemorialDay2020. Wendell Benson, USS Trutta American Legion Post 46 Marshalltown, IowaOn our second war patrol, we

Chosun Chillbo

hermit_hwarang

if you didn't know, some chinese americans used pins, signs, or other methods to distinguish themselves as not japanese during wwii. after the prc was founded many chiense americans found

Yoram Hazony

yhazony

I'm amazed how many people think "separation of church and state" is in the US Constitution, or that it was the theory behind the 1st Amendment, or that it was

James D Kightly

JDKightly

I've argued before that as fiction, Robinson's Piece of Cake is an excellent insight or intro to the reality of the RAF's early war combat, and Robinson's research grounds most

Ben Br@ddock

AutistLvsMatter

Some people deride the Poles for still having mounted cavalry units in WWII. The idea the these cavalry units charged tanks is a myth though. The cavalry charge was long

Russell Contreras

RussContreras

Actually, some can learn from me. My great grandfather Florencio Contreras (left) was a blacksmith who put on horseshoes in Houston, Texas, for Black, white, and Mexican American cowboys. Four

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HeathSzymczak

This morning a friend of mine sent me an email wishing me a Happy Easter, and attaching a link to the below article (as part of an ongoing debate). It

Lily - White Rose Genocide Prevention Foundation

freeeastturki

People here's a map. Study it carefully for a second. The KMT invaded and overthrew the East Turkistan government after WWII ended. It was summarily absorbed into the PRC after