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June 6, 2020

ϟϟ Foreign Fighters Part 1 – The Non-German Germanics Fighting for Hitler – WW2 Special

Filed under: Europe, Germany, History, Military, WW2 — Tags: Belgium, Fascism, Netherlands, Norway, Racism, TimeGhost, WarCrimes — Nicholas @ 06:00

World War Two
Published 5 Jun 2020

The SS are the elite force of the Third Reich, representing everything good about the German race. But half of them will one day be foreign-born non-Germans. How did this happen?

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Written by: Francis van Berkel
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Francis van Berkel
Edited by: Mikołaj Cackowski
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory)

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Bundesarchiv
Riksarkivet, image no. Fo30141711140064, Fo30141711140100_67, Fo30141711140102, Fo30141711140092
National Museum of Denmark
National Archives of Denmark
National Library of Norway
Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe
USHMM
from the Noun Project: Glasses by Yeong Rong Kim, Smile by The Icon Z, family tree by Kid Kitaro

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Johannes Bornlof – “The Inspector 4”
Philip Ayers – “Trapped in a Maze”
Reynard Seidel – “Deflection”
Johannes Bornlof – “Deviation In Time”
Fabien Tell – “Last Point of Safe Return”
Rannar Sillard – “March Of The Brave 10”
Gunnar Johnsen – “Not Safe Yet”

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From the comments:

World War Two
1 hour ago (edited)
If you came for the glory of the SS you will be disappointed by this video, there is nothing cool about the SS, truly nothing. They represent the most terrible part of humanity and perpetrated the worst crimes against humanity that you can imagine, things a short video like this cannot do justice on its own. To understand the depths of these horrors we recommend that you follow our War Against Humanity series, also hosted by Spartacus here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIk0qF0R1j4cwI-ZuDoBLxVEV3egWKoM

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Pope Fights 3 — The Italian Wars: History Summarized

Filed under: Europe, France, History, Military, Religion — Tags: Christianity, Florence, HolyRomanEmpire, OverlySarcasticProductions, Papacy, Rome, Spain, Venice — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published 5 Jun 2020

It’s time for a POPE FIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!! Gather ’round and listen to a tale of the utter nonsense that is the Renaissance Papacy. We’ll look at the Pontifical careers of Rodrigo Borgia, Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII.

SOURCES & Further Reading: Rome: A History In Seven Sackings by Kneale, A History of Venice by Norwich.

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Cognitive dissonance is real

Filed under: Cancon, Media, Politics — Tags: CognitiveDissonance, Psychology — Nicholas @ 03:00

Matt Gurney had a discussion with one of his readers that left him shaking his head in disbelief:

I had an interaction today with a reader that's indicative of a lot of things that are wrong with our society and why we can't have nice things. A short (promise) thread.

The reader had read something I'd written a few months ago that was mildly critical of a conservative. +

— Matt Gurney (@mattgurney) June 5, 2020

The reader haughtily asked if I’d ever make such a criticism for a Liberal.

I said yes.

The reader didn’t believe me, and said, oh yeah, show me an example?

As it so happened, I actually had a column of mine open in another tab; I was referring back to it for research. +
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The column in question contained a perfect example of me saying a very comparable thing about a Liberal as I had about the Conservative. So I had, OK, here you go. Pasted the link and replied.

And the reader replied right away. The reader was very confused.
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The reader had questions about how I could criticize both a Conservative and a Liberal. The reader asked about agendas — who had insisted I write one piece, and why had they then permitted me to write the other?

I wrote both on my own initiative, I explained. +
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And I made criticisms of both gentlemen, the Conservative and the Liberal, because they’d both done things that pissed me off.

The reader didn’t believe this was possible. There had to be another explanation, or an ulterior motive. +
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I eventually disengaged. But I’ve been thinking about that all day. There’s a grown-ass person in Canada, totally literate and presents very normally, who really struggled to understand that someone could be critical of both the left and right without being compromised.

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106mm M40 Recoilless Rifle, History and Firing

Filed under: History, Military, USA, Weapons — Tags: Artillery, ForgottenWeapons, Guns, KoreanWar, Vietnam — Nicholas @ 02:00

Forgotten Weapons
Published 29 Feb 2020

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The M40 was the final and largest iteration of the recoilless rifle in American military service. Designed to fix the shortcomings of the 105mm M27 that preceded it, the M40 was light and powerful, and added a .50 caliber spotting rifle to assist in being able to make first-round hits. The massive backblast of a recoilless rifle dictates that a crew generally only has one chance to make a hit before they must relocate to avoid retaliatory fire.

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QotD: The Fountainhead

Filed under: Architecture, Books, Humour, Quotations — Tags: AynRand, Sexuality, Teenagers — Nicholas @ 01:00

Like most of my contemporaries, I first read The Fountainhead when I was 18 years old. I loved it. I too missed the point. I thought it was a book about a strong-willed architect … and his love life … I deliberately skipped over all the passages about egoism and altruism. And I spent the next year hoping I would meet a gaunt, orange-haired architect who would rape me. Or failing that, an architect who would rape me. Or failing that, an architect. I am certain that The Fountainhead did a great deal more for architects than Architectural Forum ever dreamed.

Nora Ephron, The New York Times Book Review (1968), quoted in Reason Online

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