Just curious to what the logic was behind that, or why it ended up like that, any input would be appreciated.
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Example Newspaper front page distributed in 1945
Translation courtesy of /u/_wolfenswan :
"These atrocities: you are to blame!
Millions of Europeans were tortured, abducted and murdered by the Nazi-criminals in twelve years. Men, women and children were chased (hetzen is a difficult verb to translate, it's a specific act of chasing or hunt and usually refers to the hunting dogs chasing the prey) and tortured to Death by Hitler's brutish butchers (Henkersknechte are literally the hangmen's assistants but I figured butcher is used in a similar connotation in English), only because they were Jews, Czechs, Russians, Poles or French. You watched calmly and condoned it quietly.
Allied soldiers, hardened by battle, could not hide their disgust and outrage on facing the gased, charred and haggard corpses of the KZ's victims. According to German reports (Lagerbericht = reports found in German camps) 50 000 people were burned, shot and hanged in Buchenwald. In Dachau alone American soldiers found 50 freight wagons filled with decaying corpses (could also be rotting or putrefying). Since beginning of this year 10 000 people have succumbed to their torture at that place.
In Belsen British Soldiers found torture chambers, crematories (no idea why they didn't use Krematorium there) , gallows and flogging-poles (is there a better word for it?) . There, 30 000 people died.
In Gardelegen, Nordhausen, Ohrdruf, Erla, Mauthausen, Vaihingen uncountable numbers of forcefully displaced people (not happy with that translation, very literal) and political prisoners died to an Inferno (not sure if they are intentionally using the original meaning of "holocaust" here, before the latter became widespread) which the world had never seen before (literally: the world's history)!
You watched idly. Why didn't you use words of protests and screams of outrages to shake the German conscience awake? This is your great guilt - You are jointly responsible for these great atrocities!
In Dachau Freight wagons filled with corpes were discovered by american troops.
Stacked like firewood [these] corpses were found in Dachau by American troops. Blood was flowing along the floor when the soldiers arrived.
This inmate of the infamous Dachau camp [Schandlager is a component word and tricky to translate: Schande can mean disgrace, shame(ful) or infamous] was found hollow-eyed and emaciated by hunger by american soldiers.
A part of the 1000 corpses found in a pit by British and American soldiers after liberating a camp.
American soldiers inspect an atrocious camp [again a compound word: Gräuel is very strong and implies also madness and horror], where the burnt corpses of the Nazi-victims are stacked
Charred corpse of the political prisoners, who were chased [again hetzen, see above] to death by SS-troops in Dachau.
A Dachau inmate watches the corpses of his comrades, who became the victims of brutish SS-troops. The Nazis poured them in gasoline and burnt them."
The original post which triggered this question can be found here at /r/PropagandaPosters
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Also, why?
Was it economically unreasonable or was it a military thing?
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I just finished watching The Killing Fields in a class about the Vietnam war. I was wondering what happened to those children who were indoctrinated into Pol Pot's year zero thinking and participated in killings, spying on their own family, etc. Were they ever integrated back into normal society? How did they cope with the complete severance from their families at such a young age?
I hope this isn't treading too closely to modern events, but since the majority of the genocide happened in the 70s and Vietnam held control of the country by the 80s, I thought it was safe to ask.
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Marx was born to a Jewish family in the German Rhineland in 1818, but his father eventually converted to Christianity. Would it have been part of his education, as child or a young man, to read the the Bible? Specifically, the Prophets? In what language would he have read them?
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Were there any groups of people who got specifically targeted and killed?
Also, were any of these genocides successful (as in no descendants from that group of people survived or are around today.)?
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I was watching a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rexKqvgPVuA) and it discussed the history of English. Of course the Romans held control of the land now called Great Britain for the first few centuries CE, but left once the western half of the empire declined. They left parts of Latin behind and new settlers brought with them words that have made their way into the english language.
At what point did the language we now call english become english? Was it after the Anglo-Saxan migration or was it much later?
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I'm doing a paper that includes a part regarding young earth creationists. I've gone over Ussher already, and want to figure out why so many people in the US subscribe to the idea. Have they always or is it a more recent development?
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In a speech to the eighth meeting of the central peoples government counsel on June 28, 1950, Mao said "The Chinese people had long ago declared that the affairs of the various countries throughout the world should be run by the peoples of the respective countries themselves, and the affairs of these should be run by the people of Asia themselves and not by the United States. United States' aggression In Asia will only arouse the extensive and resolute resistance of the peoples of Asia."
Mao and other Communist Party members talked much of making world peace. They also talked much of Taiwan, and taking it away from the grasp of the United States. How could Mao and other Chinese officials justify the taking of Taiwan, when the people of Taiwan wanted to self govern themselves, and that such aggression would certainly cause war?
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I am curious if there is any inherent quality of monotheistic faiths that have lead to their dominance in the modern era over older belieg systems like Greek, Celtic and Teutonic paganism of old. Did it provide something that these other faiths simply could not supply, or does it come down to the aggressiveness of proselytization?
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First, I know Reagan is to this day, still a political lightning rod, but I want to take the risk of asking, anyway.
My mother's husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer's last year, from my own experience in hindsight, there were indication of memory issues, confusion, etc., from much earlier on that were simply neglected for years until the degenerative effects become problematic and eventually unmanageable. In fact, his diagnosis explained much of the things that struck me as "off" about him when I met him in the first place, more than ten years before his official diagnosis.
From my tangential reading of political and popular commentary of the 1980's, Reagan was lampooned by satirists and critics for seeming slow-witted and absent-minded, or appearing to have almost a childlike innocence. This caricature of Reagan played by Phil Hartman in an SNL skit about the Iran-Contra scandal is one such example.. In the skip, the slow, unwitting, nice-old-man public Reagan is portrayed as an act juxtaposed with a secretly vigorous and dynamic mastermind behind closed doors. Forgive me if I am miss-characterizing his perception, but is there any basis for the speculation that Reagan was already suffering from the mental deterioration of his disease while in the White House, much earlier than his diagnosis? If so, is there any reason to believe that this impacted the decisions and outcomes of his administration?
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I am reading The Uncensored War by Daniel Hallin for a research essay. He points out that in the early 60s, reporters stuck to "just the facts," focusing on current events coming from the Johnson Administration rather than analyzing, criticizing, or speculating. In the late 60s however, networks and newspapers became openly critical. Hallin says it wasn't until the late 60s that the modern op-ed page came about, and it was directly the result of the Vietnam-Watergate era. So, what changed?
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For millennia, societies have been isolated by geography and inter-language influences have been restricted by the availability of trade routes. Now that television and internet are ubiquitous, people all over the world are exposed to languages and cultures from all over the world. Has this altered languages in any way? Have we observed an accelerated rate of change in languages since media has spread?
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Could someone please explain what all the titles mean? I know the basic european ones, Baron, Count, Duke, King, Emperor. But is the russian tzar the same as emperor(in swedish emperor and tzar kind of has the same name, they both originate from Caesar) and in that case did old russia have multiple kings under the tzar?
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I've been reading a lot of the history of the enlightenment lately and find myself becoming detached, unfamiliar, even uncomfortable with, my own society in Southern California. I recognize this could easily be a singular incident, but I am curious if any historians experience similar attitudes or changes in perception of your own society based on studying history. Apologies if this has been asked before.
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A friend was giving me vague details of a battle taking place on an island in which both countries thought that the island was lost so stopped reinforcing it. The soldiers who had been left on the island cut off from communication apparently continued fighting long after the war was over unaware that they didn't need to fight anymore.
Did this event actually happen?
Are there any other notable stories of battles continuing for an extended period after the end of a war because of a lack of communication?
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