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it actually annoys the shit out if me when people act like ww2 isn't something that you need to learn about anymore. like no actually that's all still very important sorry
I totally agree with that, but personally I love stories told in second person. Idk much about the author so maybe this isn’t as correct to say, but portraying such a serious issue through the eyes of 2 children is so touching because as a reader you understand exactly what is going on, unlike the kids themselves. The Jewish kid is confused and exhausted and has now found a friend, and the German kid does not understand why the kid is not doing well. I also wrote a short story in a similar perspective to this about the Holocaust, about 2 Jewish kids not understanding why their family cannot come back from their „family trip“ during the holidays.
It’s seeing an issue perceived second handedly that I like about this book, not because the protagonist is German. It’s witnessing indirectly what many people probably didn’t even pay attention to, but as a Jewish reader knowing damn well what is going on behind the scenes. This writing style is just touching to me; nimona did it too.
Keep in mind I have not done research on the author so this is just From my perspective, I really hope the author didn’t mean it differently than me. I’ll add any info I find in the comments
Whenever someone praises "boy in the striped pajamas" i get so angry that I combust. I HATE YOUR STUPID FUCKING WHITE SAVIOR, HISTORICALLY INNACURATE, HOLOCAUST FANFICTION. "Oh it was so sad when the German boy went into the gas chamber" was it not sad when the millions of jews went into the gas chambers??? You only felt that way for the German boy???
*turns you into a fish who has neither fins nor scales and is therefore not kosher and thus will never get the mitzvah of being blessed before eating*
History memes #52
History memes #53
London Lookout
A British soldier on the lookout in London during the Blitz (WW2).
Walter Schellenberg timeline
This is Walter Schellenberg, the deputy commander of the Gestapo, timeline:
1910: He was born
1914: The First World War began
1929: He attended university at the University of Bonn
1933: Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany
1933: He joined the SS
1939: He became one of the directors of Heydrich's foundation, the Stiftung Nordhav.
1939: The Second World War began
1939-1942: He was Heinrich Himmler's personal aide
1939: He played a major part in the Venlo Incident, which led to the capture of two British agents
1939: Hitler awarded him the Iron Cross for his actions.
1940: He was responsible for drawing up a list of 2,300 British personalities who were to be arrested as soon as Germany occupied Great Britain
1940: He was sent to Portugal to intercept the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and try to persuade them to work for Germany.
1941: He became SS-Obersturmbannführer
1942: He was appointed chief of SD-Ausland by Heydrich.
1943: He became SS-Oberführer
1944: He became SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei
1945: Adolf Hitler committed suicide
1945: He was captured in Denmark while working on an attempt to make a separate peace with the Americans.
1945: The Second World War ended
1949: The court sentenced him to six years in prison
1951: He was released
1951: He moved to Switzerland before settling in Verbania Pallanza, Italy.
1952: He died
Sources:
Wikipedia: Walter Schellenberg
Military Wiki: Walter Schellenberg
I DON'T SUPPORT NAZISM,FASCISM OR ZIONISM IN ANY WAY, THIS IS AN EDUCATIONAL POST
The most important thing is not that the truth dies in war, but the battle for the sovereignty of interpretation of words.
To put it bluntly, what happened on 7 October cannot be legitimised by the Palestinian people's struggle for freedom, which had its final outcome in this event, as some would have the world believe.
Terrorism differs from resistance movements, guerrillas or national liberation movements less in its choice of weapons than in its choice of objectives: A national liberation or resistance movement is usually militarily expansive, whereas terrorism attempts to attract as much attention as possible with its acts of violence in order to undermine closed power structures and to exemplify the vulnerability of such structures and make them publicly accessible to the population.
Women, children and peaceful people who are unsuspectingly and bestially murdered, raped or cruelly abducted are only the targets of butchers and never the target of a freedom fight, no matter where in the world it takes place.
What took place on 7 October was a massacre of civilians like the Nazis started in the Second World War and cannot be weighed against the injustice that preceded the massacre.
But the strike against hamas, which was initially justified on the basis of reasons of state, has become a punishment of the entire Palestinian people and can no longer be legitimised.
Israel's legitimate self-defence has turned into a campaign of annihilation.
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Driving people from one side to the other in order to get a free field of fire and then in a kind of continuous loop where ultimately there are only temporary protected spaces for civilians contradicts every rule of civil defence. And can be regarded without reservation as an act against humanity.
However, the comparison with the genocide caused by the systematic extermination of the Jewish people by the Nazis is not accurate. That would simply be wrong, even if the injustice being done to the Palestinian people is inhumane.
Yes, it is a crime, but it is not genocide. The systematic extermination of people is not the case here, no matter how much you want to make the comparison, it does not reflect the past.
On behalf of all those murdered, I stand here only as the face of a person whose life was far too short.
Life is a human right that was denied to me.
In memory of the innocent victims
What happened on 7 October stands alone and is a crime against humanity.
Stop relativising it and comparing it with the consequences it has triggered.
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Sorry, but I really like his version in this movie
(Jud Süß – Film ohne Gewissen 2010)
Himmler. In fact, it's quite easy for me to draw him, which is quite strange to me, and I also don't like way his cap looks
I love learning about everyone's characters and all the inspiration that went into making them! I normally don't go for historical fiction but this sounds amazing and genuinely well-researched. :D
Writers Challenge#4
Author Interview:
Hi guys.
It's me again and I guess I have another challenge this time and this is too all writers who haven't found their title, even if you have a title you can join.
OC inspirations.
And book inspirations.
How did your book grow into it now?
Was a fanfic to original story?
Vibes?
Optional.
What inspired you to write your WIP? It could be a book, a show, a person or even a character.
My current WIP is based on a Wolfblood, Twilight and Avatar:The Last Airbender.
Wolfblood gave me the way to write controlled werewolves, Twilight gave me my protagonist, Thalia but she was a nameless Black girl who had a relationship with a vampire and Avatar for my panther shifters but slowly the book changed, and the Avatar gave me inspo for her abilities and she was a mortal who lived with supernatural creatures.
So yeah.
Thats it.
The vibe is a snowy winter wonderland filled with secrets and monsters and strange happenings after a strange human girl meets a tribe of Inuit werewolves.
The tone is quite dark at first.
Sorry for the tags.
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I hate the cosmetic surgery industry for so many reasons I really do. But the line between cosmetic and medically necessary plastic surgeries is as a cloud, and we cannot sacrifice bodily autonomy for bans so. We need to dismantle white supremacy and the patriarchy in order to effectively tackle the issue. I should be able to get elective top surgery without medicalising my transness you get?
The Bob Semple Tank's better relative but AA.
A British A.A Light Tank Mk.1 armed with four 7.92mm Besa MG’s - Egypt 1942
One of many reasons why Japn was losing the war.
A Japanese Type 95 light tank damaged during fighting - Malaya, Dec 1941
I saw this on quora and thought it was cool and wanted to share it on here. Its a long read but crazy. Its from Erik Painter
They did try. And they did capture Navajo men. However, they were unsuccessful in using them to decipher the code. The reason was simple. The Navajo Code was a code that used Navajo. It was not spoken Navajo. To a Navajo speaker, who had not learned the code, a Navajo Code talker sending a message sounds like a string of unconnected Navajo words with no grammar. It was incomprehensible. So, when the Japanese captured a Navajo man named Joe Kieyoomia in the Philippines, he could not really help them even though they tortured him. It was nonsense to him.
The Navajo Code had to be learned and memorized. It was designed to transmit a word by word or letter by letter exact English message. They did not just chat in Navajo. That could have been understood by a Navajo speaker, but more importantly translation is never, ever exact. It would not transmit precise messages. There were about 400 words in the Code.
The first 31 Navajo Marines created the Code with the help of one non-Navajo speaker officer who knew cryptography. The first part of the Code was made to transmit English letters. For each English letter there were three (or sometimes just two) English words that started with that letter and then they were translated into Navajo words. In this way English words could be spelled out with a substitution code. The alternate words were randomly switched around. So, for English B there were the Navajo words for Badger, Bear and Barrel. In Navajo that is: nahashchʼidí, shash, and tóshjeeh. Or the letter A was Red Ant, Axe, or Apple. In Navajo that is: wóláchííʼ, tsénił , or bilasáana. The English letter D was: bįįh=deer, and łééchąąʼí =dog, and chʼįįdii= bad spiritual substance (devil).
For the letter substitution part of the Code the word “bad” could be spelled out a number of ways. To a regular Navajo speaker it would sound like: “Bear, Apple, Dog”. Or other times it could be “ Barrel, Red Ant, Bad Spirit (devil)”. Other times it could be “Badger, Axe, Deer”. As you can see, for just this short English word, “bad” there are many possibilities and to the combination of words used. To a Navajo speaker, all versions are nonsense. It gets worse for a Navajo speaker because normal Navajo conjugates in complex ways (ways an English or Japanese speaker would never dream of). These lists of words have no indicators of how they are connected. It is utterly non-grammatical.
Then to speed it up, and make it even harder to break, they substituted Navajo words for common military words that were often used in short military messages. None were just translations. A few you could figure out. For example, a Lieutenant was “one silver bar” in Navajo. A Major was “Gold Oak Leaf” n Navajo. Other things were less obvious like a Battleship was the word for Whale in Navajo. A Mine Sweeper was the Navajo word for Beaver.
A note here as it seems hard for some people to get this. Navajo is a modern and living language. There are, and were, perfectly useful Navajo words for submarines and battleships and tanks. They did not “make up words because they had no words for modern things”. This is an incorrect story that gets around in the media. There had been Navajo in the military before WWII. The Navajo language is different and perhaps more flexible than English. It is easy to generate new words. They borrow very few words and have words for any modern thing you can imagine. The words for telephone, or train, or nuclear power are all made from Navajo stem roots.
Because the Navajo Marines had memorized the Code there was no code book to capture. There was no machine to capture either. They could transmit it over open radio waves. They could decode it in a few minutes as opposed to the 30 minutes to two hours that other code systems at the time took. And, no Navajo speaker who had not learned the Code could make any sense out of it.
The Japanese had no published texts on Navajo. There was no internationally available description of the language. The Germans had not studied it at the time. The Japanese did suspect it was Navajo. Linguists thought it was in the Athabaskan language family. That would be pretty clear to a linguist. And Navajo had the biggest group of speakers of any Athabaskan language. That is why they tortured Joe Kieyoomia. But, he could not make sense of it. It was just a list of words with no grammar and no meaning.
For Japanese, even writing the language down from the radio broadcasts would be very hard. It has lots of sounds that are not in Japanese or in English. It is hard to tell where some words end or start because the glottal stop is a common consonant. Frequency analysis would have been hard because they did not use a single word for each letter. And some words stood for words instead of for a letter. The task of breaking it was very hard.
Here is an example of a coded message:
béésh łigai naaki joogii gini dibé tsénił áchį́į́h bee ąą ńdítį́hí joogi béésh łóó’ dóó łóóʼtsoh
When translated directly from Navajo into English it is:
“SILVER TWO BLUE JAY CHICKEN HAWK SHEEP AXE NOSE KEY BLUE JAY IRON FISH AND WHALE. “
You can see why a Navajo who did not know the Code would not be able to do much with that. The message above means: “CAPTAIN, THE DIVE BOMBER SANK THE SUBMARINE AND BATTLESHIP.”
“Two silver bars” =captain. Blue jay= the. Chicken hawk= dive bomber. Iron fish = sub. Whale= battleship. “Sheep, Axe Nose Key”=sank. The only normal use of a Navajo word is the word for “and” which is “dóó ”. For the same message the word “sank” would be spelled out another way on a different day. For example, it could be: “snake, apple, needle, kettle”.
Here, below on the video, is a verbal example of how the code sounded. The code sent below sounded to a Navajo speaker who did not know the Code like this: “sheep eyes nose deer destroy tea mouse turkey onion sick horse 362 bear”. To a trained Code Talker, he would write down: “Send demolition team to hill 362 B”. The Navajo Marine Coder Talker then would give it to someone to take the message to the proper person. It only takes a minute or so to code and decode.
The prisoner defiantly stares down Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s right-hand-man, who was responsible for the Holocaust. Greasley’s confrontation with Himmler took place during an inspection of the camp he was confined to. The inmates were ordered to remain seated, but Greasley refused. Horace Greasley also escaped the death camp, but sneaked back in to rescue a German woman whom he had fallen in love with.
