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Goes hard (and read theory)
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In 1938, the Third Reich expelled approximately 17,000 Polish Jews from German territory
https://sci-hub.ru/10.1080/23256249.2017.1385844Highlighting Saxony as one example, this article shows that the brutal mass expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany was not only an unprecedented act of mass violence and viciousness against Jews in Germany, but also became a precursor, a ‘test case,’ for subsequent mass deportations. The Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS and the Main Office of the Security Police most likely did not have fully developed plans for mass deportations ready in October 1938. ... read full post
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The history of the skull and crossbones symbol in the Third Reich
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Skull_and_crossbones_symbols_of_Nazi_GermanyAs humans, we have been depicting our disembodied brainpans for millennia, and their symbolic employment to represent death (for obvious reasons) is at least centuries old. The skull and crossbones is a newer variant that dates back to the late Middle Ages and is most famous in the context of piracy, because that is typically where we first see it as children. ... read full post
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The Weimar Republic rarely prosecuted fascists, but suppressed communists regularly
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Quoting Michael Parenti’s Dirty Truths, pages 39–40: ... read full post
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Crash course on the Freikorps: social democracy’s pawns & German Fascism’s heritage
https://sci-hub.ru/10.1007/978-3-030-13917-9_3I have a feeling that you all already know the basics, but in case somebody does not: the Freikorps was a counterrevolutionary paramilitary that the Weimar Republic’s social democratic élite used as pawns against the communists and other discontented elements from the lower‐classes. Similarly to the White Army and the szabadcsapatok, it was protofascist: technically not fascist (yet), but still an important inspiration and many members would go on to explicitly support Fascism when it evolved into an institutional phenomenon in Germany. It actually has a pretty long history, but the focus here is on the early twentieth century. ... read full post
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Dude was just too busy collecting scarves and hanging out with his bro to find a wife. No other possible explanation.
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The Forgotten Crops of North America: The Eastern Agricultural Complex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpTUCS3mPaYFour thousand years ago in Eastern North America, a phenomenon was starting. A suite of plants were being domesticated into the first crops of North America. Seven plants, most of them long forgotten, would form the Eastern Agricultural Complex and become the genesis of agriculture in North America. In this episode, we'll explore the rise and fall of the Eastern Agricultural Complex.
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How the social democratic élite set the stage for German Fascism
https://web.archive.org/web/20210827214201/https://cosmonaut.blog/2019/01/07/fighting-fascism-communist-resistance-to-the-nazis-1928-1933It is wrong […] to assume that the KPD devoted all of its resources to a fight against the SPD and neglected the [Fascist] threat. On the contrary, most of the political violence practiced by the KPD during 1928–1933 was directed against the [Fascists], not the [Social Democrats]. It is also incorrect to assume that the divide between the KPD and the SPD was entirely motivated by the orders of the Comintern. ... read full post
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Who truly defeated fascism?
https://tankie.tube/w/ikZdhDzZEpGjDvq6X7hjRRcross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37927802
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Red Army's WW2 Winter Secret: The Valenki
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bSajVU8gozo39
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[Some CWs for discussion of the USA's war crimes in the comments] Vietnam Women's Museum must be so embarrassing to visit as an American
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1oapsy4/vietnam_womens_museum_must_be_so_embarassing_to/Yeah I support the troops, the woman brigades of the NLF.
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The Women Who Fought Japan’s Empire
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/literature-japanese-imperialism-women-guerrilla-war/12
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India in 1525. The beginning of the Mughal Empire
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55677001
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Nine decades ago, the Fascists killed 28 children by giving them an experimental and unready vaccine
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In March 1933, the Fascist authorities selected the town of Gruaro to experiment with a newly developed diphtheria vaccine, and 253 children aged between thirteen months and eight years were recruited in this prophylactic operation despite the village doctor’s opposition. ... read full post
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Question about using WWII as propaganda to refocus everyone on Nazis instead of the US.
Somewhat of a delicate matter as nobody wants to be seen as possibly downplaying how bad Nazis were. But I'm curious about the idea that the US played up WWII as a way to re-write history in a more beneficial way. ... read full post
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The Man with the SS brand on his Right Hand
Jonathan Walker, born 1799 in Massachusetts, was an abolitionist who spent his life aiding excaped slaves find safe lands to settle and build new lives. ... read full post
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On this day 66 years ago, Stepan Bandera died painfully. This was his life.
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Quoting Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe’s Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist — Fascism, Genocide, and Cult, page 237: ... read full post
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When Europeans first encountered leaf insects, they believed they were actual living leaves that grew from trees.
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Bronze statue of Eros sleeping Greek 3rd–2nd century BCE
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55475956 ... read full post
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DDR: What was the German Democratic Republic? | MR Online
https://mronline.org/2025/10/13/ddr-what-was-the-german-democratic-republic/... read full post
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The Cultural Revolution's Biggest Mystery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmwTqo_47JM29
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Help tracking down a Soviet WW2 vet's info
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Life in Reagan's America (1982) | Regular Americans on Recession and Unemployment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxJ2tQWtSGs11
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Alexander Visits the Sage Plato, from the Khamsa of Amir Khusrau
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55096503 ... read full post
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What the 3,500-year-old holiday of Nowruz can teach us
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240318-what-the-3500-year-old-holiday-of-nowruz-can-teach-us-in-2024cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55045458
In the season of Nowruz, the annual 13-day festival that marks the start of spring, millions of people all over the world with roots in the former Persian Empire celebrate.
Nowruz was originally a Zoroastrianism holiday, part of the ancient monotheistic religion founded by the prophet Zoroaster in approximately 500 BCE.