Operation Paperclip was far more consequential than Operation Osoaviakhim. Not to mention that Operation Osoaviakhim was much more of a reparation than Operation Paperclip was. Contrary to what @Archangel1313@lemmy.ca thinks, the differences between these two programmes are not trivia worth overlooking.

I finished reading Azar Gat’s British Armour Theory and the Rise of the Panzer Arm: Revising the Revisionists yesterday. To be honest, I’m surprised that my thread linking British armor doctrine to the Third Reich was not more popular, given our low opinion of the British Empire. Oh well, I don’t make these threads only for the clicks, so a low score is not that important to me.

Good grief.

I once bit into a large chunk of plastic that somehow got in some fast-food that I was eating, but I never considered contacting a lawyer. In fact, when I returned days later I explicitly told the manager that I did not want him to fire anybody; I just wanted them to be more careful. Customer service and the manager both gave me discounts, and that was the end of that.

Reminder that Chinese anticommunists knowingly collaborated with former Axis personnel.

The Jewish Chronicle is always wrongicle.

Not really. Goy is just an informal synonym for Gentile. ‘Shegetz’ and ‘shiksa’ are actual slurs for Gentiles.

The weakening of support from American Jews, although welcome, is not a decisive factor for the simple reason that contrary to the propaganda of the [neo]imperialist politicians and the anti-Semitic Right, U.S. support has never depended on Jewish support for Israel. Jews provided the moral alibi and political shield for that support. They have never been the reason for that support.

The one thing that I miss about Windows is how much easier it was to install and try computer games. Recently I purchased The Settlers® 2: Gold Edition through Good Old Games, and after installing it through Minigalaxy I tried to play it but DOSBox stalled on me until I forced it to crash. WINE gave me an error message, too, and I ran into similar difficulties when I tried to replay Majesty Gold HD. I don’t know how to fix my problems (yet) but the repeated complications almost make me miss Windows. Almost.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=-N2wGvZbxPg&list=PL452121672BB3A852&index=0

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=MH0owF_JRYQ

Yes, we get it.

I bet that the régime is going to abolish the age restrictions on recruitment soon. This ruling class is going to expend everything that it has before it allows the occupation to collapse.

True, Douhet did not invent the phenomenon of intentionally bombing civilians. Even so, he normalised the practice of aerially bombing civilians on purpose as if it were a legitimate warfare tactic; even if he did not introduce the concept of the USAF, there can be no doubt that he contributed to normalising the phenomenon.

I skimmed a couple of pages and it looks like a fictionalized account rather than a historian’s research.

I thank you for sharing this. It is frustrating what little information in English there is on this atrocity. With the apparent exception of ‎Caroline Schmitz’s & David R. L. Litchfield’s The Thyssen Art Macabre (which I cannot access), the few English sources that mention this at all have little to say about it. One example from Edward B. Westermann’s Drunk on Genocide, pg. 197:

On the eve of Palm Sunday, March 24, 1945, [Axis] administrators and female guests gathered for a party in the town of Rechnitz. Franz Podezin, the local Nazi Party leader, received a phone call in the evening concerning the execution of some two hundred Jews confined at the town’s railway station.¹

Taking a break from the party, a group of ten [Axis] administrators and a female teacher left the festivities and participated in the murder of the Jews, after which they returned to continue their revelry. After the war, a German press story detailed the murders using the catchphrase “massacre as a party game.”²

Then the author quickly moves on to betalk the wider context. I don’t resent him for doing that, but it is mildly irritating when trying to research this atrocity more.

In any event, it remains important to have evidence of the upper classes’ diuturnal depravity. Antisemitism is a bourgeois vice.

Oh, I forgot to mention that you can share this to /c/capitalismindecay. The Empire of Manchuria was part of the Axis powers.

false flag operation.

Wouldn’t be the first time, I’m afraid.

This is true, actually. If the hammer and sickle hadn’t massacred those 150 million straight White capitalist men, 175 billion would be alive today. So in reality the symbol killed 200 billion.

This symbol killed one hundred million straight White capitalist men.