Debate on the significance of WW2 in 'History': Dr Nick Lloyd: “The world wars’ central place in British memory and identity is right, proper and perfectly understandable” Dr Tracy Borman: “Fixation with the world wars – significant though they were – gives a distorted view of British history” Debate: Is British history too fixated with the story of the world wars?
Shucks, even I know not everyone has an in interest in 75 year old history...or history in general, for that matter. However, I still don't miss the opportunities each semester to goad my eldest, who is receiving her BS in some phase of history in December, by asking what subject of WWII they are studying. Apparently it is not heavily scheduled topic at her college.
I often think of this restaurant in Glendale, NY on April 20. A co-worker took me there in the early eighties. He grew up in the neighborhood and said it was well known that they had a party in the back room every April 20. Large Austrian and German population in the area at the time. Photos :: Zum Stammtisch Restaurant :: Glendale, NY 11385 :: Authentic & Traditional German Cuisine
Some time ago I heard an interview on the radio with a guy who used to work as a safe cracker in occupied France. His main role to to allow the Resistance to access documents in the offices of various German officials without the latter being aware that this had happened. This meant having to suss out the combinations of many safes. He said that one of the first ones to try was based on 2004
My favourite Hitler's birthday is his 1945 one. Middle-aged birthdays seem to trigger a certain amount of introspection. Introspect that, Adolf: [April 20, 1945], HQ Twelfth Army Group situation map. And on the thread theme. Think I've seen more people lazily called a Nazi and compared to Hitler in the last few years than I ever noticed before. The obsession isn't really going away. Dodgy business. The more the accusation is used unjustifiably, the weaker its power. Once everyone you don't like is a Nazi/Hitler, nobody is.
Yes, which makes the work of real fascists and Nazis easier for them and harder for the rest of us to detect.
Cambridge University society bans speaker over Hitler impression - BBC News Then he wasn't. Cambridge University debating society drops speaker blacklist - BBC News
Listened to him wither on the radio weak little gimp Good old John Cleese ,star bloke taught them a lesson
Anophthalmus hitleri - Wikipedia "The scientific name of the beetle comes from an Austrian collector, Oskar Scheibel, who was sold a specimen of a then undocumented species in 1933. Its species name was made a dedication to Adolf Hitler, who had recently become Chancellor of Germany. The genus name means eyeless, so the full name can be translated as "the eyeless one of Hitler". The dedication did not go unnoticed by the Führer, who sent Scheibel a letter showing his gratitude"
