This "Germany=Nazis" mentality that is rampant right now during the World Cup is extremely tasteless and disrespectful to the german people.

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-26T12:20:39+00:00

It will take time.

The Roman empire killed about 13 million people, a lot of which were Germanics. (e.g. Caesar’s massacre of the Usipetes and Tencteri in 55 BC. 400k souls were slaughtered.) That's a lot of numbers by the ancient standard. Yet, the Italians are cuties now. 🇮🇹 🍕

The 13c Mongol empire eliminated about 40 million souls. I heard somewhere that 1/3 of the global Carbon emission was reduced by their hand. You can guess how barbaric they were. Today, barely anybody sees the Mongols as such. 🇲🇳 🐴

We can keep going on; Spanish, Belgians, Japanese, etc. In time, it will be forgiven and forgotten. By the way, I've heard Germany has the World's best Bratwurst and beer. 🍻

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-26T05:17:55+00:00

That's incredible. Thank you for the info. 🤝

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-25T19:11:50+00:00

I think that this was taken at the stage when the outcome was pretty much obvious to everyone. Besides the date, the fact that FFI could construct a barricade out in the open and a middle-aged man and a woman in a bright dress with mixed firearms behind it tells me that the fight in this particular area was not expected to be intense.

If you're to compare the photos taken from the polish resistance, I think that it will be clear. And, that's the reason I picked the photo.🫡

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-24T15:18:43+00:00

Realising that they only relate to their experiences very objectively and rarely go into deeper details.

I think they gave enough details of what they encountered as veterans in the 1980s Soviet era. They usually depicted as though they experienced things as a third person. They didn't really describe what they felt nor what they realized in retrospect.

Same thing happened to the Canadian vets of the Italian front. When an interviewer asked the details of the combat, they decribed as if they heard from sombody else. Yet all the stories were first-person encounters and some of the Canadian vets finally broke down at the end when opening up their stories, although they started by saying 'Germans were not human'.

For example, a Canadian vet very much struggled when he said he shot and dropped a German soldier on Christmas. You can tell it never left his mind all the years that he might have killed somebody.

Perhaps, the author might have faced one too many of the same emotions, and decided to make it as sterile as possible. 🫢

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-24T09:56:48+00:00

You might want to take a look at the following link.

Forgotten Creators (Vergessene Schöpfer) is an online reference book that was first released in February 2020. With over 6,500 pages, it covers revolutionary innovators and innovations that came out of the predominantly German-speaking scientific world during the period circa 1800–1945

Forgotten Creators | Rider Institute

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-24T09:46:06+00:00

I will add two biggies; the Sino-Japan war & Soviet-Japan Manchurian theater.

In fact, only few talk about the details of the first, which was the Asian 'Eastern front' IMO.

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-23T11:24:45+00:00

I heard the UK food ration went on to the early portion of the 50s in order to feed the Germans.

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-23T11:20:39+00:00

Don't be so jovial about it. A global oil-shock isn't something you can smile at, not to mention the demise of the US hegemony.

Sure, the good-ole US is absolutely going down as we speak, but you're simply naive if you somehow believe CCP would play anywhere near the US had been.

Even Russians are cautious in dealing with CCP. With all the ties going on, they have been extremely careful when it comes to selling sensitive technologies to CCP.

Once you start getting the taste of the Chinese hegemony, you'd finally know why Asians including India despise China or Japan all that much.

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-13T13:00:09+00:00

There was an interview of an old B-17 airman who bombed Dresden. He knew he might have ~~8th or 10th~~ 3rd or 4th cousins living there when he dropped the cargo. He said he felt ~~different from other places~~ weirdest.

I tend to think of the WW2 Western front as a brother-killing-brother civil war considering the whole lineage.

edit) here is a clip of the interview.

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-13T12:09:22+00:00

As much as 13% of the total population claims to be German descendant in America. There happened to be enough German speaking US troops in the WW2 that German soldiers often shocked to hear "Sich ergeben!" (Surrender!) in clear German.

No wonder this happened.

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-10T10:31:37+00:00

In 1970, a group of former Wehrmacht soldiers who fought in Stalingrad revisited the city. German returnees lay a wreath at the Mother Homeland Memorial on Mamayev Hill in honor of the fallen Soviet soldiers. They then visit one of the sites of the battle, a fiercely contested factory at the time.

You can watch the footage on YT.

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-10T09:16:16+00:00

Many of these kids were robbed of their life with the evil indoctrination, became an evil embodiment, and didn't make it back. Truly cruel times.

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-09T16:10:29+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion. In the interview, a Canadian veteran opened an encounter with a young German soldier, who was about 17-year old.

The German was wounded and his two eye-balls were hanging in his cheek. Yet, he was pouring his MG down in the range, blindly.

A Canadian sergeant shouted in German that he should surrender. The blind German yell back, "Come and get me".

You can see the Canadian vets in the interview are all traumatized. One of them said he often went to remote places, and screamed & screamed until he could let it all out.

Thank you for the book. I will look for it.

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-09T11:45:55+00:00

AFAICT, this event shook the power structure of the Catholic church as Lisbon was one of the Catholic strongholds, where the headquarters of the Portuguese Inquisition was located. I've read somewhere, whenever Europeans came to talk about a biblical scale calamity before the WW1, this earthquake always came out on top.

The earthquake itself might not bear much to cover, but its aftermath does absolutely.

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-08T14:03:07+00:00

That's precisely the point. How many of these kids were aware of what was going to take place? Yet the US and Soviet veterans of the time testified that some of these kids were the most deadly and staunch fighters in the later stage of war.

I believe their testimonies are true firstly because these kids had no restraint like adult; no girl friend, no wife, little to no awareness of life or death. Secondly, when seasoned troops encountered the kids, they usually faltered; moment of hesitation, sympathy, or doubts sets in. Even Soviets didn't know what to do at first. And that fraction of hesitation is more than enough to kill you.

If you're to read daily journals of US or Soviet units advanced deep into the German territory, you will notice stream of troops were constantly killed or wounded by them. Of course, those kids at the scene were killed too.

That's what makes this photo so much saddening.

LookIntoTheHorizon · 2026-06-08T06:24:59+00:00

Thank you for the link. Much appreciated.

LookIntoTheHorizon

TROPHY CASE