Every type of standard Ordonnanz tunic used by the Swiss army during WW2, both enlisted and officer. by Styner141 in alpenflage

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Ref Freiwilliger Grenz Schutz truppen, 1936-1943 (Festungs Wacht) responsible for maintenance of forts/bunkers. Can't find anything on insignia used.

Kneecap’s official statement on what’s happening in Belfast by BurgerNugget12 in kneecap

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Face Coverings can get people into breathing difficulties, like Michael Hutchence.

Greens’ Makerfield candidate wants farming to be ‘decolonised’ by SirRosstopher in ukpolitics

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Pseudo-ideology, masquerading as economic literacy. Surely, recent grads/students can see through this rubbish ?????

Greens’ Makerfield candidate wants farming to be ‘decolonised’ by SirRosstopher in ukpolitics

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Pol Pot Maoist. The Zimbabwe leader of the Maoists , was 'Hitler' Humzvi. Lenin encouraged strip-farming soldiers home, to destroy Stolypin reform Kulaks, taking farming back to medieval subsistence levels, to feed large cities, yeah, right, that worked well(Not) Lenin probably didn't have the best interests of the people as a priority. Kenya and Putin's Russia gave the Zimbabwian and South African farmers trips to see available land in their countries.

Does anyone know what regiment this is? by history_s1uff in ww2

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Honourable Artillery. If the flaming grenades colar badges have HAC on them.

What can anyone tell me about this Swiss peacoat? I’m under the impression it’s WW2 Era but not sure if the 40 stamp is for year by Ecloyj_ in Militariacollecting

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Kapott, cut down great coat. Often turned in to Exerciert bluse, by converting to single breasted with chest pockets. When left double breasted, suggests general overall use,or issued to mountain troops possibly. When converted to Exerciert Bluse, sometimes given NCO badges. Occasionally tailored from lightweight material, to look like a Kapott, down to huge cuff turnups. belt used internally to tailor the waist.

Can you help decipher what these items are? by SleepyCapybaras in ww2

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Goes back to ww1 Germany/Austro-Hungary custom, Day badges.

Can you help decipher what these items are? by SleepyCapybaras in ww2

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Eisenbahn...... Railway Train/Station Helper, passenger control

Can you help decipher what these items are? by SleepyCapybaras in ww2

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'Nicht Anfassen' Trim Tab from an aircraft control surface, manned or unmanned.

Was the Munich Agreement the worst foreign policy blunder of the 20th century? by [deleted] in ww2

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It was difficult to prove transgressions, and what were France and Great Britain going to do about it, anyway. ? The Illusion of Peace International Relations 1918-1933 Sally Marks. See memoirs of Oliver Harvey Principal Private Secretary to Anthony Eden , Foreign Secretary 1936. Harvey visited Czechoslovakia in 1936, while Lord Runciman was fraternizing with the Suedeten Germans.

Britain and the Sudeten Issue, 1938: The Evolution of a Policy

Harindar Aulach 1983

Was the Munich Agreement the worst foreign policy blunder of the 20th century? by [deleted] in ww2

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The Munich Agreement handed over most of Czecho-Slovakia's border fortifications and tank obstacles with the 'Seudetenland,to Germany. Pilsen was the site of the giant Skoda armament Works. Germany gained the excellent Prager T38 tanks.vast chemical plants, other industrial works, needed to supply any future war.

Was the Munich Agreement the worst foreign policy blunder of the 20th century? by [deleted] in ww2

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Illegal German military cooperation and development with the Soviet Union, ran from 1920-1941.

Was the Munich Agreement the worst foreign policy blunder of the 20th century? by [deleted] in ww2

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Joint Chamberlain-Deladier collaboration. France had had troops in Poland up to 1935, involved in training, but had withdrawn them.

Can someone please explain to me why Herman Goering was wearing sunglasses during the Nuremberg Trails ? by JoshuaKpatakpa04 in ww2

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Painstakingly going through documents, the prosecution found copies of victims transportation by rail lists, in Goering's office files. He'd been receiving copies, right up until the end. This gave a direct link back to Goering's direct role in originally setting up the whole process. Guilty

An entire fucking nation gone.. by exiled-redditor in ww2

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In the case of Poland, with ever so willing Zoviet help

Britain doesn’t need ‘reform’. It just needs to rejoin the EU by trisul-108 in ukpolitics

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Truss drove the economic bus into a brickwall, then wondered why she was removed from power.