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I’d say they have a strong case and precedent has recently been set with other museums/organizations choosing to return artifacts to the nations they were plundered from, but knowing the greed inherent in human enterprises I’d sadly be surprised if they received them

You just hit the enter key on the computer. The returrn button on the phone.

That brings you to another paragraph

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I am probably gonna get crucified haha

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Interesting…can’t wait for the replies to this one.

Lo sabía , sabía que lo había tenido Rauwolf. Era por pura lógica. Lo sabía.

Isn't this more of a norms/custom thing though at this point? As in, there's no actual legislation/policy/etc stopping them from doing it?

Using a CPI or GDP deflator index doesn't really work well over such a long time frame. There's been different monetary regimes both in the US and in Germany at that time. You have to look at it as an underwriting of whether the govt could pay and the economy could be taxed. CPI in the US is corrupted a long time ago for political minimization. So whenever I see John D Rockefeller was worth $x billion in today's dollars or a 1890 house was cost $y in 2022 dollars it doesn't really compute. You have to look at average wages and average product prices to get proper proportionality.

rearmament happened in semi normal ways via giving contracts to companies, allow bidding. Do not check the production processes. This was all still done under the blanket of a normal economy (though the Nazis incurred massive debt that necessitated a war)

Total war footing of WW1 and WW2 implied the military administration / Nazi regime taking over all means of production to gear everything for the war effort e. By 1917/18 that meant intentionally stripping the agrarian sectors of manpower and resources to fuel the army for a last push (which meant requisiting last horses, drafting formerly essential workers and prioritizing the army for food supplies over food for the civilian population). Which in the end caused famine and shortages and a collapse at the home front.

The Nazis were very afraid of such a thing happening if it looked like they would repeat that until late into the war so they tried to maintain a facade of supplying basic goods normally.

So one can say they were already funneling lots of money into the military before WW2, more than the economy could afford, but various levers were left untouched until somewhere after Barbarossa failed.

Case in point for Barbarossa they still ordered tanks and planes normally and did not press for elevated production numbers, thinking it would be over like France anyway.

So sure, Germany had a more militarized economy than the western allies before WW2, but it did not activate all available levers necessary a totalitarian regime has available (see Soviet Union) until after their invasion of the Soviet Union failed.

Could the original red have faded, and this was a refresh? That possibility doesn't seem to be excluded by the data.

A crucial point is that these maps were not worth much money at the time the red ink was applied. It is not comparable to doing do in today's market in which the documents sell for a great deal.

This would have been far more readable broken up into paragraphs.

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But they were comfined to only north western india

Also rajput means "son of king"

Uboats stayed away from coasts b/c they were vulnerable to submarine spotter planes. The US and Britain used PBY-5s. There's other things like submarine nets, placing boats around each other to shield a boat. The other thing was German intelligence just wasn't very good compared to the allies. There's no German equivalent to cracking the Enigma machine.

Soviets did bomb and a lot of their pilot groups are very famous. There's lots of stories and media about the Night Witches. The Long Range Air Force (ADD) started bombing German cities in '42. Their tempo increased as the Soviet's progressed. I think it's mostly that media rarely focuses on Soviet air power. People seem to be more interested in their tanks.

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The Killing of America (1981) - doc about violence in America from the 60s to 1981. The real kicker is that it only got worse during the 80 and 90s.

Every society, certainly every powerful society, seems to be confident in its moral superiority. Military conquest, enslavement, and mass murder were apparently considered normal actions for most of history, so the real question is, why did ideological opposition to colonialism develop? It probably partly comes out of political opposition due to the unequal distribution of costs and benefits in the colonizing society, but I would guess it’s mostly from people applying the ethics they’ve learned in highly pacified cores to the world in general.

Not an historian.

Lux, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark basically never stood a chance against Germany. Small countries with small armies. No room to trade space for time.

In 1939, France arguably had a larger and better equipped army than Germany (for instance, the French armor was estimated to be superior to German armor at the time) , but the French army collapsed due in large part to poor generalship and and to a lesser extent poor morale.

I'm looking for any books/information (in English) on how average people lived in Germany/Prussia during the late nineteenth century. Things like food, dress, social interactions, etc., especially in rural areas.

Can anyone suggest anything?

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If the Japanese managed to keep the rest of China in a perpetual civil war, maybe.

If the rest of China managed to consolidate, unlikely.

The scenario is complicated by the fact that the mere presence of the Japanese served as somewhat of a unifying presence. And if I remember correctly, the Chinese at the time actively worked to keep Japan from sitting back and consolidating. I think I recall hearing somewhere that the Nationalists hit the Japanese in Shanghai specifically to overextend them, but if someone can speak to that with more authority I would appreciate it.

The Soviets didn't have the type of Air Force that the Western Powers did. That said, they weren't very shy about hitting cities with artillery, or sacking them the old-fashioned way.

One thing people forget about naval warfare is that the ocean is really big. Technologies like radar only really came into their own during WWII, and a huge part of every admiral's job was actually finding the enemy fleet. It's one of the reasons why the Allies' code breaking advantage was so important.

Furthermore, the U-boat was a strategic weapon that was generally used to raid merchant shipping. If surface vessels could find U-boats, they were generally capable of winning the tactical engagement. Especially because the Western vessels often operated in flotillas that included weapons specifically designed to counter submersibles.

Edit: spelling.

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