Hi /his/
Always been interested in Nazi Germany.
Bought Inside the Third Reich a few years ago but haven't read it yet.
Looking for a book that tells me a ton of stuff from the start til the end of the Third Reich. My problem is I don't want anything biased in any direction. I don't want some Jew hating on Hitler and nor do I want an edgy Nazi sympathiser.
The books that I've found so far that seem most reputable are:
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer. I heard this guy is very anti nazi Germany and it comes out in his writing
Hitler's War by Irving. Supposedly a lot of people say this guy can't be trusted while others say his book is everything you need to know
The Third Reich trilogy by Evans. Still looking into this one
Any recommendations?
Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning is probably the most important book written on the Holocaust ever. It won't give you a complete picture of the holocaust apparatus, but focuses on the microcosm of a individual police battalion.
Ian Kershaw's Hitler biography is huge, but indespensible. It will tear down a bunch of myths before they can enter into your brain. He basically sorts through 60 years of historiagraphy and explains different works so you don't have to read them.
Well, I think one should realize that if the source is good it will be highly critical of Nazi Germany and its policies.
They were bad, either morally or economically, by and large. Lots of corruption and favorites playing, the inability of the average German to accept that they did wrong. The whole racism and warmongering thing.
Any good source will rightfully shit on Nazi Germany at least a little.
If you just want firsthand accounts that's as unbiased as you're really gonna get. In which case Max Hasting wrote The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 which is great and covers Germans and Russians mainly although not exclusively.
Not exactly a big picture kind of thing, but it covers how the war ended and the chaos that was Germany at that time.
Good read.
>>903399
>If you just want firsthand accounts that's as unbiased as you're really gonna get
stop perpetuating this meme. first hand accounts are by definition biased. historians trained to analyze sources do a good job analyzing differing sources and creating an accurate narrative.
You should be able to solve this
>>902124
What problem is there to solve?
>>902124
I pull the lever. More people (the families and friends of the victims) would be pissed at me if I didn't.
I'm supposed to kill the single person to save the other five, right?
which public intellectual, living or dead, has the most sycophantic and intellectually bankrupt fanbase ?
>>904877
Dawkins, Harris, Neil dGT, Cristopher Hitchens, Lawrence Krauss
all of them
people who focus on worshiping a single intellectual shouldn't be taken seriously
New Atheism/Neo-Atheism
>WE HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS
Can someone give me a semi-detailed summary of French history from the end of the Ancien Regime to the beginning of Napoleon III's reign?
I know the Napoleon bits, but everything else is a little fuzzy
>>904403
Here's a very sloppy summary
- France is in a financial crisis due to debts and etc. Beyond this a number of other factors contribute to unrest and the coming Revolution.
- The Third Estate forms the National Assembly as a populist solution to the crisis France finds itself declaring itself a body of the people. An outpouring of support from across the country, the Parisian populace, and some of the clergy/nobility make it impossible to immediately crush the National Assembly.
- The King/Powers That Be attempts to politically maneuver to cut the National Assembly off and otherwise render it impotent, however this comes off as indicative of an impending violent crackdown to the people whether due to misunderstanding or otherwise.
- The people take the initiative and Storm the Bastille, the political power shifts to the National Assembly. Feudalism is abolished, the rights of man are declared, a constitution is drafted. France becomes a Constitutional Monarchy.
- The powers of Europe become incredibly frightened by this of course not the least because France is the foremost land power on the continent.
>>904446
- The National Assembly continues to solidify its hold on power as various actions by the nobility and King lead to popular support continually eroding from them the King attempting to flee the country being a big one.
- France invades the Austrian Netherlands after demanding the Austrians retreat from the border fearing a counter-revolutionary invasion. The Revolutionary Wars begin.
- Factions form in the National Assembly radicals on one side want to push the Revolution further, conservatives on the other say the Revolution has succeeded and the status quo is fine now. This and other factors lead to unrest continuing to grow as the legislative process fails to bring stability to the nation.
- Meanwhile the Revolutionary armies disintegrate on the field and German forces occupy a bit of France before declaring they intend to restore the French King to his full powers. The people take this as a sign the King is conspiring with foreign powers against his own people. Support for the king evaporates.
- Louis is executed. The radical wing of the Revolution gains a fever pitch of support and the Revolution turns to extreme measures which lead to the war turning slightly in the favor of the Revolution with minor gains made in Germany and Italy.
- The Jacobins under Robespierre take overall control of the country and unleash the Reign of Terror seeking to protect France from enemies within and without. Cue lots of minor revolts in France being crushed bloodily, cue war on every border of France seesawing back and forth but with France generally making gains such as conquering the Netherlands, cue lots of executions.
>>904472
- The excess of the Reign of Terror eventually lead to an undercurrent movement rising against Robespierre in the Thermidorian Reaction. The Jacobins are mostly arrested and their politically more conservative rivals throughout the Revolution the Girondists take power. A minor White Terror occurs against the Jacobins.
- A new constitution is drafted and the Directory is formed as the new revolutionary government. The Directory turns toward dictatorship and forgoes democracy in many cases.
- On the war front France suffers some defeats but ends up keeping its conquest of Belgium and puppet state in the Netherlands, conquering Switzerland, and a good chunk of Italy with Napoleon winning particular glory there. The defeat in Italy shocks Austria into a peace treaty which gives temporary reprise in the war. Britain is the only nation still at war with France.
- France is unsurprisingly still hemorrhaging money at this point given the internal nation is a mess and wartime expenses, the country essentially supports itself by extracting resources from the locales it conquered throughout the war. With the land war quiet for not Napoleon is sent on expedition to Egypt to both disrupt British connection to their Indian colonies and establish French trade.
Tell me about Voltaire.
he was number one
Didn't he write that critical article on China in the Encyclopédie, while it was actually about France but he didn't want to be beheaded?
>Holy
What was the extent of Jewish involvement in the transatlantic slave trade?
>inb4 "muh /pol/"
Sure, but can you just answer the question?
>>904123
Negligible really. At it's height the TAST was taking place at a time when Jewish migrants to America were seeking religious freedom or a fresh start. Any Jews that had wealth or land in Europe had no reason to leave really. As far as Jewish slaveowners, some definitely did exist but like black slaveowners they were the exception not the rule
Jews and Judaism in the United States: A Documentary History (New York: Behrman House, Inc., Pub, 1983), pp. 14, 23-25.
"Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonial slave trade; indeed, the bylaws of the Recife and Mauricia congregations (1648) included an imposta (Jewish tax) of five soldos for each Negro slave a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies Company. Slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish holiday. In Curacao in the seventeenth century, as well as in the British colonies of Barbados and Jamaica in the eighteenth century, Jewish merchants played a major role in the slave trade. In fact, in all the American colonies, whether French (Martinique), British, or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated.
>>904150
>leave
One doesn't have to move to America to profit off of the slave trade. This doesn't really answer the question at all, I'm not asking about Jewish immigration.
I want some sources or opinions and quotes relating to reality.
Basically answering the question, whose reality?
I got scared while sleeping, i need to read some things about it to form my own opinion.
Down into the rabbit hole i go
Read the fabric of the cosmos if you want a non-meme answer to the question. It deals with general relativity, quantum mechanics and superstrings.
>>903916
here is the bombshell: reflexivity permits us to see that the belief in rationality, induction/generalization/categorization, imagination, intellect, reason does not lead us to the good life.
animals are the most rational beings, but they lack reflexivity since they fail to see that the faith in abstraction to reach knowledge/truth/objectivity/reality/universality is sterile since it brings only conventions which are, by definition, always fluctuating through, at least, time and space... rationality brings is a deception and a disappointment.
the point of reflexivity is to notice the failure of rationalism, to embrace PURE empiricism, that is to say, to stop fantasizing about a collective reality, but rather to stick to personal phenomena in analyzing them.
the point of reflexivity is to make us wonder what do we want.
Do you want to create norms, conventions in order to claim that you create norms and that these norms are truths that you try to impose on others, until some people will come to you and claim that their conventions are the truths and yours are lies ?
Is aesthetic perfection achieved by "strategic imperfections" such as with the case of greek/roman statues/buildings deteriorating in shape and color over time? If not, how is aesthetic perfection achieved?
>>903836
Subjective taste.
>>903836
Why would you assume there is such a thing? What one person finds aesthetically pleasing, another might find ugly. What sense is there to talk of an ideal when the base is all over the place?
Would that 0.1 come from some random trader that got a Japanese slave or something?
I'm curious about that, how did you trace ancestry ?
>>902763
well, there is a hundreds of year old village of japanese in Spain.
Maybe there?
What was an ordinary rifleman's motivation to fight in WW2 for
>germany
>soviet union
>france
>united kingdom
>italy
>japan
>china
>finland
>romania
They got a letter saying that they had to join the army or they would be put in prison.
I don't think there is such a thing. People were drafted - simple as that. Sure there was a whole bulk of ideologically driven people, but my grandafther was a violinist and a musician, driven by artistic pursuits who probably could not care less about war on a ideological level.
Is it true that cities and suburbs are isolating places since they are too large for a local community to form. Is this a modern phenomenon or did ancient cities also see this destruction on "tribal(used very loosely) identity.
>>900766
. Modern civilization has pushed man onward; it has generated in him the need for an increasingly greater number of things; it has made him more and more insufficient to himself and powerless. Thus, every new invention and technological discovery, rather than a conquest, really represents a defeat and a new whiplash in an ever faster race blindly taking place within a system of conditionings that are increasingly serious and irreversible and that for the most part go unnoticed. This is how the various paths converge: technological civilization, the dominant role of the economy, and the civilization of production and consumption all complement the exaltation of becoming and progress; in other words, they contribute to the manifestation of the "demonic" element in the modern world.
This present "civilization", starting from Western hotbeds, has extended the contagion to every land that was still healthy and has brought to all strata of society and all races the following "gifts": restlessness, dissatisfaction, resentment, the need to go further and faster, and the inability to posses one's life in simplicity, independence, and balance.
Even the relationship of the modern economy to the machines is significant with regard to the arousal of forces that surpass the plans of those who initially evoked them and carry everything along them. Once all interest for anything superior and transcendent was either lost or laughed at, the only reference point remaining was man's need, in a purely material and animal sense. Moreover, the traditional principle of the limitation of one's need within the context of a normal economy (a balanced economy based on consumption) was replaced with the principle of acceptance and multiplication of need.
>>900791
>Even the relationship of the modern economy to the machines is significant with regard to the arousal of forces that surpass the plans of those who initially evoked them and carry everything along them.
lol
>>900791
Sounds like Unabomber but that aint Unabomber. So who is it?
>feeling bad about China's "century of humiliation"
Why the hell for? China in the 19th Century was just another imperial power holding other nations (Xinjiang, the Han, Dzhungaria) in subjugation, same as the Ottomans and Russia. Two of the so-called wars in which they were humiliated were being fought by Chinese troops overseas (in Vietnam and Korea).
The Qing were an empire built on conquest. They deserved to be raped. They were asking for it.
>>899798
I'm inclined to agree, but the current status of the Manchus is just fucking pitiful. Went out with a whimper into the recesses of history, absorbed into the Han cultural monstrosity.
>>899798
>Those uniforms on the left.
Hnnnng
>>899798
Because the average Chink paid the price for many of those things?
>Unequal treaties.
>Taiping rebellion.
>Opium addiction.
>Colonial powers treating Chinese like shit in their own country and dictating Chink policy.
Also Xinjiang was a Chinese invention. The Uyghurs did not hold the whole fucking province: just the city states of Khotan and a bit to the North. Dzungaria was asking for it when it tried going Mongol Empire 3.0 but promptly got itself fucked in the 1700's.
Don't even get me started on how Tibet asked for Chinese overlordship versus the scary Gurkhas, and then have the gall to M-MUH INDEPENDENCE when the Qing was declining.
A crazy dude was handing out these comic books on the street. What's should I say to them next time to destroy their delusions.
>>899430
Nothing, guys who read Chick Tracts seriously are at the point where they'll just call anything you say to contradict them "the lies of Satan" and then give you false pity over your damned soul and how you will burn in eternal hellfire because you don't match their specific version of "accepting Jesus".
You should thank him for fighting the Satanic Masonic cult known as the Catholic Church
usually i just see them left in random public toilets
Why didn't the USA apply the Monroe Doctrine during the Falklands Conflict ?
Do they still harbor fears of the long gone British Empire ?
>>896634
cold war realities and balancing the needs of a right wing dictatorship in argentina whom you know won't be going communist versus a huge ally in NATO who you need to keep on side and have a cultural affinity with.
not rocket science bru
>>896634
Because Britian under Thatcher was literally the Only European NATO member who actually cared about Fighting communism
>>896634
>It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. At the same time, the doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries.
How does the Monroe Doctrine affect intervention in what was for the British a defensive war?
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