>Rapes were allowed in practice by the German military in eastern and southeastern Europe, while northern and western countries were relatively spared. In Occupied Denmark, which initially agreed to collaborate with Nazi Germany, rapes were not widespread, and German officials promised to punish them.
>By contrast thousands of Soviet female nurses, doctors and field medics fell victim to rape when captured, and were often murdered afterwards. German soldiers used to brand the bodies of captured partisan women – and other women as well – with the words "Whore for Hitler's troops" and rape them.
>Following their capture some German soldiers vividly bragged about committing rape and rape-homicide.
>In the Soviet Union alone an estimates regarding the rape of Soviet women by the Wehrmacht range up to 10,000,000 incidents, with between 750,000 and 1,000,000 children being born as a result.
>A 1942 Wehrmacht document suggested that the Nazi leadership considered implementing a special policy for the eastern front through which the estimated 750,000 babies born through sexual contact between German soldiers and Russian women (an estimate deemed very conservative), could be identified and claimed to be racially German. (It was suggested that the middle names Friedrich or Luise be added to the birth certificates of male and female babies.) Although the plan was not implemented, such documents suggest that the births that resulted from rapes and other forms of sexual contact were deemed beneficial, increasing the "Aryan" race rather than as adding to the inferior Slavic race. The underlying ideology suggests that German rape and other forms of sexual contact may need to be seen as conforming to a larger military strategy of racial and territorial dominance.
Hol up. Is all of this actually true? If yes, how the fuck do Germans get to get away with whining about Soviets raping German Women at the end of the War.
>>673351
>Germans being whiners
What a surprise.
>>673351
>Soviet Union
Dropped.
>>673351
In France, German troops were forbidden to rape or even have consensual sex with non-prostitute French women
German authorities created brothels to satisfy the needs of soldiers so they wouldnt need to rape/seek sex with regular women
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_military_brothels_in_World_War_II#German_brothels_in_occupied_France
Hello /his/
I was wondering if someone can recommend me a comprehensive book abut Scotland's history? Preferably from the 13th century onwards. I am mostly interested in the documentation of the normandization/englification of Scottish royalty and subsequently the shift from Gaelic being the majority spoken language of the people to English. Also the aspect of how this shift was being perceived by most of the intellectual class in later centuries.
If someone could help me with some authors that'd be swell!
bump
anyone?
ANYONE
What made the USA so religious?
Wasn't it basically founded by religious loons who thought Europe was 2sinful4them?
Puritans and the Geneva Bible.
>>672746
Also think about the psychological effects of having to build your own shitty church and run it while living on the plains virtually alone and surrounded by savages
Is there such a thing as Jewish theology?
From my understanding Jewish scripture is either pure ethics/jurisprudence (in the wide sense of the term), or some form of mysticism that's not logically falsifiable; and while Maimonides has some dialectical elements he's not that consistent, and he's not a representative of the Rabbinical tradition as a whole.
So in general, are there 'canonical' ideas about the nature of God, the universe, the human being, etc. in Jewish scripture?
All religions are ideology and philosophy. Some are more tangible and direct than others.
>>672444
That wasn't the question OP asked. Are you Jewish?
>>672427
Kabbalah.
I am not Jewish or religious person. But to read Old Testament in any other language than Hebrew is to miss out 90% of the metaphysics and sublime meanings one verse may have.
There are four levels of interpretation in Kabbalistic tradition.
Peshat (Hebrew: פשט lit. "simple"): the direct interpretations of meaning.
Remez (Hebrew: רמז lit. "hint[s]"): the allegoric meanings (through allusion).
Derash (Hebrew: דרש from Heb. darash: "inquire" or "seek"): midrashic (Rabbinic) meanings, often with imaginative comparisons with similar words or verses.
Sod (Hebrew: סוד lit. "secret" or "mystery"): the inner, esoteric (metaphysical) meanings, expressed in kabbalah.
Kabbalah is considered by its followers as a necessary part of the study of Torah – the study of Torah (the Tanakh and Rabbinic literature) being an inherent duty of any observant Jews.
Even simple verses like opening of the Bible in plain English:
>"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
In the original Hebrew language and in Kabbalistic analysis you find multiple levels of interpretation, symbolism and meaning for this verse. English version can never portray such things without the original text and interpretation.
Does /his/ speak Latin?
I've always wanted to learn, but is it worth learning to speak a dead language? How many hours of study am I looking at to be able to speak it half decently?
>speak Latin
Legere et scribere possumus, hoc satis esse credo.
>>671967
But I can basically already do that
I want to be able to speak it and think it
>>672058
Nobody knows the pronunciation. Translating Latin is more realistic: I learned it in four years at school.
>2016
>not going beyond good and evil
>not looking at why people believe what they believe rather than the appeal of the idea
>not destroying old idols
>not philosophizing with a hammer
>not accepting God's dead
>not reminding 4chan Christposters that they only see God's shadow, and we're in the thousands year long process of casting light on it
>not being thrilled at the thought of sailing open seas
>not being this fucking based
God is dead fellas.
Zoroaster > Jesus
Fakers can't even comprehend the original
>christfag threads blow up
>nietzsche threads get ignored
typical echo chamber autists
>>672599
Nietzsche has a horrible aftertaste.
"God is not real and moral nihilism is acceptable"
Can I get an explanation on who built the pyramids? Anywhere I look is clickbait conspiracy theories
>>671519
I know it sounds crazy but I think they're the work of Egyptians.
Egyptian labourers.
>>671519
They were grain silos built by the egyptians
Was Stalingrad the closest thing to hell on earth humanity has experienced?
I'd rather be there than Leningrad.
>>671194
That would probably be the Thirty Years War in general.
Siege of Leningrad was pretty shit because of the starvation. Also the first day of Iwo Jima was probably pretty fucking crazy because of how small of an island it was and the frequency of casualties over a short period of time
Are there many historical examples of women serving in ground combat roles?
Soviet women serving as snipers is common knowledge, though how much of it is propaganda?
>>670959
Most PLAF local forces were women.
It was more common than normal
When you are being invaded, and the rifle allows you to kill a man from 100 yards away, and you are on your home turf, then women are useful soldiers. Soviet women did not join the rank and file on the march to Berlin, but did engage with the enemy during the blitz.
Nachthexen
Is Islam incompatible with western liberal democracy?
What can be done, if anything to reform Islam and open it up to liberty and representative government?
No.
But you can always try to twist something so it can fit in something else.
Nukes.
>>670884
Western liberal democracy isn't even compatible with itself, and the west will slowly, but surely, be taken over by foreigners who will turn it into the same shitholes they came from.
What insights do you have on the history of Israel and of the Jewish people?
What biblical or religious significance does it have?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=typ2pl2L47k
Btw I'm not from /pol/, I promise
What we call "Jews" are actually Khazars who migrated to Eastern Europe.
The true descendents of the Israelites reside in North Africa.
former idf soldier here, ama
>>670321
The Jews who are descended from the Khazars are also all descended from the people who once lived in what is now Israel.
The ones you speak of in North Africa follow the religion of the people of Judea before the diaspora, while most modern Jews follow the Rabbinical tradition, which started a few hundred years after the diaspora, so it's a little younger than Christianity.
>Your country
>A small snippet (tale, poem, song etc.) of your country's mythology
I'll start:
>Ireland
>The Salmon of Knowledge
>According to the story, an ordinary salmon ate nine hazelnuts that fell into the Well of Wisdom from nine hazel trees that surrounded the well. By this act, the salmon gained all the world's knowledge. The first person to eat of its flesh would in turn gain this knowledge.
The rest of the story is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_of_Knowledge
>>670247
I'll let another country post first but for anyone interested in Irish mythology I'll just let you know
Fiannaíocht>all other cycles
>>670247
>America
>John Henry
Black guy is really good at swinging a hammer. He does it so much that he dies from overexertion.
>Johnny Appleseed
There's a guy who plants apple trees all over the fucking place. He literally cannot stop planting apple trees.
>Paul Bunyan
Guy in Minnesota is really tall and has a pet blue cow. Eats a lot of pancakes.
>>670247
>USA
>Zimmerman Letter
>D-Day was the deciding factor of WW2
>Iraq War was justified
>Gadaffi was a dictator
Not sure if I should go to /biz/ instead but here I am.
What kind of jobs are available for people who studied (military) history?
>>670009
Your abilities individually will count for more than that degree.
McDonalds
Court Jester
Just saw a clip from Pear Harbor. I knew this film was bad, but holy shit Batman, this scene was stupid. Roosevelt is talking with his advisors and one
of them says that the Japanese can invade as far as Chicago if we lose the Pacific fleet. No way anyone actually said that right? That would mean:
>The Japanese manage to land millions of troops on the west coast
>Defeat our military in California
>March 2000 miles over deserts, mountains and plains
>Maintaining Air superiority this whole time
>Crossing hundreds of rivers, some incredibly wide
>The main industry is in the east, so we still would be producing plenty of weapons
>They would have to stop new ships from attacking from the Panama Canal
>Dealing with our army fighting on home soil as well as a well armed civilian population
Did anyone seriously think this might be possible? What other stupid mistakes do big budget movies make that are so obvious you cringe?
I saw a trailer for that new movie Risen a day or two ago. I was actually kind of interested at first, because it seemed like a novel idea.
Then I watched the trailer where Joseph Fienne's main character Tribune guy does a voiceover;
>I have served the Roman Empire
>I have fought wars against those that did not believe in our gods
Dropped.
>>669848
Wait, he called it the roman empire at 33 CE? I'd dropped the movie aswell.
Literally any WW2 documentary
>"the Polish airforce was effectively eliminated in the first day of the war"
>tfw the Poles had aces flying during the second and third weeks of the war
>"by the time England and France declared war on September 3rd, it was already too late for Poland"
>no mentions about heroic Polish last stands like Wizna, Hel Peninsula, and Danzig
>Never mention Lithuania or the Baltic Campaign
>Never mention Polish/Lithuanian/Latvian/Estonia/Yugo Partisans, swear that the French partisans actually did anything on the scale of aforementioned movements
Dont even get me started on the French Campaign in 1940
>"durr france had no tanks lol blitzkrieg"
So...why Rome converted to Christianity?
A vision in the sky
I always like to imagine how fucking surprised the soldiers who nailed Jesus to the cross would be to see the entire Roman Empire worshipping this dude 400 years later.
It was gaining popularity fast, their persecution gained even more sympathizers, and Constantine was a cuck.
