#2 world war ii

[whereserpentswalk]

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

#196 #my thougts #leftist #leftism #jewish #jumblr #actually mentally ill #mental illness #neurodivergent #actually neurodivergent #world war 2 #world war ii #history #queer #gay #queer history #pagan #athiest #athiesm #disability rights #communist #communism #socialist #socialism #anti conservative #anti christianity #christanity #christianity #mad pride #madpunk

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

#kai rambles #so like #i enjoy ships and learning about them and looking at them but like #i dont really care for warships #i dont hate them viscerally like i do cruise ships but i never really care for them #apart from the ones that were just like either ridiculously designed like the hms captain or the vasa or the novgorod #or the ones where just insane shit happened like with the william d porter #like this isnt even the extent of the porters unfortunate incidents like shr was sank by a kamikaze attack that MISSED #but somehow ended up below the ship and exploded and just like yeeted the porter out of the water #william d porter #uss william d porter #ww2 #world war 2 #world war ii #warships #again warships are really not my thing but god some of them are so fucking funny #uss iowa #fdr #franklin d. roosevelt #this suddenly got so many notes in like less than 24 hours what the fuck #shipposting

[histcryprincess]

French girls wearing their German boyfriends uniforms during World War 2. The photo on the right was found on a German POW.

#historical photos #history #historical #ww2 #world war 2 #world war ii #second world war #ww2 photos #wwii #wwii photos #ww2 history #wwii history #1940s #1940s women #1940s photos #ww2 women

[humanoidhistory]

Submarine bunker at Charente-Maritime, France.

#france #world war ii #bunker #submarine #navy #war #world war 2 #world war two #second world war #architecture #brutalism

[lonestarflight]

Two workers attaching a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp onto a F4U Corsair at the Chance-Vought factory in Stratford, Connecticut.

Date: March 1943

NARA: 179036630

#Vought F4U Corsair #Vought F4U #F4U Corsair #F4U #Corsair #Fighter #Aircraft #Airplane #United States Navy #U.S. Navy #US Navy #USN #Navy #World War II #World War 2 #WWII #WW2 #WWII History #History #Military History #Chance-Vought Factory #Factory #Stratford #Connecticut #March #1943 #color photo #my post

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I found one of the phones designed by post World War 2 German scientists that was made to talk to the dead. I had a really bad feeling, I wouldn't like what would happen after if I answered the ringing.

#dream #almost nightmare #world war 2 #world war ii #ww2 #wwii #german #violence tw #war tw #science #scientist #death tw

[dontirrigateme]

US soldiers from the 2nd armored division find a piano in the street after arriving in Normandy on 10 August 1944.

Image from Wikipedia

#ww2 #world war 2 #wwii #world war ii #2nd armored division #normandy #france

[theygender]

TLT fans: did you guys know about the real Wake? I hadn't heard about her until we covered World War II in my world civ class this semester

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake (1912-2011) was a covert operative who was at the top of the Nazi's most wanted list in WW2, nicknamed "The White Mouse" for her ability to repeatedly evade capture. She was born in New Zealand with Māori heritage, grew up in Australia, and joined the Resistance after traveling to Europe and witnessing the harsh treatment of Jews in Vienna by the Nazis

Wake worked in the Pat O'Leary Line escape network until her Resistance organization was compromised by the Germans in 1942. After that she fled on foot across the Pyrenees—with several close calls that she escaped by flirting with German soldiers—and made her way to England to join the Special Operations Executive. She was part of a three person team codenamed "Freelance" which parachuted into occupied France. During this operation she got stuck in a tree after her parachute became tangled in its branches. The local Resistance leader who found her reportedly said “I hope that all the trees in France bear such beautiful fruit this year" to which she replied "Cut out that French bullshit and get me out of this tree"

While working in the Freelance operation Wake once biked 500 km (310 mi) without stopping in the span of 72 hours across Nazi territory to retrieve a new radio and codes after her team's were destroyed in a Gestapo raid. Without this feat, Freelance would not have been able to communicate with London and there would have been no more supply drops to support their Resistance organization. During the war she was also part of a raid which destroyed the Gestapo headquarters in Montluçon, in which she reportedly killed a Nazi sentry with her bare hands to prevent him from raising an alarm

Wake's fellow operatives described her as "a real Australian bombshell. Tremendous vitality, flashing eyes. Everything she did, she did well. She was an excellent shot, excelled at fieldcraft and put the men to shame by her cheerful spirit and strength of character." "She is the most feminine woman I know until the fighting starts. Then she is like five men." "We both came to the conclusion that she was 10 times the man I would ever be"

By the time of her death in 2011, Wake had been awarded the George Medal by Britain; the Medal of Freedom by the United States; the Médaille de la Résistance, the Croix de Guerre (x3), and the Légion d’Honneur by France; and the Badge in Gold by New Zealand. Due to a complicated relationship with Australia, she originally refused to accept any awards from the Australian government, saying that they could "stick their medals where the monkey stuck his nuts." In 2004, however, she accepted the honor of Companion of the Order of Australia as well

#the locked tomb #commander wake #awake remembrance of these valiant dead kia hua ko te pai snap back to reality oops there goes gravity #harrow the ninth #tamsyn muir #world war ii #world war 2 #nancy wake #nancy grace augusta wake #rambling #idk what exactly to do with this information but i thought it was really cool #and let me tell you. the fact that commander wake seems to be based on a key resistance op in WW2 at the top of the nazis most wanted list #does NOT make john and his empire look good. in case we needed anymore hints #ww2 tw #nazis tw #herstory #nona the ninth #greatest hits

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

“True Towel Tales” advertisement series — Based on real servicemen stories during World War II.

By Stevan Dohanos, Fred Ludekens & James Bingham, Cannon Mills Company, 1943-44.

#stevan dohanos #fred ludekens #james bingham #vintage #vintage men #art #men in art #male art #homoerotic #ad #vintage ad #advertising #vintage ads #advertisement #military #world war 2 #world war ii #wwii #ww2 #1940s

[queerism1969]

#propaganda #genocide #hate crimes #germany #france #austria #europe #poland #netherlands #world war ii #world war 3 #world war 2 #military history #world war 1 #wwii #first world war #world war one #education #research #students #learning #teaching #teachers

[dronescapesvideos]

PBY Catalina Flying Boat in the icy waters of Kodiak Bay, Alaska, during World War II. The crew are wearing wader suits made of waterproofed canvas with attached boots and gloves.

➤➤ PBY VIDEO: https://youtu.be/2qlMbZ70rqc

➤➤ HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/hwndn4ta

#youtube #aircraft #airplane #aviation #dronescapes #military #ww2 #wwii #documentary #aviation history #pby catalina #catalina #kodiak #alaska #world war 2 #world war ii

[beautifulwarbirds]

JU 87 Stuka

#world war 2 #world war ii #wwii #ww2 #aviation #warbird #history #bomber #dive bomber #stuka #ju 87 #art #aviation art

[lilithism1848]

#hitler #anti capitalism #leftism #communism #socialism #anarchy #vladimir putin #far right #liberalism #nazi #free speech #disinformation #extremism #hypocrisy #second world war #world war 2 #world war ii #world war 1 #world war two #world war one

[omgthatdress]

During World War II, entertainment was a crucial part of maintaining troop morale. Because of the difficulties in getting professional entertainers to the front lines, it was usually up to the soldiers themselves to put on shows. Because of the lack of women, female roles had to be played by men.

Drag was immensely popular on all sides of the war, even in the German army.

(German soldiers in drag)

(A British Army drag show is interrupted by an attack, soldiers respond in drag)

One of the most popular "soldier shows" was This is The Army, a musical by Irving Berlin. A movie version with multiple performances by soldiers in drag was made in 1943. It starred Ronald Reagan.

#1940s #ww2 #drag #history of drag #gay #queer #lgbt #gay history #queer history #lgbt history #Ronald Reagan #World War II #World War 2 #WWII #Youtube

[humanoidhistory]

Monument dedicated to Serb and Albanian partisans, Mitrovica, Kosovo, 1973, designed by Bogdan Bogdanović. Photo by Ricardo Conte.

(Design Milk)

#kosovo #sculpture #architecture #military history #wwii #ww2 #world war ii #world war 2 #design #monument #serbia #albania #yugoslavia

[lonestarflight]

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress "Big Yank" (44-6405) starting up her engines. This Fortress is credited with 3 Me 262 kills and one probable on March 24, 1945.

NARA: 195654

source

#Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress #B-17 #B-17G #bomber #USAF #world war 2 #world war ii #WWII #WW2 #History #March #1945 #my post