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Remembrance Garden on Princes Street, Edinburgh this afternoon.
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Doctor Who + World War Posters
Doctor Who Magazine #320 by Daryl Joyce
The Eleventh Doctor #3.7 by Simon Myers
The Ninth Doctor #1 Pop Culture Paradise by Mariano Laclaustra
#doctor who#11th doctor#eleventh doctor#9th doctor#ninth doctor#brigadier lethbridge stewart#world war i#world war ii#uncle sam#world wars#wwi#wwii#doctor who plus
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#historical memes#history#history memes#meme#memes#historical#world war#world wars#world war 2#world war ii#ww2 history#ww2#ww2 memes#wwii era#wwii#tanks#tank kid
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#khazarian mafia#fight for justice#standup#speak up#truth#crimes against humanity#please share#wwg1wga#politics#world wars#destruction#these people are evil
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If the WW2 Crew were in WW1
Nancy: We've come a long long way boys! Now it's time for 'Merica to show its teeth! AFFIX BAYONETS! CHARGE!!!!
Daniels: *charges forward but trips*
Zussman: *catches Daniels*
Pierson: COME ON BOYS! GO GO GO!
Turner: Keep charging! We're almost there!
Stiles: *out of breath* I'm going to die...
Aiello: *pushing Stiles and Daniels forward with Zussman*
#source: battlefield 1#cod incorrect quotes#cod ww2#oc nancy turner#nancy turner#ww2 crew#call of duty#world wars#cod joseph turner#william pierson#robert zussman#frank aiello#drew stiles#ronald red daniels
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The Scouring of the Shire and WWI vs. WWII
I need to say something about the Lord of the Rings movies that has always bothered me: I am so sad that they left out the Scouring of the Shire.
I know it was probably a time issue (I wish they had done Return of the King as two movies instead of The Hobbit somehow as three...) and I know RoTK already has like two false endings, which is hard for an audience but I think the destruction of the shire is important to the argument by Tolkien that war is terrible. Also a possible analoge of the experience of British soldiers in WWs I and II.
In WWI, the English would have come home to a country untouched by war, as the Shire was untouched by most events in Middle Earth’s past. But in WWII, London was nearly burned and bombed to the ground, children had been sent away and needed to be reclaimed from places as far as Canada, and many civilians had been killed. Coming home must have been a shock, even if they knew on some level that bombing had happened in the UK. It would have been just like the four hobbits returning to the Shire, they are exhausted, they want to go home, but home as they remember it isn’t there. They have to keep fighting and they have to rebuild.
But that also adds a different layer to the homecoming, the Hobbits in the Shire understand, to an extent, what Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin have been through. They all go through it together (though not to the same extent). Them coming home to a Shire untouched by war makes the adventuring Hobbits even more different than their neighbours. I wonder if there was a comfort, a terrible, unfair comfort, of coming home as a soldier in WWII and knowing your family had been through something similar. In the bomb shelter while you were in the trenches, so to speak, and it gave you a similar trauma to work through together. Knowing that you all can make it through together in some way.
Those are my thoughts, I apologize if I’ve used the wrong term for the English, happy to be corrected.
#lord of the rings#the scouring of the shire#tolkien#world wars#return of the king#I feel like there is a big LotR and Jane Austen overlap#they are both great British authors#public domain in a few years baby!
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A buncha little drawings. Bad quality
#art#world wars#ink#don't mind the bird#also those last 2 are my tf2 ocs#tf2 oc#might draw them better someday
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Должен ли я рисовать во время Второй мировой войны? Это застряло у меня в голове на день или два, я действительно не знаю, что делать. Предложите в комментариях. Вы можете ввести: русский, итальянский, румынский и английский
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79 years ago this month, The US "liberated" the Japanese island of Saipan. I'll describe here why, of many territorial changes during WW2, Saipan most certainly was not "liberated"
[Trigger warnings]: Most any triggers associated with war. Including but not limited to: racism, oppression, US internment camps, suicide, infanticide, truly horrific propaganda, explainations (NOT excuses) for the Imperial Japanese Government and Military's actions throughout the war
Note: I've written the intro and this post has already become excessively long. Please realize it will not be exhaustive, complete, or perfect. I intend primarily to call attention to the US' past mistakes, especially that we have buried the history within our own country. If you feel something is important to add, be it context, corrections, or anything else, I invite you to leave it in the notes. My research and understanding of history is constantly evolving, as everyone's should be, and more information should be accepted but also fact checked.
Final (after writing) Note: You will find some trace humor in this post. Not because the situation is humorous or light, but in fact the opposite. Any joke or humorous organization, or what have you, is because I've been writing this for (checking and doing math) around two hours. I've cried, I've been angry, I AM angry, and I needed to make it emotionally readable and writable. (although I did stop myself from an outright joke or two, to not make light of the situation) There are points where I am utterly unserious around this terribly serious event. I do not handle uninterrupted seriousness well--
-- All comments, information, questions (though perhaps you can research for yourself and com back to comment what you learned!) and yes even opinions and thoughts are welcome in the notes. Hate is not. No one who reads this post will interact with any hate in the notes, and everyone who read will block you. This is not strictly a no-trolls-allowed-zone, but it is a no-troll-food zone. You have been warned, and thank you for reading this already too-long Tumblr post
The Battle of Saipan took place in June and July of 1944. The US army, particularly the air force, wanted the island as a staging point to send bombers on raids to Tokyo
With US victory in the battle impending, the Imperial Japanese leaders redoubled propagandizing to the citizens of the island. Most of these citizens were native to the island and didn't consider themselves "racially" (the term used by the Imperial government) Japanese. Many more were Korean slave laborers deported from territory occupied by the IJA.
This propoganda was largely focused on convincing soldiers and civilians not to surrender. They accused American soldiers of using their (IJA) own terror tactics. Mutilation of the dead, enslavement, and worse.
But as I'm wont to do, I'll be going into the details of the good ol' USofA's role in the mass suicides in Saipan. The Japanese Empire bears enormous blame, and I will not trivialize that. The US also bears enormous blame. Since calling out my country is why I'm here, and because the US' role in Imperial Japan's policies and culture is very unknown in the US, that's my focus
In early 1944- hmm nope we gotta go back further.
In February 1942- wait. fuck. a little further.
in July 1941 the USA- okay I promise this is the last one. deep breath, this is quite a time jump.
In 1919 Japan proposed an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles. It was called the Racial Equality Proposal. It did gain widespread support. Several countries, notably the USA, opposed the proposal and prevented its acceptance.
Japan was the only non-western world power allowed to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The Japanese Empire's government sought closer relations with the western powers and integration into their systems.
Details on the proposal, as with most aspects of political history, could be a series of posts in itself. Here are what I consider the most important points and context for my discussion:
Japan was seeking equality among races only of UN-predecesor, the league of Nations, states. This proposal came in 1919, and legal segregation existed in the US until at least 1968. The US, Australia, New Zealand, and Canda had taken or did take steps to inhibit Japanese immigration.
I will note that The Japanese Empire did hold ideas of their own racial superiority over other Asian people and people further abroad as well. Also that one driving force behind the proposal was Japanese suspicion that the predominantly white and western empires of the LoN would use it to exercise control over the Japanese people they themselves considered inferior. The proposal was intended largely to convince opposition within Japan to join the LoN.
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In July 1941, the second great war is raging. France has fallen. Less than a month has passed since Hitler broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and invaded the Soviet union. The US population is reluctant to enter another world war (although FDR, for his myriad upon myriad faults, sees that the world must stand together) but is sending enormous amounts of supplies from military to basic necessities to the Allied Powers. The Germany-Japan-Italy axis won't be broken until 1943
Then the US makes what some call a strategic blunder, and others call FDR's 4D chess mastermind gambit to end the war. The truth is somewhere in between, or perhaps on a different scale altogether.
On July 28, 1941 the US freezes all Japanese assets that they hold and cease all oil shipments to Japan, which is using oil to maintain sea lane supplie routes to Indochina, where the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) is taking yet more territory, as well as powering their war planes and armor.
Japan sees the western colonies in Asia as strategic encroachment, as unjust rule by ideas of white racial superiority, and most importantly, a potential source of resources. Food, oil, rubber, slave laborers, comfort (sex slave) women, and on and on.
I cannot go into the strategic ideas of pearl harbor and the invasion of the Philippines and other European Asian colonies in detail here. The overall IJA strategy is thus: delay American reaction, take territory, make retaking it too expensive for the Allies, negotiate peace.
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February 1942. The US is recovering from the total shock of pearl harbor. Colonies have been lost. Soldiers and non-combatants massacred and worse. The Allies have agreed at 1941's end: none will make seperate peace with any Axis power, and nothing short of unconditional surrender will be accepted.
This month, the US creates internment camps for all Japanese-americans. Citizens, recent immigrants, children, people with power, people with money, people with nothing. Multiracial families are broken apart. The US propagandized these camps as places where Japanese-Americans could live normally without the ability to accrue intelligence or pass it to the Japanese Empire. In reality, they were mass prison camps.
Since then, the US has committed repeated instances of what are now recognized as war crimes against Japan. The US hasn't been much, if any, better to the people in territories it has retaken.
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The Battle of Saipan begins in June 1944. D-Day has passed, Allied Normandy, France beacheads have become captured harbors and inland positions. Attrition among Japan and Germany's forces point to total defeat without a real change, and the Allies greatly outproduce them in war material. The Japanese Empire, civilian government and armed forces alike, is putting its endgame into practice.
The Imperial Japanese Army (and other branches) is in fact independent from the government, although both are subordinated totally to the emperor.
The endgame? Cost the Allies, America in particular, more lives than domestic support can tolerate. Force a negotiated peace. Fight to the last soldier on every island, on every hill, with every bullet, and with bayonets and rocks when the bullets and shells run out
Unfortunately for the Empire, the US is going to take Saipan. The deep problem here? If news of American soldiers bringing gifts and befriending the people of the island, the mandate to give their lives for the emperor might falter. Why fight to the last when the Americans only seem to want the war to end?
So American soldiers must be portrayed as horrifically as American propogandists portray Japanese people. American soldiers must be killers, monsters, rapists, anything that will keep the people of the island from letting themselves be taken.
Eventually no war supplies remain. So the Empire gives the soldiers, civilians, slaves, and other inhabitants their final order. Die in the name of the emperor. So the population of Saipan, soldiers and non-combatants, committed mass suicide.
Here I will leave another trigger warning. If you do not wish to read graphic details, please skip the next paragraph.
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Soldiers on Saipan pulled grenade pins and held them. People threw themselves from cliffs onto the rocks by the thousands. Parents walked into the sea, or jumped with, or threw their children ahead of them. Because surely even this was better than what the American barbarians would do to anyone captured.
This was proven largely false as time went on, but the will of the Japanese people did not break. The will of the Army Staff didn't break after two atomic bombs. They tried to prevent the emperor from surrending, but they failed.
But why did the people of Saipan, not primarily people who called themselves Japanese, believe what they were told? The reasons are many of course, and probably impossible to truly ever completely understand. But I posit the following
America forced Japan's partial surrender with inhuman threats via Admiral Perry's "gunboat diplomacy" in the 1850s, and forced the nation the rejoin the international community that had already treated the nation horrifically.
American policy was that Asian people were inferior to white people.
America invaded other Asian island nations and made them colonies, despite their semi-recent anti-imperialism bent
America participated in bombing to intentionally create murderous firestorms in German and Japanese cities that killed more civilians than both atomic bombs.
America sent pilots on near-suicidal, never before seen raids of Tokyo from carriers at maximum distance to punish Japan for Pearl Harbor. The intention was to burn down the most flammable targets: civilian housing
Germany and the Allies traded war crime for war crime like it was a game of chicken where enemy civilian lives, white civilian lives, superior in importance within America by law, were worth less than nothing.
America classified anyone with a traceable Japanese heritage in the United States as a hostile agent and imprisoned them. Right down to the children and the proud American citizens who happened to be from Japan, or have a great great great grandparent from Japan.
What if you were on Saipan? Would you have said "surely we can trust the Americans? Surely they're here to liberate, to save, to restore peace?"
Would you have said that after a hundred of your friends chose death with and for their families? How about after a thousand?
around 26,000 civilians were on the island before the battle. American soldiers interned around 18,000 after the battle ended.
The US government will still cite justifications for Japanese-american internment, even if it isn't totally unapologetic. Many Americans believe we were the liberators and even the primary or sole heros of the war.
We don't talk about the abhorrent propoganda the US put out about Japanese people, as a race. Terrifyingly similar propoganda to how the Nazis portrayed their enemies, in particular Jewish and Slavic people: untermensch. subhuman.
In the few documentaries I've ever found that mention Saipan, the evil is the Japanese Empire. The government, the armed forces, the emperor.
I've never heard so much as one sentence about the role of the US. the 100 years our country spent boring their racial, their cultural, their religious, their might, their moral superiority into the minds of friend and foe alike.
Not so much as "The people of Saipan, caught between their government's propoganda and American hate"
I've never heard "These people who knew that every Japanese person in America was declared a criminal by default, acted in fear"
I've never heard "The people trapped on the island who wondered if the war crimes that happened on the mainland would happen here. They knew that America answered war crime with war crime, and Japan had committed plenty itself"
So in this anniversary month of the suicides of as many as 8,000 civilians ahead of the approaching American forces, I wanted to share the context that I had to dig for and piece together myself.
I'm aware this is a nigh unreadable post. But if one American skims it and questions what they've been taught, it was worth writing
if one person anywhere reads this and thinks "we should try harder to consider the causes, and effects, and context of our actions" it was worth writing.
I hope you'll take a moment to remember the people who came (and those who come today) to America for a better life only to receive discrimination and then imprisonment. A moment for the people whose government found it all too easy to radicalize them.
And a moment for the eight thousand people who were so afraid of America, and rightfully so, that they chose to die pointlessly lest they become yet more Japanese victims of American hate.
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and of course: this is a Tumblr post. I have not sited my few barely used sources. I have not covered this one event even, in any real depth. And I certainly haven't covered it without bias. I'm not sure anyone who knows the truth could do that.
so do your own research. don't take me at my word, but go look into the context named here and otherwise. Learn about the history my government hides, and the history yours hides too. Because it's there
and know that the words "Never Forget" and "Never Again" about the Holocaust, the war crimes, and the rampant disregard for humanity are just that, words.
You can't "Never Forget" if you don't know what happened. We can't ensure "Never Again" if we don't understand the causes, the mistakes, and how we avoid them.
#world war 2#world wars#saipan#japanese history#American history#world history#long post#long ass fucking post#war crimes#imperialism#anti imperialist
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Stars | Sincerely, Sam
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This is late but in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day just last week, this is a tribute haiku I wrote for my Holocaust Studies course last spring. It is so important we remember those who lost their lives and never forget the tragedy to see that such a thing may never happen again.
#ww2 history#ww2era#world war two#world wars#jewish#jewish history#historical#historical fiction#original writing#writing#writer#writerscommunity#original poem#new poets society#poets on tumblr#female poets#poetry#tumblrtextpost#text post
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Things you can't take on the Eurostar
I am optimistically planning a trip to Paris in the spring, and Eurostar looks to be the cheapest, safest, and most comfortable way for me to travel, and has the benefit of making me feel Dead Posh at the same time.
I decided to check out the list of things you can't take on the Eurostar, expecting the usual list of 'No guns, knives, shampoo, or lipstick' you get for air travel. I won't lie to you, guns and knives are on there, but somehow I'm highly amused that the thing they are mostly concerned about is...
Relics from World War sites. This is legitimately their number one concern. It has it's own huge section before you get to the bullet-point list I was expecting. There are even whopping great pictures:
Eventually, when you scroll enough through the paragraphs on how they know you can buy World War Relics, but they'd really rather you didn't bring them on the train, you get to a bullet-point list that amounts to 'no guns, no explosives, no knives, no World War Relics in any of those categories'* and then:
On the train of the future, the most important things to know you can't have on board are: RELICS and hoverboards.
I just find there to be something very amusing about that.
*they also say you can't bring alcohol, but with a link that says actually you can, just, you know, within reason. Subtext for non-Brits: Crossing the Channel (when unrelated to a World War and the relics thereof) is basically expected to be at least partially about duty free wine.
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On July 14th 1927 The Scottish National War Memorial opened.
The Scottish National War Memorial, located in Edinburgh Castle, commemorates Scottish soldiers and civilians, as well as those serving with Scottish regiments who died in World War I, World War II, and other conflicts.
Robert Lorimer was the chief architect who designed the monument in 1919 and officially opened on this day in 1927.
Leading a team of two hundred artists and craftsmen, Lorimer designed the building in a style inspired by the architecture of Renaissance Scotland to include monuments to all the Services, regiments and corps that served in the First World War, but also to the many non-combatants and uniquely to all Scottish women.
The outstanding stained glass by Douglas Strachan and the bronze frieze by Alice and Morris Meredith Williams, together with the numerous other sculptures do more than gather diverse monuments in one place, however. They also present the wider message of hope that the terrible sacrifice of the war should not have been in vain: that it would secure peace and should prove truly to have been ‘the war to end war.’
The names of Scots killed by enemy action or who died from wounds, diseases or injuries during their service in the British Armed Forces, Merchant Navy, armed forces of the Dominions, women’s services and nursing services, together with all members of Scottish regiments, are listed on the Rolls of Honour held within the Memorial.
Those not serving in Scottish regiments must either have been born in Scotland or have at least one parent born in the country.
#Scotland#scottish#national war memorial#Edinburgh Castle#world wars#wars#conflicts#history#lest we forget
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A URSS ganhou a II Guerra Mundial. Sozinha, foi responsável por combater 1/3 das forças nazistas em campo de batalha. O Reino Unido, a França e os EUA só participaram
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#military#genocide#human sacrifices#worldcontrol#enslavement of humanity#soldiers#world wars#funded wars#world domination#extinction#inoculation#planned pandemics#depopulation agenda#please share#wwg1wga
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World Wars, Summed Up
WWI - aka the Great War, first worldwide scale mass conflict
WWII - introduced the nuke which would kill off lots of innocent people
WWIII - the end of all humanity as we know it
WWIV - the rise of a new species that would replace humans with mini-conflicts and all
WWV - any mass scale conflict(s) that that species may have
WWVI - the eventual extinction of that spices
WWVII - the end of the planet earth
WWVIII - the end of the milky way galaxy
WWIX - the end of the universe as we know it
WWX - start all over again -- here’s to a much more peaceful universe!
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people are calling what happened today in gaza “the flour massacre”
the flour massacre
these people just wanted to get food for their families, something as basic as flour, one of the things that the very core of humanity is built on, and israel used it as a trap to murder them in cold blood
evil is not enough of a word. there is not a word to describe what they are doing to palestine. they are bleeding her out, they are torturing her and crushing her and hoping that nothing is left to remember her by when they are done. how can anyone stand and watch what is being done with indifference? how can you watch this level of human suffering, this crime against life and feel nothing, do nothing
#i cant stop crying#the entire world is watching as they die#palestine#free palestine#gaza#free gaza#war on gaza#ceasefire now#israel#from the river to the sea palestine will be free
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