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What's your opinion on Shirer's Rise and Fall? I know it's been criticized for not being an academic work, but do you have any or know of any specific criticisms? Anything Shirer got totally wrong?
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Apr 2, 2013 01:03
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If the July 20 plot succeeded, what did the conspirators plan to do with the country? I know they had a government ready to take over once the coup was complete, but what were their intentions beyond killing Hitler?
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Apr 4, 2013 05:15
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Perhaps this is veering too far into military history and doctrine, but what was training like for a German soldier? In the US, we frequently get glimpses into what training was like through media like Band of Brothers, but you never really see what it's like for the other side.
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Apr 14, 2013 05:06
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Peenigrippe posted:It must have been impossible for Germany to plant any fifth columnists in the Baltic States and Ukraine, in spite of the sympathy they kind of received in those regions. If Hitler would have managed that, he could have bided his time with Russia and focused on Britain. Then at some point an internally weakened Ukraine calls for Hitler to intervene, like in Czechoslovakia. Germans roll right in, receiving a full welcome.
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May 6, 2013 00:02
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Why did Hitler get off so easily after the Beer Hall Putsch?
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Jul 5, 2013 04:24
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What was the relationship between the Nazi party and the Wehrmacht like? Were members of the Wehrmacht expected to join the party?
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Sep 13, 2014 03:57
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Cyrano4747 posted:Meanwhile a country like the US was considered a loving disaster zone. The idea of a cultural/ethnic melting pot of a nation was utterly abhorrent to this way of thinking, and they held up the Roman Empire specifically as an example of a once great nation that got really hosed up by immigration and generally allowing non-Roman peoples inside it. This strikes me as rather funny since, you know, the Germans migrated into the Roman Empire.
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Dec 10, 2014 01:04
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Cyrano4747 posted:Germanic tribes. Not the same thing. Saying Germans migrated into the Roman Empire would be like saying that Germans and Indians are the same because "Aryans" Oh of course, there's lots of steps between the tribes of late antiquity and Germany of the modern era. Still, it comes off as so silly to me. "Those filthy migrants brought down the Roman Empire... Pay no attention to their Central European origins!!"
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Dec 10, 2014 05:18
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How did the stab in the back legend take hold? My (limited) understanding is that Germany was decisively defeated in northern France and Belgium in the summer and fall of 1918. How did right wing Germans spin that into the die Dolchstoßlegende in the twenties?
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Dec 16, 2014 03:26
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