Did you Know?
- Thread starter wildbillhdmax01
- Start date
-
We have updated our Community Code of Conduct. Please read through the new rules for the forum that are an integral part of Paradox Interactive’s User Agreement.
- Status
Since the 80's, when he got command ranks and other high positions.
Did you know that:
Syphilis was a major issue in Occupied France, so Hitler sent blow up dolls to have sex with, the solders did not take this up very well.
Source : [video=youtube;j9CjcQSbVb4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9CjcQSbVb4[/video]
Other facts in the video too.
Syphilis was a major issue in Occupied France, so Hitler sent blow up dolls to have sex with, the solders did not take this up very well.
Source : [video=youtube;j9CjcQSbVb4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9CjcQSbVb4[/video]
Other facts in the video too.
General Daniel "Chapie" James USAF; born 1920 died 1978 -- spent WWII training the Tuskeegee Airmen "pilots"to fly (he graduated from Tuskeegee U); combat in Korean War.
While far from ideal US race relations and/or anti immigrant biases (the Irish, the Poles, the Itais, the "yellow" Asians {Chineses, Japanese, Fillipino}) were never as bad as some in this forum seem to wish them to be. While on an individual basis, the victims of lynch mobs are just as dead as those who went into death camps the scale of the death camps and the extermination campaign is markedly different as were the pogroms, religious persecutions, ethnic cleansing exercises and mass deportations that many European countries can count as part of their history.
that three jews in finnish army (known to be jews to germans) were offered iron cross? all three turned it down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeEQD1mv0n0
It's still bloody awful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1BkB2bIxPo This part has spoilers but shows some more of its awfulness.
Last edited:
Did you Know that in june 1940 the 75th NZ Squadron was prevented from taking off from their airbase in the south of france, to bomb Italy. The French military blocked the airfield with a convoy of vehicles to prevent takeoff. Apparently they were worried that the Italians might bomb them back.
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/19463/75-nz-squadron-based-france
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/19463/75-nz-squadron-based-france
Thats interesting, because in the airborne assault of Sicily (and sardinia/corsica), 4 out of every 5 paratroopers and commandoes was British (roughly).
Although the 82nd and 101st were there too, there were far more British Commandoes.
Funnily enough, fighting alongside and learning from the British is pretty much the main reason the US airborne became so elite. They learn't from the best.
Did you know the allies built a 22 ton bomb that was roughly the same size as a German Panther tank? Called the Earthquake bomb. largest non-nuclear bomb ever made.
Could crush reinforced concrete submarine pens like they were made of paper.
IIRC experiments showed that a Spitfire wing had a higher Critical Mach Number than that of a 262...
To be fair to Churchill, he was extremely paranoid about Britain starving to death and so he wanted as many transports as possible servicing Britain. Even though, as Max Hastings states in one of his books, Britain was actually never really under threat of running short on, well, anything really. It had the largest merchant marine on the Planet (making up at least 50% of the global Merchant marine (not including the semi-independent merchant marines of Canada, Australia, new Zealand, India etc) and from the middle of the war onwards, more ships were been built than were been sunk (and the only ones getting sunk were the ones who ventured out on their own, as the U-Boats were actually scared to death of the Royal Navy).
Also, the problem was exacerbated in Bengal due to the fact that Hindu and Sikh states in India that did have surplus food preferred to send that food to other Hindu and Sikh states that needed it instead of to the (mostly muslim) Bengal state.
I think that is what Churchill was referring to. There was, inf act, enough food to feed every famine-afflicted India, but internal Indian politics prevented proper distribution of the food. Add in the effects of the War and the Japs knocking on the door in the East and things get complicated.
But this all brings me to the other 'Did you know?'.
Did you know that the German U-boat branch of the Kreigsmarine had the highest death rate in the war? If you were a German submariner, you have a four out of five (80%) chance of dying?
Yes, they were volunteers.
So many volunteered, in fact, the British ran out of ammo, guns, uniforms and other equipment as they thought the Indians would not want to support Britain or fight (due to Gandhi's movement).
As it turns out, most indians didnt care and volunteered anyway.
It had the interesting side effect of massively boosting Indian industry as all the shortages had to be filled by the Indians building their own instead of been supplied by Britain.
It would be more accurate if you said 'Ended over 1000 years of civil and religious war, constant famine and other terrors and laid the foundations for a (mostly) united nation with a common language, laws etc'.
British rule wasn't perfect, no, but it was far better than what came before.
No, it was due to bad weather, the El Nino/La Nina effects and the fact that Burma had fallen to the Japs (Burma at the time was the source of at least 14% of India's food).
Source?
Source?
Care to provide a source? I'm not sure baout the others, but i can tell you that there was very little discrimination against Indians in India by the British.
Hell, most of the Indian administration was filled by Indians. The British were by far the minority. Essentially, the Indians did in fact rule themselves, with the except of a handful of key points.
Last edited:
How on earth did they keep churning out new U-boats then? Did the Kriegsmarine end up having problems training skilled sailors to man and captain their subs, the same way Axis airforces ran out of good pilots?
Also, every soldier technically has a 100% chance of dying...
Max Hastings really rips into the German U-Boats.
Apparently, they were nowhere near as potent as is commonly made out. Their effectiveness can be quite easily brought into question. I would recommend reading Max Hastings All Hell Let Loose: The World At War, 1939–1945. And, in fact, everything by him.
The Germans did have very good training programs, but quality most likely did suffer.
Although many still volunteered, it was seen as a suicide position. Many submarines rarely went on more than a handful of missions before been sunk.
According to Max Hastings, there was no more than 60 German subs in operation at any one time. Which, in the grand scale of things, is not a lot.
Hell, i think (going from memory) the British had more Submarines than that, as did the US and Japan.
Bear in mind that U-boat losses weren't constant. From 1943 onwards, Allied use of radar, long-range aircraft and ULTRA code-breaking meant that being U-boat crew suddenly became far more dangerous than it had been before.
Source for Indians joining British army is not the theory you stated of Indians not caring, as for my sources, i am born and bought here and i have friends and relatives living all over this country, i am telling you things directly from the horse's mouth and not some 'book' written without taking local knowledge into consideration. People who actually joined the army (their descendants infact) are my source and 'vernacular' books (no internet links available, but well documented among 'martial races' of India).
Very little dsicrimination?? Source for that? Please read and then respond to such things, 'Koch' & 'Kube' also governed the 'eastern territories' with the help of locals.
Did you know that while they were moving to occupy Austria in 1938, some 80% of German tanks broke down?
No, the Germans operated nearly 1000 subs while the Americans operated under 300. The American subs were much more effective on a ship by ship basis though, sinking about half as many tons as the German subs did despite their inferior numbers and suffering "only" a 20% loss rate.
The British also ran out of guns, uniforms and ammo because pre war policy had been to prevent India from being able to produce most of these things for themselves.
That was awfully nice of the British considering that a lot of the Quit India movement was about how Britain had systematically repressed industry in India in order to make it a suitable market for British manufactured goods. British doesn't get credit for bashing in India's head with a hammer just because it felt good when they stopped.
Oh yes, the "colonialism is justified on the grounds of helping those poor benighted brown peoples" argument. India doesn't have a common language besides English and it actually doesn't make sense as a single country anyway
.
They were united in their dislike of the British, but once the British left, Indian unity has had trouble finding a basis. The British also didn't end civil and religious war, they just did their best to see that the result of each conflict would redound to the benefit of the British. The British also often encouraged religious tensions as a way of defusing opposition to British rule. The partition of Bengal was a British idea, supposedly for administrative reasons, but the result was the fragmentation of the previously united Bengali independence movement into separate Hindu and Muslim camps.
It started with bad weather, but that wasn't what led to famine. The statistics were bad, the government destroyed anything that the Japanese might capture including food, and Churchill refused to release British shipping to help in late 1943, (when that graph says that u-boats were getting sunk in record numbers.) What the Bengal famine said to India was that the 'benefits' of British rule were illusory.
Really? You ask for a source on his info and then assert that the Brits didn't discriminate based on what exactly? They certainly put all Indians into racial categories. Sikhs and Nepali's were "martial races" while others fell in other boxes.
That guy totally sees Indians as his equals.
Yes, except they were made to be dependent on a global empire which they didn't run. British policy had always been to make India dependent on the British global empire and its shipping. The Brits were shipping food to Greece which is a foreign country instead of those who were supposedly British subjects in Bengal.
Did you know? There are more wild theories about Hitler and Third Reich thana anything else, and everything you see on internet should NOT be believed.
Bear in mind that U-boat losses weren't constant. From 1943 onwards, Allied use of radar, long-range aircraft and ULTRA code-breaking meant that being U-boat crew suddenly became far more dangerous than it had been before.
BTW, how does that chart compare to number of active U-boats? They didn't really get construction priority until '42 (they take around 6 months to build) and more 'boats is more targets. It probably did get relatively more dangerous as more anti-u-boat technologies came into play, but perhaps not to the extent shown here.
- Status