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There is only one surviving pilot who participated in the Battle of Britain left.
— Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア) (@OliverJia1014) October 10, 2024
John Hemingway turned 105 in July and was shot down four times during WWII.
His generation will fade into history soon. Let us remember all the wisdom they can impart.https://t.co/bMTUfx14BP pic.twitter.com/TpmAgAsisi
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There are 245,000 holocaust survivors still alive today.
There is not a single veteran of the Great War ( WW1 ) left alive anymore.
The youngest holocaust survivor is 79 years old now. She was born in the concentration camp.
Assuming the maximum age she can survive is till 120 years, we still have 41 years of having to take the holocaust seriously as some horrible current event left.
Have fun explaining to Alpha generation's children why making fun of a war that happened 120 years ago is a punishable offense in a free and fair democracy.
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hopefully climate change makes the middle east unlivable by then
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They in turn will make Europe unlivable. Fun times ahead.
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gah, sometimes i regret buying a tesla.
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rough fricking start god darn
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Beat the spawn campers gg ez no re.
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How the frick does that even happen? Even if you could give birth in the camp (seems tough as heck), would the Germans really let you skip out on work to watch your baby?
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Imagine having to report to your boss that your concentration camp is somehow increasing the jewish population.
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Aw darn that's a good post
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It probably wasn't one of the actual extermination camps, because women were just herded off the trains and directly to the extermination chambers. Only fit men were allowed to live for a few weeks (while being forced to work, typically stuff like removing corpses from aforementioned chambers) before being killed off themselves.
Even if her mom wasn't allowed time off to care for her baby (likely), it's probable that others at the camp would chip in to help. I mean think about it, they live in misery with death all around them, surely they'd pitch in to take care of a newborn?
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A 79 year old Holocaust survivor would have been born in 1945 or maybe late 1944.
The gassings at Auschwitz stopped around November 1944 and the final months it was mostly "death marches" with jews being forced to march in the snow from the bigger camps into smaller camps in Germany. It's not as if the baby was born in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 (just before mass deportations)
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WW2 is much better documented than any war before it. We don't have a footage of, say, Napoleonic wars.
I think that until WW3 happens, WW2 will more or less continue to maintain its importance.
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Wrong
!kino
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I disagree. Irrespective of how good a footage is, it's just not possible to care for a conflict at the same level over time. Ukraine - Russia war has far more footage with more relatable technologies and by the end of the day that's what's going to count. Whether the people you are watching on screen look and act like you or not.
WW1 has already lost relevance.
All WW2 has to go on are Call of Duty games and even the COD franchise has been unwilling to return to WW2 since 2017. It really is over for that time period.
The best WW2 movie released till date is Schildlers List and even that is 31 years old now.
You can only milk a conflict for so long before people stop caring.
There were entire crusades and centuries of ongoing wars between the Christians and the Muslims and nobody really cares enough about them anymore because enough time passed.
The current generation doesn't hesitate to make 9/11 jokes anymore.
CoD is now willing to release games set during the Iraq war because they don't consider it insensitive right now.
Only the German's are still hung up on WW2 because they are the ones who committed the atrocities and then lost and felt bad about it.
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!historychads thoughts?
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Lol
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for yankeeland (and thus "global" culture at large) ww2 is mostly relevant since its the last war lefties allow them to be proud about. So it will continue to be relevant until commies acknowledge Kim/Minh/Saddam were mass murdering monsters that needed to be stopped (lol)
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I think he has a point that people will lose their emotional connection to the war as it fades into history. We will reach a time (and we're kinda already there) where little kids in elementary school will start to
as to why they get in trouble with stodgy spinster browbeaters for making dank memes about a war fought almost a century ago
But WWII will always have a unique place in armchair academia. The scale of the conflict is mind boggling. Like, you can't read about Eastern Front operations in WWII and then look at modern Russia's "progress" trying to take territory they used to own outright and not
People are still fascinated by the Crusades after all.
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until there's another near peer conflict
with a clear good vs bad guy that takes place 
on a global scale 
and results in the deaths of hundreds of millions I doubt 
it will lose relevance.
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death to bongs
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Too many words
to read about cod
Didn't read
Palestinian lives matter
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I agree with everything else, but there were people online making 9/11 jokes before the second plane hit.
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Never forget
forget
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I meant the general public.
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Posts like this is why I do Heroine.
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WW2 will continue to maintain its importance until it stops being the founding myth of the global hegemony.
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We are getting closer and closer to having the critical mass of wingcucks that think dismantling the various WW2 national myths will help their cause and only their cause. That recent Churchill thing with Tucker Carlson was the first time I've seen rightoid "Britain was the bad guys in WW2" have any mainstream traction and leftoids have been screeching about it for decades. Once the line is crossed in a country WW2 as the Manichean creation myth is gone and wingcuckery will dominate again, it's why eastern and southern euros can have insane politics.
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Generational trauma of the Holocaust will be eternal. I, for one, am suffering from fourth-generational Holocaust trauma. The Holocaust is a scar on our history that will never heal. Hence why we must teach all future generations about this heinous event.
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Booooo I won't pay reparations to slave children, I won't pay reparations to you. The civil war enthusiasts can frick off too.
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Why are you defending Nazis?
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Because it's as impactful as supporting confederates or Pharaohs
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