World War II
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#AVMTrivia | India's first dubbed film. In 1942, India too was forced into WWII. People feared the Japanese invasion & left Madras. In the studio, only one employee stayed back...
Nobody wins until Nuremberg Trials 2.0. https://t.co/P1fh8GycDR
On the night of 16/17 January in 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose left India in modern Indiaβs greatest escape. He crossed Afghanistan, Soviet Russia and walked up the steps of German For...
Sir Winston Churchill neither caused nor contributed to the Bengal Famine of 1943. As someone who has spent countless hours reading through hundreds of pages of primary sources, w...
Time magazine cover (October 18, 1943) showing a portrait of Francisco Franco over Spain, with the caption: 'Franco of Iberia - An advance against him is an advance against Hitler....
βWhoever saves one life, saves the world entire.β 29 years of Schindler's List. https://t.co/JTQl8VqZh6
1/ Russian women have set up a "private knitting company" called the Night Witches to address a severe shortage of underpants on the front line. A shortage of fabric has led to the...
Iβve been enjoying the @BBCRadio4 reading of @BenMacintyre1βs book on #colditz. Last Fridayβs episode especially caught my ear, with a section on Birendra Nath Mazumdar. So hereβs...
βSubhasβ sacrificeβ β Indian print from 1948 showing nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose offering his head to Mother India as she frees herself from the chains of the British dr...
We all know that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose cultivated a close relationship with Berlin in order to free India from the clutches of British power. However, the Nazis also saw India...
Anti-Semitism Working in Favor of the Jews (Thread) - - - A big reason behind WWII was the Labor Zionist Movement; prior to the war, there was little support and funding for a Je...
While history is rife with racism of every stripe, the American outpouring of hate toward the Japanese after the Pearl Harbor is unique for its sudden onset and its official sancti...
The Battle of Falais Pocket was a decisive battle in WWII Normandy campaign that swung the tide in favor of the Allies. A key contributor to the Alliesβ success was the recon done...
War, the game of money. Canada and the US had such a good propaganda campaign in WWI-WWII, that they received well over $20 billion from their citizens. Asking for their money, a...
Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK, said that in January 1941 FDR had assured him: "I have no intentions of going to war... I've said it 150 times at least" This was a deception. By D...
Yes, Americans Overwhelmingly Opposed US Entry into World War II https://t.co/UxqIWqLKeq
Job Maseko, a WW2 hero, sank a NAZI ship with a bomb made from a tin can with condensed milk. He was denied the highest military decoration, due to his race. Β A THREAD! https://t...
//Thread HITLERβS PRIESTESS - who claimed that Hitler is the incarnation of the Hindu God Vishnu and that he was destined to bring an end to the Kali-Yuga (dark age of Hindu-mytho...
Have you ever heard the names of these young freedom fighters, all aged between 21 and 25, who were tried and executed by the British? If not, donβt be sad: youβre one of 99.999% c...
In 1948, a 13 y/o Jewish boy: β’ Hands death sentences to friends β’ Fakes his name to escape Nazis β’ Survives on restaurant leftovers How he escapes death to build an $8.6B busine...
A short list of high ranking and notable Nazis who were absorbed by NATO after WW2 𧡠https://t.co/j2B7v6JBFE
Itβs remarkable how much WWII has been filtered through a Hollywood lens for Americans. Americans were βbitter, stoic, grim, impatient, and vengeful.β And the men were cynical an...
British WW2 propaganda leaflet featuring a statement issued by Mahatma Gandhi in 1943. https://t.co/i0RV1wpwba
Thread: Hubris and Operational Planning Arrogance and overreach are rightfully viewed as the root Nazi Germany's strategic mistakes - but in this, they were not so unique. Hubris...
