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>>3211142
Germans don't genocide because they won a war, they genocide because Germans are still barbarians.

First as tragedy
Second as farce

he was a big guy

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>>3211083
>be semi-retard
>yurop still cares for you tho
>tfw they even fought a large war for you
His importance was of great proportions.

>>3211048
muh chosen people

Torah tells them they are "the chosen people". Simple as that. I'm a Jew, I was Orthodox at one point, and I also served in the IDF. You can ask me questions if you like. I'm watching GOT so there might be delays in my responses, depending on how interesting or shit the show is.

God kinda did say they're the chosen people.

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This?

>>3211701
No it was atop some elevation overlooking the surrounding countryside. It was round but not sure if it was surrounded by columns.

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>>3212676
This?

more like fats and bumbling LMAO, what was this kook on about anyways???

>>3210954
Listen, man, I let Zizek cuck me every night, and I frequently kneel to him asking for blessings. This man is most certainly the biggest influence of this day and age, and you don't know shit about it cuz you're a little bitch.

>>3210783
why exactly do you believe the overall narrative of the Bible if you wholey reject the text itself?

>>3210783
If you disregard the Bible as an authority on anything then there's no reason to raise jesus above any other heresiarch who was executed in the roman empire.

>>3210783
>Not believing in the Bible
>Protestant

If anything you're a Catholic on steroids

>>3210761
They live in one of the shittiest places ever.

>>3210761
>largest contiguous empire in history
>literally who

>>3210761
It's because this board is full of pseudo intellectuals who put smartness on a pedestal. Being smart isn't as important as being determined or being lucky or being ambitious. Sure, being smart can make things easier, but it isn't the be-all end-all judge of who's better than who. But since we have a lot of people who think they're smart (and a few who actually are smart) on here we get more of that. You see the same thing on /fit/, people saying being healthy is most important of all, or on /r9k/ where they say charisma (which they understand they don't have) is most important of all. People who think they're smart are going to think smartness is most important.

>>3210461
What is there to dislike?

would you rather have some poor people or everybody to be poor?

>>3210461
Because social inequality is good. If you think the lazy, the stupid, the mentally handicapped, the blacks and other people which contribute less to society than normal people should be "equal" when they have only themselves to blame for their inequality is retarded.

>>3210321

That's not just during WW2, that's basically the entirety of Prussia's existence. The Prussia upper-class (Junkers, pronounced YUUNG-kər) always saw the German army as being theirs, and they hated sharing that power and prestige with any other group. They were an odd form of aristocracy; their privilege came in the form of heavily disproportionate influence in German government, especially in the Army, but also throughout the civil bureaucracy. Junkers were fanatically loyal to the Kaisers, and the Kaisers repaid this loyalty by ensuring that Junkers would always get the majority of government positions.

This feeling of entitlement was so strong that prior to WW1, the Junkers actually opposed efforts to expand the German army because were worried if the army became too large, they'd have to let non-Junkers become officers to fill all the necessary officer positions required for maintaining a larger force. This was when Moltke was desperately trying to drum up support for the creation of 4 new infantry corps.

Those 4 additional corps might have made all the difference in the world during the opening months of WW1. So in a very real sense, the Junkers were done in by their own sense of entitlement, and their staunch refusal to share power with other groups.

>>3210321

Also, in case you're wondering how the Junkers came to be distinct from other Germans in the first place, it's because they were not purely "German" but rather a Slavic-Germanic mixture. When the Junkers first took possession of Prussia, the population was too low to have a viable country, so the Junkers actually invited Slavic people to fill the country. They freely inter-married with the new residents and eventually came to be regarded as a distinct group of people with their own unique cultural identity. It was one of the ironies of history that this intentional mash-up of cultures eventually came to be held up as proof of Aryan supremacy by the Nazis.

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>>3210491

Thanks! So I'm assuming all the well-known names were Junkers? Manstein, Rommel, Guderian, Model, etc.?

I'm starting to see why John Green is right about military history

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*blocks your path*
come at me byzantine boy

how would you react?

>>3210025
what did xe said?

>>3209794
then take a look at what he did

I don't doubt Hitler wanted the best for Germans, but he just had to make life shit for the rest of Europe

>>3209811
Explain?

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>>3209821
Well you see Anon, there was this whole World War thing that happened..

>>3209769
Because Africa has more than 6 ethnies and cultures, just maybe ?
Retarded question

>>3209834
No I mean why split their territories into even smaller colonies? You know damn well they weren't based on ethnic lines. For example French West Africa, why didn't they just keep it one big colony instead of subdividing it over and over?

>>3209873
These places were all dirt poor. The small amount of developed infrastructure was not designed to maintain a whole country, just to facilitate the extraction of resources. There are also massive linguistic differences region to region. It would simply be impossible for these young, untested regimes to control areas so big. If they were released based on purely colonial lines, the new government's would immediately devolve into huge civil wars, ones even bigger and more confusing than the ones that happened IRL.

Besides, what would the European powers gain from releasing them as one big state? They had already divided them into sub-regions for administrative purposes, why would they go to the trouble of rearranging everything just to create a country that has a 90% chance of being a perpetual hellish warzone, or a 10% chance of staying together, and being powerful enough to resist soft control?