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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmerod_memorandum

The Himmerod memorandum (German: Himmeroder Denkschrift) was a 40-page document produced in 1950 after a secret meeting of former Wehrmacht high-ranking officers invited by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to the Himmerod Abbey to discuss West Germany's Wiederbewaffnung (rearmament). The resulting document laid the foundation for the establishment of the new military force (Bundeswehr) of the Federal Republic.

The participants of the conference were convinced that no future German army would be possible without the historical rehabilitation of the Wehrmacht and so the memorandum included these key demands:

• All German soldiers convicted as war criminals would be released.
• The "defamation" of the German soldier, including those of the Waffen-SS, would have to cease.
• "Measures to transform both domestic and foreign public opinion" with regards to the German military would need to be taken.

Adenauer accepted the propositions and, in turn, advised the representatives of the three Western powers that German armed forces would not be possible as long as German soldiers remained in custody. To accommodate the West German government, the Allies commuted a number of war crimes sentences.

Most casual history youtubers I watch can't go 20 minutes without making sinophobic "jokes". Anyone have better recommendations for learning pre-modern chinese history, everything from culture, monarchs, etc. of China that doesn't include liberal ideology or racism? Thanks!

There are so many women throughout history who are remembered for being the wife of their husband and are often referred to in these terms. How did she escape this? I never hear people say "Pierre Curie and his wife Marie". Is she just that cool?

I knew about Marie far before I learned about Pierre as well.

Beef is one of America’s most beloved foods. In fact, today’s average American eats three hamburgers per week.

American diets have long revolved around beef. On an 1861 trip to the United States, the English novelist Anthony Trollope marveled that Americans consumed twice as much beef as Englishmen. Through war, industry, development and settlement, America’s love of beef continued. In 2022, the U.S. as a whole consumed almost 30 billion pounds (13.6 billion kilograms) of it, or 21% of the world’s beef supply.

Beef has also reached iconic status in American culture. As “Slaughterhouse-Five” author Kurt Vonnegut once penned, “Being American is to eat a lot of beef, and boy, we’ve got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that’s why you ought to be glad you’re an American.”

In part, the dominance of beef in American cuisine can be traced to settler colonialism, a form of colonization in which settlers claim – and then transform – lands inhabited by Indigenous people. In America, this process centered on the systemic and often violent displacement of Native Americans. Settlers brought with them new cultural norms, including beef-heavy diets that required massive swaths of land for grazing cattle.

As a food historian, I am interested in how, in the 19th century, the beef industry both propelled and benefited from colonialism, and how these intertwined forces continue to affect our diets, culture and environment today.

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Stronger name too: they thought Charles Ignatius Sancho was the first black voter, new research says it's John London. Fuck me that's a strong name: John London.

Maybe I have the facts wrong, but here is what I understand happened:

• Hannibal crossed the Alps in 218 BC with adorable 7-foot-tall elephants

• Hannibal trounces the Romans in every battle, Cannae, Capua twice, Herdonia in 212

• Hannibal controls a good bit of Italy now: 217 map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Second_Punic_war_(cropped).png

• The Romans fight Carthaginian territories in Africa and Iberia, eventually Hannibal has to leave Italy to defend them

Seems like he had plenty of time to strike at the nerve centre? Why didn't he sack Rome after Cannae or something? Or am I misunderstanding the facts?

Fell down a rabbit hole and ended up finding the Luna oi! YT channel, a glowing recommendation from YaBoiHakim, and then this free ebook English translation of The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism Part 1 originally authored by the N Vietnam education ministry. Luna has seemingly been the first to translate this work and it serves as a very concise, streamlined overview of ML from a formalized NV perspective.

Ofc at the time of posting archive.org is down, the backup is here: https://github.com/NonCompeteCoop/The-Worldview-and-Philosophical-Methodology-of-Marxism-Leninism/tree/main

And the Luna oi! video I originally landed on: https://youtu.be/neI-ol2AowM