Witsand87 t1_is1oget wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIl the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer was built in Germany during world war 2 by Konrad zuse but received no press coverage because of the war by mankls3
Well, the autobahn’s main goal was to transport military, all the job creation and sudden rise of economy was geared to collapse in the long term, as it too was focused on a future war, so a war had to happen, and as the war went on, more war was needed to sustain the economy, for example the push into Southern Russia for the oil fields. The way the Third Reich managed the economy would have imploded on its own without a war.
I’m not disagreeing with you though, the autobahn was the first highway, V2 the first ballistic missiles that lead to space travel, first photo of earth was even taken using a modified V2. First jet aircraft, first assault rifle, the volkswagen even, and so on. Just saying that, let’s say, unfortunately, most of these innovations has their routs in war. That doesn’t take away how innovative they were though.
[deleted] t1_is27ox6 wrote
Still all big achievements. And continuing with many more. Grusom war, but all sides where grusom.
It was still a time where Alexander the Great, and The Roman empire still where very much, admired and for reason.
My father fought in Norway during wwII, and like he also said. They where different times, “evereyone” turned to animals. The world was “Crazy”
“What we learn from history is, we do not learn from history”
Witsand87 t1_is29b2x wrote
Yes, people today seem to forget just how crazy history has already been. People saying things like “we living in the last days before the end of the world because of all the wars etc going on today”. Well, if you want to get all biblical about it then surely the second world war was the end of the world, it even had a leader, who at first seemed unstoppable, trying to wipe out all jews and install a new world order. We are actually living in a fairly peaceful time in world history today, all things considered I guess. So I’d believe what your father say, we cannot really imagine what it’s like when a war happens and it comes down to survival, for yourself, family and/ or your identity/ nation.
[deleted] t1_is2bsng wrote
And by communicating, like we do here. We can discuss, Good things, bad things, innovations etc.
I think the whole world is, fedup with war, chestbanging and fear drivven politics.
Time’s for change, i hope are coming.
“If you always speak the truth, Less need you remember”
Witsand87 t1_is2ln5e wrote
We are definitely living in an age that’s like no other in history. Where kings and dictators had it “easy” to manipulate their own people in the past, today it’s getting harder to do with, for now, uncontrolled communication, or should I say, free communication and access to information. But another danger arise with this, and it’s something Hitler’s arms minister, Albert Speer, warned about, he said that never before has anyone used technology so well for propaganda, like the radio and camera. He said something along the lines of how great technology is, but we should safeguard it and not allow dictators to use it for their own benefits. Internet is an amazing tool, but it too can sway opinions if it ever gets controlled, or simply just via advertising or miss information.
[deleted] t1_is4qy9a wrote
Curvball: everything after 1940 is propaganda….. 🫣😁
[deleted] t1_is4r14x wrote
We are living in a world, of information over load. And the best way to control, in your hands…..
whiffitgood t1_is2jjti wrote
>but all sides where grusom.
One side was fighting to build, maintain and defend a regime whose existential purpose was the destruction of entire peoples.
>“What we learn from history is, we do not learn from history”
Yeah like pretending there's any kind of moral equivalence between the Nazis and the Allies because all sides
lmao
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