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6 votes
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
16 votes -
How the Berlin Wall worked
13 votes -
Britain’s vast network of abandoned nuclear bunkers | Cold War UK
8 votes -
Let's Build: USMC M4A2 Sherman from Saipan 1944 (Dragon 1/35)
2 votes -
World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
10 votes -
The Greenwich meridian's forgotten rival
4 votes -
Why a tire company gives out food’s most famous award
15 votes -
Notes on the Ivory Coast
6 votes -
Hannah Arendt would not qualify for the Hannah Arendt prize in Germany today
27 votes -
WWII rescue buoys - Secret 'floating hotels' of the English Channel
4 votes -
How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
41 votes -
In WWII paperback books were mobilized to improve morale
9 votes -
London's traditional Christmas tree has been felled in Norway ahead of its trip to Trafalgar Square
11 votes -
Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway
13 votes -
The rise and fall of America's favorite junk foods | Rise and Fall
10 votes -
Monica de Wichfeld awarded Blue plaque honour in Derrylin, Northern Ireland – was a leading member of the Danish resistance against Nazi occupation in World War II
10 votes -
Why everyone hates this concrete building, and why brutalism dominates US college campuses
18 votes -
How the Blitz enhanced London’s economy (2018)
6 votes -
Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
13 votes -
A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
12 votes -
Fritz Haber, the man who killed millions and saved billions
17 votes -
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
32 votes -
A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
40 votes -
Gilleleje remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War II – its role in the flight and escape of over 7,000 Danish Jews
9 votes -
Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
7 votes -
Klaus Härö shines light on deportation of Jews from Finland in ‘Never Alone’ – first look at World War II drama
7 votes -
The race to catch the last Nazis
15 votes -
Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed
33 votes -
Norway remembers its wartime debt to Dumfries – special relationship being marked with the unveiling of a one-and-a-half tonne stone of friendship
3 votes -
Soviet flying aircraft carriers were ingenious
14 votes -
An effort to focus on long overlooked Roma suffering in the Holocaust
30 votes -
Moe Berg was a US baseball player-turned-spy who went undercover to assassinate the Nazis’ top nuclear scientist
21 votes -
The real Betty Crocker's pineapple upside down cake
17 votes -
Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked.
3 votes -
The Baťa Skyscraper in Zlín, Czechia is a landmark of architecture. And inside it, the office of Jan Antonín Baťa... is an elevator.
13 votes -
Chuuk Lagoon's skull problem
5 votes -
The logistics of moving wounded World War II soldiers across the US by rail were staggeringly complex
16 votes -
Götterdämmerung in the East - The Eastern Front in WWII after Stalingrad
6 votes -
How a World War II submarine works
6 votes -
Why Oppenheimer deserves his own movie
14 votes -
The inventor of glitter, Henry Ruschmann, also helped develop the atomic bomb
14 votes -
Parenting anxieties: Contexualising WW2 for a nine year old
OK, so I have a very nerdy, mildly ADHD 9 year old boy who has been fascinated with WW2 for ages. All this started with him getting obsessed with the Titanic when he was about 4, which then led us...
OK, so I have a very nerdy, mildly ADHD 9 year old boy who has been fascinated with WW2 for ages. All this started with him getting obsessed with the Titanic when he was about 4, which then led us to look at some old Nat Geo magazines about Robert Ballard's oceanographic expeditions which then led him to get fascinated with the German battleship Bismarck and Operation Rheinubung. The drama of big gun battleships got him in the feels and in the five years since then he has been deeply into naval stuff, particularly WW2 naval combat ever since. Musically this got him into Sabaton and their WW1/2 related metal songs. He actually sat down and watched the 1960s black and white Sink the Bismarck on YouTube, along with stuff like Midway (the version from a few years back). He thinks aircraft carriers are cool and ate up both Top Gun movies and is now getting into submarines (loved The Hunt for Red October) but wistfully repeatedly tries to reason me into agreeing that navies should have stuck with big gun battleships.
However, this has manifested as a deep fascination with Germany in general- he knows the basics about fascism, the Holocaust and Wehrmacht atrocities (but still can't quite get why it happened) but to a small boy I understand the OMG WUNDERWAFFEN attraction. Coincidentally his best friend is an ethnically German girl which further gets him a bit confused because he can't quite grok the difference between "my friend is German, I think German engineering is cool" and "but we still condemn fascism".
To be clear- he understands why racism and prejudice are wrong. As an ethnic minority in our country I suspect he'll come into contact with racial prejudice sooner rather than later so hopefully life experience will lead him away from the alt-right bits of history nerdery.We're in Singapore, which means there's very little consciousness of the Holocaust in public education- our history syllabus (fairly enough) deals with the Pacific War and its effects on postwar decolonisation when it touches on WW2 whereas the European theatre is just vague background.
I don't know where I'm going with this, really- I like that my son is a history buff, and I don't want to cut him off from intellectual interests he's passionate about but on the other hand I'm wondering how I can let him enjoy this while contextualising it from a progressive perspective.
41 votes -
Who really wants megastructure cites?
3 votes -
A brief overview of Shibboleths, including their use during WW2
9 votes -
Judd Apatow interviews Mel Brooks: "The Immortal Mel Brooks"
11 votes -
Upcoming Netflix WWII film, Six Triple Eight, stars Kerry Washington in film about unique Black female American unit
15 votes -
The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped
7 votes -
Eighty year anniversary of a speed record build of a WW2 bomber
7 votes