Auxiliary Pics

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=zupadupazupadude;47304416]Um, how do you know that? Any of them COULD be nazis, although it's unlikely.[/QUOTE]

It's easier to assume they at least have Nazi sympathies, else they wouldn't be soldiers in their military.

[Araknid]

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[ペゴボド]

Auxillary pics v. nazi arguments

[Bonde]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;47306238]It's easier to assume they at least have Nazi sympathies, else they wouldn't be soldiers in their military.[/QUOTE]

In the end of the war, it didn't matter if you were a believer of the National Socialist ideology or not, you got drafted anyway. The German high command even started drafting regular people into the Waffen SS, a branch that earlier in the war exclusively was for "the elite", simply because the Waffen SS were desperately short on manpower.

[Zupadupadude]

[QUOTE=Fosax;47305945]The "nazi soldiers" were just the ones that belonged to the Waffen-SS, which was the military branch of the Schutzstaffel, the actual nazis[/QUOTE]

The Wehrmacht still had a lot of nazis in it. And yea, towards the end of the war even the Waffen-SS took conscripts.

[Jamsponge]

As far as I'm aware, calling them 'the Nazis' was just a way of generalising based on the fact that the Nazis were the ones controlling the Army. I'd say it's on par with calling them all 'Fritz', rather than earnestly believing that every soldier fighting for Germany was a member of the Nazi party.

[Maloof?]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;47306238]It's easier to assume they at least have Nazi sympathies, else they wouldn't be soldiers in their military.[/QUOTE]

that's not really how wars work

[Black034]

Spitfire pilot and his squadrons mascot

[IMG]http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=173506&stc=1&d=1244050704[/IMG]

109 pilot and his squadrons mascot

[IMG]http://wwiimodeller.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/Dog-On-A-Propellor.jpg[/IMG]

Conclusion, everyone loves dogs.. doesn't matter what country you fight for.

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Video footage from operation Bodenplatte, the Luftwaffe's last and most terribly planned offensive against forward Allied airbases in Holland and Belgium.

You can see 109s and 190s from different squadrons scrambling in the early morning of Jan 1st 1945.

[video=youtube;nUfEDZknArs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUfEDZknArs[/video]

600 Axis aircraft took off from Eastern Holland and Western Germany, 300 came back with only 300 destroyed Allied targets (which where renewed within 2/3 weeks).
After this day they primarily focussed on anti-bomber sorties with what they still had, most of them where young kids not even in their 20's.

[27X]

[QUOTE=paul simon;47304689]Hum, until today i didn't know that not all WW2 german soldiers went under the label "Nazi"[/QUOTE]

In the American prison camps, it took a almost two years for the admins to figure out if they housed all the SS and hardcore werewolf/wolfpack guys in one prison, and separated all the other prisoners, things at the camps suddenly turned a lot more friendly and industrious, and many of the prisoners became American citizens.

[Fulcrum]

[QUOTE=Teddybeer;47307637]Don't forget at times just joining a armed force can be a method of survival. Like you and your family would get more food and income. Most of how we think we would survive a war is filled with hindsight information, if your daily meal is one slice of bread a day while having no idea how long the war would last can lead to things later considered wrong.

And werewolf lasted longer as a myth than a real thing. Soviets financialy and in other wsys aiding neonazi's in West Germany was a bigger threat.[/QUOTE]

Last I heard it was the US funding the neo-nazis in stuff like operation gladio, some oh which went round murdering and blowing stuff up across Europe.

[hipsterhendrix]

[QUOTE=paul simon;47304929]I never really thought about it before, and I've just assumed all German soldiers during WW2 was what we called Nazis, because I've not heard anyone call them anything else than Nazis.

But I suppose it makes sense that their military was split up into multiple systems with different names and such. Suppose the Nazis just were the most "popular" of the bunch.[/QUOTE]

Majority of the fighting force in Netherlands and Normandy were all old men and childrne, I think many of the Hiterjugend regiments were in Normandy too.

[editline]12th March 2015[/editline]

[QUOTE=Bonde;47307001]In the end of the war, it didn't matter if you were a believer of the National Socialist ideology or not, you got drafted anyway. The German high command even started drafting regular people into the Waffen SS, a branch that earlier in the war exclusively was for "the elite", simply because the Waffen SS were desperately short on manpower.[/QUOTE]

drafted in a shit ton of foreigners too, there were a lot of norwegian and french regiments hanging about on the eastern front too

[Zupadupadude]

[QUOTE=cr2142;47308066]Majority of the fighting force in Netherlands and Normandy were all old men and childrne, I think many of the Hiterjugend regiments were in Normandy too.[/QUOTE]

Eh, it wasn't that bad. In a regular German Infantry Squad, the NCO was usually an experienced Eastern Front veteran. The riflemen were usually 18/19 years old and inexperienced, but driven. Half of the forces in Normandy were high-end troops though, like the Fallschirmjäger Divisions, SS Panzer Divisions, and the regular Panzer Divisions.

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=Bonde;47307001]In the end of the war, it didn't matter if you were a believer of the National Socialist ideology or not, you got drafted anyway. The German high command even started drafting regular people into the Waffen SS, a branch that earlier in the war exclusively was for "the elite", simply because the Waffen SS were desperately short on manpower.[/QUOTE]

That picture wasn't taken at the end of the war, though.

[Spazi]

[QUOTE=27X;47307495]In the American prison camps, it took a almost two years for the admins to figure out if they housed all the SS and hardcore werewolf/wolfpack guys in one prison, and separated all the other prisoners, things at the camps suddenly turned a lot more friendly and industrious, and many of the prisoners became American citizens.[/QUOTE]

Got source? Sounds interesting.

[ignhelper]

Jesus christ, what was essentially a terrible joke, and then you guys derailed the thread. Can we get back now?

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[QUOTE]The Villarrica volcano in southern Chile erupted, spewing ash and lava up to 1,000m (3,300ft) into the air. According to Chile's Ministry of Mining, its last major eruption was in 1985 and there have been smaller eruptions since.
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[QUOTE]The 22 humans who live on Aoshima Island, off Ehime prefecture in Japan, are greatly outnumbered by a population of more than 120 cats.
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[QUOTE]A handout image released by the Taronga Zoo shows Veiled Chameleon hatchlings at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, March 11, 2015. Taronga has welcomed more than 20 baby chameleons, with the last of three clutches of eggs hatching this week. Veiled Chameleons, or Chamaeleo calyptratus, are native to Saudi Arabia and Yemen and can live up to five years. (EPA/TARONGA ZOO)
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[IMG]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03225/potd-needle_3225873k.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE]An artist created the world's smallest sculpture...only for it to be crushed. Jonty Hurwitz creates sculptures so small they can sit on a human hair or on the head of an ant but 'freaked out' when he discovered a number of them had been squashed during a photoshoot. The 45-year-old's tiny figurines are less than a tenth of a millimetre tall and are created through a process called nano-printing His works have included a naked woman, a couple - one of them winged - in an embrace and a group of female mannequins.
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[Mr.Egg]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/e4XhLvr.gif[/IMG]
[QUOTE]Two-color volume rendering seen from two different orientations of the interaction of a T-cell expressing mEmerald-Lifeact (orange) with a target cell expressing a plasma membrane marker fused to tagRFP (blue) over 430 time points at 1.3 sec intervals. The target cell has been made invisible in the views in the right column (cf., Fig. 5A-C for a second example).
Credit: Betzig Lab, HHMI/Janelia Research Campus, Lippincott-Schwartz Lab, National Institutes of Health; 10/24/14 issue of the journal Science.
For more information, see hhmi.org/news/new-microscope-collects-dynamic-images-molecules-animate-life
The Betzig Lab at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus: janelia.org/lab/betzig-lab[/QUOTE]
[url]https://vimeo.com/album/3098015/video/109402660[/url]

[27X]

[QUOTE=Talishmar;47308765]Got source? Sounds interesting.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/german-pows-on-the-american-homefront-141009996/?no-ist[/url]

There's also a History's Mysteries special on it; I know H2/History International still runs History's Mysteries occasionally in marathons during holidays; also:

[url]http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Historians-bringing-long-forgotten-German-POW-3360193.php[/url]

[Error.mdl]

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;47309450]

[t]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03225/potd-needle_3225873k.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]

I saw this a while ago on slashdot. It turns out this was faked. This comment sums it up pretty well:

[QUOTE]

No, I'm sorry, it appears to me that this is all photoshopped fakery. Yes, two-photon lithography is a real thing, but in this case we have some artist claiming to have done things which are not currently possible.

This kind of thing happens pretty frequently now and it pisses me off, sorry. Real scientists and engineers (and even artists) dream and strive to accomplish great feats of engineering and discovery. But some people like to pretend their dreams are real and by presenting fake accomplishments to the world they damage society by trivializing the actual accomplishments of real innovators. They present their "art" as if it were real, and it gets sent around the internet and people believe that it's true, and that further blurs the public's view of what's real and what's art or pure fantasy. What's the point of trying to actually do something like this when everyone thinks it has already been done?

So, anyhow, a few minutes googling will expose some of the original pre-photoshop images that these people appropriated to create their "art". For example, the microphotograph of the needle's eye can be found here with no tiny statue in evidence:

[url]http://www.aber.ac.uk/bioimage/image/uwbl-0631-w.jpg[/url]... [aber.ac.uk]

In addition, depth-of-field, lighting, and other cues like the fact that there's no actual connection to the substrate make these fakes pretty obvious.

Ergo, I must presume the whole thing, including the video interview is all just "performance art".

Here's a tip: amazing and groundbreaking scientific and technological breakthroughs are generally not announced to the world by artists.

G.
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[Sharker]

Not really all that surprised by that. I'll be honest though, I did kinda believe it. Technology is advancing so fast that I wouldn't be surprised if that was possible by now.

[CabooseRvB]

[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/ipmuX9d.jpg[/img_thumb]

A Disney Animator makes facial expressions to a mirror to compare with his sketches.

[Sharker]

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French shops taped window art during WW2 bombings.

[t]http://40.media.tumblr.com/18bf882c80ef084c0d66ea1134b4c98a/tumblr_ni9fbsZvnt1u3oo9ao1_1280.jpg[/t]
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[t]http://40.media.tumblr.com/b36437ab394f0b85fb8dc9ebb28e59a1/tumblr_nipehvYtSP1u3oo9ao1_1280.jpg[/t]
~1940
(Source: LIFE Magazine)

Man, people did weird and fucked up shit when they were bored.

[Miya]

i never been here before, are webms allowed here

if so

[vid]http://a.pomf.se/ffczhk.webm[/vid]

[Skerious]

What game is that from?

[backwardspy]

[QUOTE=Skerion;47319125]What game is that from?[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rwzbIDLa14[/media]

[Paul-Simon]

In that particular mission, you are in a very large ship that you've directed towards the sun in an attempt to destroy it.
KZ:SF had some really cool stuff, shame it's otherwise not a very good game (imo)

[adam1172]

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32814946/11054401_954988571187259_1295017052521110794_n-600x360.jpg[/img]

An indonesian KAI KT-1 Woongbi crashing into the ground after colliding with another aircraft during acrobatics practice.

Happened just about 5 hours ago in Langkawi, Malaysia.

Both pilots ejected and safe.
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32814946/limap1151.jpg[/t][t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32814946/71426404143_freesize.jpg[/t]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp8jN8ZJSnw]Video if anyone's interested[/url]

[Teeteegone]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/oCFgXju.gif[/img]

[Scot]

wow Syria is beautiful

[url]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2d8_1426351757[/url]

[Roll_Program]

[IMG]http://40.media.tumblr.com/22b14c62eac38a4b7f2116fc7b9581ea/tumblr_nkuqel3P2y1sivw65o1_1280.jpg[/IMG]

[CabooseRvB]

[quote]"A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack." - Admiral Yamamoto to Ogata Taketora on January 9, 1942[/quote]

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/James_H_Doolittle_medal_bomb.jpg[/img]

[quote]James Doolittle wires a Japanese 'Peace Medal' that was given by the Japanese Ambassador days prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor onto a bomb that is to be dropped on Japan during the famous Doolittle Raid[/quote]

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Incendaries-b29.jpg[/img]
[quote]B-29 Superfortresses dropping their incendiary payloads over Yokohama in 1945[/quote]

[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Allied_naval_operations_off_Japan_during_July_and_August_1945_%28edit_1%29.svg[/img_thumb]

[quote]Overview of the naval and air operations that took place in Japan[/quote]

[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/USS_Indiana_bombarding_Kamaishi_14_July_1945.jpg[/img_thumb]
[quote]USS Indiana off the coast of Japan firing full salvos bombarding targets on shore.[/quote]

[url=http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/misc/firebombsusa/]Interactive Infographic of the cities devastated by firebombing compared to US cities[/url]