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The Thirty Years' War didn’t have tanks in it so it’s not to be considered a war. I also like to bring to your attention, that I’m a mod at askhistorian. So if you don’t agree with me, you will get banned.
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Dang, since leaving the other place you can only afford the one historian? A pity.
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WW2 tanks and planes are cool as hell and interesting. The tank museum YouTube channel is amazing.
Other facets of history are really interesting too though.
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Don't get me started on the links between information technology and fashion. That shits crazy.
Larger bodycount in similar conditions too, and not just when they cross the holocaust and deep throat it with both mouthes for a few hours.
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Fun fact: You know why WWII has been an incredibly prolific genre for history documentaries?
Hours and hours of public domain footage taken by the U.S. military. All of the Nazi footage is also public domain.
They make them because they're as cheap to make as you could make a history documentary. And people eat them up anyway.
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TIL, I was somewhat wondering why there are SO many WWII documentaries
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When I was in high school, the history teacher you got was like winning the lottery. One teacher showed war movies and had “fun” assignments related to that movie. The other teacher had written assignments almost every class.
I got super lucky… He was a fantastic teacher. Last I heard, some students ratted on him and he had to change his curriculum.
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What shitheads, fuck dem kids
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in the west "history enthusiast" is simply the common euphemism for wehraboo. ask those people anything but military history (history of literature, architecture, philosophy etc) and they wont know shit. and even in their supposed field of expertise they will rather praise some stupid nazi wunderwaffen than to accept that the fascist menace rightfully lost.
we liberated europe from fascism and they will never forgive us for it.
Marshal Zhukov
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They liberated it from fascism, and now they're fighting imperialist wars to bring it back!
Quite ironic, if you ask me.
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Oh, or mention how every major innovation in military history was gay first.
They get maaaaaaad
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That's the kind of history enthusiast I was as a kid, but I outgrew it. I still find the history or warfare interesting, but there are so many other facets of history that are equally fascinating and a lot more relevant to our lives today.
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In high school I asked why tanks weren't such a thing in Vietnam. And my Vietnam veteran teacher worked it around to how Ho Chi Minh was ignored by everyone except the Russians after World War 1. Seeing how all the lines came together to make that happen and then make the Vietnam war feel almost as inevitable as it was forlorn really gave me a sense of history.
He was my math teacher. My history teacher literally put names and dates on a slide for us to copy.
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Okay so this really long time ago in Italy there was a war over a bucket
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I'm listening
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Too busy right now https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bucket
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The U.S. and Britain once almost went to war over a pig that got shot for eating potatoes out of a garden.
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My favorite is the "Lancaster" the British knock-off of the B-17
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U fucking wot mate?
The Lancaster not only entered service before the B-17, it was also the superior aircraft with 10x the bomb load of the B-17
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Nah, the B-17 is the OG and the better one
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