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How many Germans …

by cringeyjokesman August 11, 2022, 11:50 am

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TIL In the Battle of Port-en-Bessin, after D Day, British commandos (outnumbered 4 to 1 by the Germans) fought their way up through concrete, entrenchments, mines & barbed wire defences to take German positions one-by-one

by whatilearned August 2, 2022, 12:41 pm

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How germans call popular LGBT infuencers?

by cringeyjokesman July 25, 2022, 8:48 am

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TIL after General Dwight D. Eisenhower found victims of Nazi concentration camps, he anticipated that in the future there would be attempts to deny what happened. He ordered all possible pictures taken, and had Germans from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and bury the dead.

by whatilearned July 15, 2022, 8:41 pm

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TIL the Seychellois are the world’s biggest drinkers consuming on average 20.5 litres of alcohol a year and the germans are only 6th!

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 3:35 pm

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TIL that Leo Marks, a WWII cryptographer, suspected that Germans had infiltrated the Dutch network in 1943 because all messages were being sent without any errors. To test his theory, Marks sent a message with “HH” and received “HH” in response. “HH” was a common German sign-off for “Heil Hitler.”

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 3:47 pm

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TIL: The claim that the German public did not know about the concentration camps’ atrocities, generally made by Germans after Berlin fell in 1945 and accepted by most historians is false. Most of what happened in the camps were spread through German news in a process of “desensitization”.

by whatilearned June 20, 2022, 4:57 pm

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Non germans of reddit, what’s the best thing about germany?

by QuestionGuy June 16, 2022, 1:00 pm

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Germans of reddit, what are some things you have noticed to be different between former eastern germans and former western germans?

by QuestionGuy June 1, 2022, 3:23 am

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TIL banned since 2008 for ‘unacceptable humanitarian consequences’, antipersonnel cluster bombs were first used by the Germans in WW2. In Iraq in 1991, 61,000 were dropped , containing 20 million submunitions

by whatilearned May 21, 2022, 6:57 am

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TIL about an expiriment called “the wave” conducted at a highschool in california, that explained why the germans around the Nazis didnt do anything about them murdering and persecuting their neighbors and family during world war 2.

by whatilearned May 19, 2022, 8:25 pm

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Germans don’t have bad sausages..

by cringeyjokesman May 3, 2022, 7:49 pm

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