History (and related interesting facts)

.....Himmler himself?

Kill me...

So just another two videos to refund...

It's not a documentary though. It's of course obvious from the quality, but I thought it meaningful to point out, since we have some children here.
It's from a rather new Chinese movie, made just a few years ago.

You know whenever I see stuff of this nature my eyes are always scanning faces to see if I can recognize anyone.

Short clip of the German-Soviet victory parade in Brest after their joint conquest of Poland.

Nope.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_persecution_of_the_Catholic_Church_in_Germany

I thought Hitler was a Catholic...

Now that was a somewhat...complicated relationship if there ever was one.

Both parties eh...a somewhat and I stress that titling apt way to describe this association is...forced cooperation. Note this is for the relationship between the state itself and the Church as a institution. Both parties benefited from cooperation on a few occasions and this mostly had to do with the threat of communism in Eastern Europe during the late 30s and early 40s. Though this was usually on a provisional level nominally endorsed locally, but a handful of overt acts occurred in the lead up to the war. Though the relationship was stressed throughout the lead up and during the war.

For example the Catholic Church was accused and was in fact hiding several of the Partisans who murdered Heydrich  in Prague. Though I do not believe that the assertion they assisted with enabling the attack that assasinated the man was ever proven, it was overtly more circumstantial then anything but...its stuff like that strained relations truth be told. As much as Germany pushed the Church pushed back evenly.

Though again, it was a relationship that both sort of had to endure. The Church's presence throughout Europe was undeniable and often times something that the Germans had to account for.

Gun laws in this country are bullshit have been for a few decades now.

Vid on the various proprietary automatic pistol cartridges of the 1890s and 1900s and the various handguns they belonged to, most of which have long since fallen out of use.

Vid on the MG34 and MG42, the two main machine guns used by Germany in the second world war. The '42 would still find use by militaries worldwide after the war with it's descendant the MG-3(whose most noticeable difference is that it was rechambered for 7.62x51 NATO from it's original 7.92x57) and was used in conflicts like the Iran-Iraq war(by Iran).



And here we have a vid on the American M60 machine gun, which was the main U.S MG in the Vietnam war and whose design was influenced by the aforementioned MG42 and by the FG42(an automatic rifle used by German paratroopers in WW2).

The 43? The navy still uses that as far as I know.