35 Interesting Historical Photos That Show How Much The World Has Changed

I think the officer is having more fun than the kids! Genuine joy all round

It seems to me that when we gave military equipment to the Police Department, they began viewing themselves as Military and not Civilian police.

Back then they didn't have the need to leave their fingerprints on any car they were stopping cars for traffic matters.

According to research, the average black male in 1937 made about $12.87 a week (with an average annual salary of $639 per year). To put it in perspective, if we multiply everything x50 to try to equal today's paychecks and prices, that means that same black male would make $643.50 a week, but that milk would cost $3.00 a gallon, the Pepsi would cost $2.50 a bottle. So, it's not as cheap as it seems in that regard.

May be wrong but wasn’t it used when washing clothes? The electric iron wasn’t in many homes so they pressed clothes ‘flat’ and the starch allowed the clothes to remain crease free during wear

Starch was used in a lot of recipes like cornbread, it made the food go further. Stuff like Corn starch are still used in some recipes today, it makes a good thickening ingredient. I have a cookbook that I got from Mom, there are recipes in it dating back to the early 1900's. That book was published in 1950 and there are recipes that I still use today. Of course converting Oleo (Margarine) Lard (Crisco or other vegetable oils) Cake and bleached flour (regular flour) into today's ingredients and measurements can be fun. I'm incredibly lucky to have had an older Mom (she was born in 1933 and 1977 for me) to act as an "interpreter" 😁that made thing SO much easier. 😄

The amount of hate _everywhere_ is disturbing.

Not all German soldiers were bad people. But all German soldiers served a clearly horrible cause.

The myth of the clean Wehmarcht is still a myth, though.

My Great Grandfather fled Germany because of his religion. Jehovah's Witness not Jewish. The NAZIs were broad spectrum haters, and GG Otto saw it was time to run. He moved here to the states and started calling himself Oswald. Signed on with a timber company in California back in the '30s. A few generations later, and that's where I'm from. Not a JW and sure as hell not a NAZI.

My grandmother was French & was a young woman during the war. One of the stories she told often was one day she was out and was running late. When she tried to go back home a German soldier told her it was past curfew and that she couldn't enter the area she was attempting to go through. She got upset when a different German officer (a bit older) and said let her pass she lives in the area. My grandmother went on her way. A few days later she was out & she saw the soldier who allowed her to pass through she went up to him & thanked him. He told my Grandma that she reminded him of his daughter back home.

Most soldiers of any nation or any era were not bad people. They were just people, forced to follow evil leadership. Which is why it's so important to recognize and eliminate the evil leadership before it begins.

tell the to my grandmother, 3 survived auschwitz out of a family of 14 kids. her brother lost his family, my grandfather lost his 1st wife and kids. no nice Germans for them I guess

Oh, he may have said hello to my great-grandfather! He was in the German army as well. He was from German family in the south of Denmark and he chose to join the German army. There was some army-group just for Danes who volunteered for the German army. He was on the Eastern front (I think he was on the way to Stalingrad when he was wounded) and he was in Berlin during the final days of the war. I think he joined the German army because he felt German at heart. Not because he was a Nazi per se. He just, my best guess, hated everybody. (Yeah, he seems to have been a major a-hole. Spitting on ppl on the bus for no reason, lying to his family about things to have his way, cheating on my great-grandma (who cheated on him also. Lol). I don't recall much of him but I did not like him much).

Many died rather than do the things they were asked to do. The dead don't have ancestors acting as apologists for some of the worst crimes in history.

I wonder if he knew my grandfather. He joined the military in 1933 and was also at Stalíngrad and survived. He didn't like the Nazis according to my dad and joined because he was a poor farm kid in East Prussia and our family had a history of joining the military going back to the early 1800s.

Sadly, yes, many were forced into carrying out Hitler’s plans. I’m glad your grandfather managed to get out alive and pray he was not a hateful man, either!

"Not all German[s] were bad people." You're right. A lot of them were Good Germans. Just like we're seeing some Good Merkins currently.

Yes they were. Your granddad is an exception thankfully

What happened with the superior? Did he stand trial or dod he escape?

cugel, the funny thing is, the US military expelled anti-vaxxers and supported trans service people. Trump reversed the US military policy of rejecting anti-vaxxers and supporting gay and trans service people, thus undermining US military morale. Soliders are most extreme in support of their comrades - the ones they can trust and rely on. You can't rely on someone who refuses a vaccination to keep everyone safe, can you now? Nor can you rely on someone who objects to your proven comrade because of your comrade's sexuality or other trivial characteristic. Solidiers value loyalty to themselves and their mates above almost everything else - any time, any place.