To some people, memes are associated with jokes about cats, coffee, and the latest TikTok trends. And it's fine. But online humor can also be sharp, insightful, and educational when it's done right.
That’s exactly what the Instagram account 'HistorylandHQ' offers. From everyday life in ancient civilizations to modern politics, it uses clever cultural references instead of dry textbook explanations to talk about the events that shape our present.
However, having sat through a class or two makes the punchline land even harder!
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That ain’t me
If he says the dead body is him, can he collect his own life insurance?
That he had to go to a morgue and identify a body to say it wasn't *HIM*. So many degrees of fail here it's actually mind boggling.
When a DJ from the US called Bill Bailey died the BBC announced that the British comedian Bill Bailey had died on its Twitter account. The first Bill knew of his untimely death was when he suddenly started getting phone calls from concerned friends and family. Apparently that was greatly exaggerated too.
No change since then. Today if you stand up against racism, you're accused of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
How soon most Republicans forgot or "forgot" their collective reaction to the Obama Presidencies
Load More Replies...Unfortunately the USA government still has issues wondering why we would want to protect civil rights
I follow her son on TikTok & he interviews her all the time about her civil rights activism. She's a fascinating lady!!!
Julia Göke, who is the doctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, argues that memes are integral to the creation of contemporary historical consciousness.
By juxtaposing historical imagery with modern contexts, memes, she says, allow for a democratization of history, enabling people to engage with and contribute to historical discourse outside traditional academic frameworks.
Does the union make us strong?
I'm a USian and approve this message. The civilized world needs to put our government in a corner until it learns to behave.
Load More Replies...Yes, the union makes you strong, because your pay and conditions are negotiated on behalf of ALL workers, not individually. While that means a few people (the suck-ups) might get a little less, everybody else gets a little more, and more than that it encourages a standardised pay scale so people are (usually) being paid the same to do the same job. It's not a perfect system (cough, Britain in the '70s, cough) but it's stronger together as opposed to being screwed individually.
I had to explain this to a young coworker, who I think hangs around more rightwing sources of ‘information’, recently. On the whole employers would **far** rather negotiate with one representative in order, for example, to enact necessary changes in a way that suits everyone (e.g. legislative change) rather than have to negotiate one by one with each individual employee. I then pointed out that we never see in the news (or on Tik Tok, or whatever) “Union and Employer come to an agreement that suits everyone, quickly and without fuss” because it’s not a story, it’s normal. He looked surprised that there was another side to the story, to say the very least.
Load More Replies...Not unless you have them. Seriously: for some reason countries with strong unions and other strong social security measures in place seem to have way less poverty and more happy people. They also have fewer billionaires, but (outside of mega yacht manufacturers) who needs them? Individualism is a nice thing when "nobody gives a fúck" means that minorities are not discriminated against - it sounds a lot less benign when the topic is a single mother of five who is about to get fired because of too many "kiddo is sick" days. Unions help people fight for their rights (one on one against the employer, and on a grand scale by initialising changes in law) and against exploitation.
Load More Replies...He was in to something!
I love Diogenes. He had no care in the world for what anyone thought. He would walk around barking like a dog, and shining a lantern into people’s eyes saying, “I’m looking for an honest man!”
Diogenes is my absolute favorite. Plato called man a featherless biped, Diogenes just ran up and showed him a chicken (I think) with all its feathers plucked out
Diogenes would openly masturbate in the marketplace. He was a renowned s*x pest.
"Tut, tut, my dear, I'm trying to help your family. Your mummy got caught up in some pyramid scheme, and something sphinx about it. She just won't listen - she's totally in denial."
(upvoted, despite the urge to take revenge for such terrible punning... 😉 [yeah I'm jealous because I can't do things like that})
Load More Replies...In other words, Göke believes memes aren't just jokes or distractions; in her eyes, they act as cultural touchpoints that reflect and shape public memory, revealing how we as a society interpret and reinterpret the past.
Göke sees memes as both mirrors and constructors of historical meaning, giving everyday internet users the tools to interact and discuss the subject in ways that were once the domain of academics.
As the great sage once said "Violence is not the answer. Violence is the question. The answer is 'yes'. " 😬 (anyway, that helmet belonged to a immigrant culture. Bl**dy Angles and Saxons, coming over here with their fancy continental ways, mangling their language until it turned into English, etc., etc.😉 )
Finally someone who understands. No one is superior. I knew English-English people as proud of their Saxon blood as WASPs in America proud of decending from Mayflower rejects
Load More Replies...Of course most Christians are all about banning books. But..have you READ the bible lately? Pretty vulgar stuff in there.
Geoffrey Scott: Jesus didn't tell anyone to ban books. Self-identified "Christians" banning books are just a bunch of ignorant authoritarian bigots with whom Jesus would be very cross. (😉)
Load More Replies...People greatly overestimate how different things were when we say "history repeats itself" for 10,000+ years and the same human dysfunction. The same greed, power and hate. Different people, places, things...but the same thing over and over. If only EVERYONE chose to be kind. 😔
I honestly blame the neolithic age. We were doing great up until then. The mesolithic was a great time to be human.
Roxy222uk : quite right. The rot set in with those devilish Neolithic innovations of agriculture and permanent settlements. We'd never have developed writing without that and look at all the trouble literacy has caused. Pfft. (I'm *probably* joking... 😉)
Load More Replies...*Grumbles in historian* Just wait until you learn about the Sea People. No written records, Nothing. Just a Bronze Age collapse.
Niki: all anyone "knows" about the 19th century hypothesis of these "Sea Peoples" is a few claims made in a few ancient Egyptian texts - you could argue that it's just French story-telling from the mid 19th century. Archaeology tells us there was a Bronze Age collapse; there's not a lot of history from the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples#Primary_documentary_records
Load More Replies...Historically violence pretty much IS the answer. We need to post better questions if we want different answers...and I'd very much love meself some different answers, if only for the sake of my non existant heirs.
Violence isn't the answer? Violence settled Hitler's hash pretty good.
And what was Hitler famous for? Come on, do keep up.
Load More Replies...How is this more stupid than the US prohibition that lasted 13 years?
Because when he was in power, there was no such thing as age restrictions with drinking and kids and adults alike drunk vodka for health and social purposes, entirely different drinking culture to America 😝
Load More Replies...Russia is number 2 in the world for alcohol-related deaths. Belarus is number 1. I can see why he tried.
If you ever feel stupid, don’t forget Tsar Nicholas ii existed
Yes River River
It's still the word for river if you're speaking Cymraeg - spelt "afon" but that Welsh letter "f'" is pronounced as an English "v". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_orthography/ Meanwhile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittonic_languages
The alleged "Torpenhow Hill", too. Wiki has a whole list of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_names 😀
Load More Replies...There's a lot of it about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_names. There's a "River river river" here in England: "Ouseburn River in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (River River River – from Brythonic usa meaning water, river or stream and bourne also meaning stream in Anglo-Saxon)."
Load More Replies...Reminds me of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, which has geographical features called "I don't know, just a mountain", and "Your finger you fool".
Dylan Thomas wrote Under Milk Wood - set in the Welsh village of Llareggub. Llamedos is the name Terry Pratchett gave his Discworld version of "Not at all Wales, oh dearie me no" . In reverse, the two place names work out as "Bugger all" and Sod 'em all". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Milk_Wood. I've failed to find a link to the original BBC version of Under Milk Wood featuring Richard Burton as the narrator. If you can find a link to it - well, it's worth a listen. It was written to be heard, not read. Many Welsh place names begin with "Llan" - that "ll" is a sound peculiar to Welsh. https://welearnwelsh.com/blog/how-to-pronounce-ll-in-welsh/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llan_(placename)
Load More Replies...The Dutch had a big impact in the Hudson Valley at one time and the Dutch word for stream or creek is "k**l". Besides being responsible for a small bunch of mountains being called The Catskills, a lot of stream names follow that, such as The Coxing K**l, Peters K**l and Stony K**l and Swarte K**l (meaning "Black Creek" and it's one drainage over from Black Creek). And then we've got Catskill Creek, Kaaterskill Creek, Plattekill Creek and a bunch of others with the same sort of redundancy.
Is that so? I'm a native dutch speaker and have never heard the word k**l being used in the way you say?
Load More Replies...In the south west of Western Australia there are lots of town names with the suffix UP…Nannup,Quininup,Manjimup etc (you get the idea). Turns out it is from the Noongar, an Australian Aboriginal language meaning ‘place of’ . This wiki page goes into more detail. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/-up#:~:text=The%20suffix%20originated%20in%20a,a%20related%20dialect%20of%20Noongar
Allegedly Torpenhow Hill in Cumbria (torr in Old English, penn in Celtic, hoh in Older English). So it's the highly tautological Hillhillhill Hill. I say allegedly as there's apparently no landform in the location with that name.
In Wales there is a hill whose name translates to Hillhillhillhill if I recall correctly. And every word in the name is from an different ancient language/dialect.
Göke categorizes this process into four stages:
Productional: Focusing on the creation of memes, this dimension considers the intent and context behind their production, highlighting the role of creators in shaping historical narratives.
Communicative: This step describes accessibility and reach. Memes vary from circulating in small private groups to appearing on widely used platforms, and since they're also highly intertextual, their understanding depends on the audience’s familiarity with the references and codes they use.
Receptive: Here, the emphasis is on how audiences interpret and engage with memes. Likes, dislikes, comments, all of these things determine a particular meme's longevity and relevance.
Historical: Finally, this dimension looks at the role of memes in shaping historical discourse, influencing collective memory and public perception of historical events.
Been working on my Gruul Dino and Dragon deck lately
https://preview.redd.it/obvqaa0lhn841.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=00e27fe47ee6ede53e5e0f0a8be0ce6322fe07d4
I would’ve been such a stud in the 1700s!
The are thing is a tiresome trope. If you survived childhood you could prob get to a pretty decent age. People 10-40 usually was thriving (well, better then the younger ones at least ).
Thank you! I was reading this and thinking how sad it was that people have no grasp of history outside what they learnt from memes. Also, I don’t believe consumption was a big concern in the 18th century?
Load More Replies..."When he offers you cheese" - Actually that one still works today.
I was born less than a year before the fall of communism in Poland, but experienced the despair of it. Huge poverty, everything bleak, everything low quality, just the worst. And then I saw an English travel youtuber admire Soviet architecture and what not. Last year I went into bus station that didn't change at all, like a time capsule from the '80s. I whispered to myself, 'Where's Bald and Bankrupt?'
The truth is all the spies lied. They were bored and made up 💩 on both sides. Modern readers will remember the lie about WMDs in Iraq traced back to one guy with a grudge against Saddam
What I found most distressing, is the black man that SHOULD'VE been President, Colin Powell, was essentially destroyed for being a 'good soldier' (doing what his superior said). No shade on Obama, but CP was the right mix of conservative, with a good liberal heart thrown in. AKA common sense.
Load More Replies...Now do America. Or Britain. Or.... We're all "the greatest country on earth" and we're all sliding right into the jaws of a capitalist hellscape.
Western’s block reality: coming NOW to a theatre near you ! (Txs Trump + Big Tech)
One you wanted to strike fear in your enemy and show how powerful you are. Today, its let hide before unleashing the firestorms of hell upon them from all over
As I heard at a re-enactment - they used to wave their flags at each other, essentially sending the message "come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough".
Load More Replies...How did they convince guys to go into battle carrying only a flag, fife or drum? Only one of the Three Stooges could foil an enemy attacker with any of those items.
It was considered extremely bad form to attack the drummer boy or the piper. The flag bearer was protected extremely heavily because to lose the flag was a massive dishonour.
Load More Replies...That was a HUGE change in warfare. Right up to the Napoleonic Wars everyone knew why there were there. They were all going to go into a big field and fight until there was a winner. The idea was to attack the other side’s morale and build your own by looking wealthier, higher status, bigger, fiercer, whatever. Camouflage would have been utterly pointless.
"[Memes] wield significant discursive power, shaping contemporary discourse and providing a platform for diverse political opinions," Göke writes. "They have been shown to play a crucial role in community building, particularly for marginalized groups."
However, at this point, bad actors have also realized their potential. The researcher adds that political memes aren't simply ways for people to share their opinions; they can also be leveraged to manipulate or influence audiences through strategies like inoculating, spreading, or countering ideas, often with the help of trolls. In this way, memes can serve as powerful tools for propaganda and disruption.
Is this historical yet?
I know of several folks who would strip at the door after going grocery shopping and shower...seemed a bit extreme.
People were terrified. Didn't do that myself but know people who did.
Load More Replies...I'm rather surprised at Roosevelt for such off-key propaganda. On a more curious note, if you've ever seen the movie Gandhi, you'll know who Margaret Bourke White is; she's the reported played by Candice "Murphy Brown" Bergen. This was one of the photos that got her famous.
Load More Replies...By Margaret Bourke-White. Complete title is "At the time of the Louisville Flood". It has its own Wikipedia page.
Looks like the American Way is about to run them over, and even the dog is happy about it. So sad and dystopian.
Fair conclusion tbh
Mmm. I had to check. This is mistaken. The British Army in the 19th century did use lances and lances are a type of spear... (scroll down to plate E for one example) https://ia801409.us.archive.org/13/items/british-cavalry-equipments-1800-1941/vdoc.pub_british-cavalry-equipments-1800-1941-revised-edition_text.pdf and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance
I'd bet Britney could conquer and then reconquer them later. ("Oops, I did it again.")
Yes. He invented Frosties, hence his nickname of Alexander The GRRRRRRRRRREEEATT!!
Load More Replies...Well, nearly. He worked out the mass attracts, but more importantly, worked out the the moon's orbit could only be explained if the force decreased by the inverse square. That didn't take additional maths like calculus, although obviously it added to physics in a major way. Gravity was just a side quest for this guy.
For example, during the Brexit referendum, Russian operatives shared memes promoting anti-European Union sentiments, framing the EU as an oppressive force infringing on British sovereignty. This tactic not only fuelled pro-Brexit sentiment but also exploited existing divisions within British society. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Gotta be one of the coolest names out there
I kid you not: My wife has an ancestor named Hatevil Nutter (pronounced hate-evil-nutter. He was born in Dover, New Hampshire, Colonial America and lived from 1670-1745.
Related to Agnes Nutter. From Good Omens, perchance? 😏
Load More Replies...They were a preacher and the first documented person in America to declare themselves non-binary, now they’re an Indianapolis-based queer goth art rock band!
Unexpected consequences
It's difficult when you're a batshit crazy megalomaniac
Load More Replies...HOW DEEP DOES IT GO?!?
You know it's bad when you long for the days of GW again...
Load More Replies...“Russia has weaponized memes as part of a broader strategy of offensive information warfare—using troll farms, state-controlled media, and AI-generated content to spread false and misleading information as part of their strategy to sow confusion,” explains Dr. Tine Munk, lead researcher and senior lecturer in criminology at Nottingham Trent University's School of Social Sciences.
So we have to approach historical memes with a critical eye and remember that humor and simplification can sometimes mask bias or manipulation.
If you’re of Irish origin, ancestry.com might just classify you as being mostly of British and Northwestern European origin, even though your family records clearly show otherwise. For some reason, almost 10% of my DNA that shows that I’m Irish has been reclassified as English and Northwestern . European. Considering that my entire direct maternal-line family is primarily of Jewish, Scotch -Irish, and German origin. They also haven’t updated some users’ DNA test results since July 2024. I fully acknowledge and embrace that I am basically a Jewish and European melting pot, so to speak. I am curious why ancestry.com reclassified my DNA results without a sufficient explanation for the the reclassification.
Testing like ancestry is based on clusters of DNA found in previous testing, rather than actual locations, so it can change the more testing is done. When you are tested, if their current data shows the majority of people who have a trait you have are from a certain location, then it will say the likelihood is at some point your ancestors came from that location. However, if after more testing they find there is a greater concentration of that trait in another location, they will update your results to reflect that. Especially with Ireland, Scotland and England, you have thousands of years of population movement back and forth across them, there is going to be a lot of movement in results as the data pool widens (or broader definitions introduced)
Load More Replies...Travel the world, meet new people and then k i l l them. Brought to you by the new Department of War.
The new department of war doesn't even leave the country.
Load More Replies...Remember when America used to defend countries from dictators and now, we have one in our white house.
Well...if you look at our history, it often depended on what was most beneficial for us. If we liked a dictator, we supported them (see eg: Rios Montt in Guatemala and the photos of Reagan with his arms around the man who was currently committing genocide).
Load More Replies...I did not censor the word, it was automatically censored, so I will write it in Greek: φετίχ
Load More Replies...It's in BP's "Big List Of Words That Might Displease Our Advertisers".
Load More Replies...And I'm guessing there has been a change of wording, judging by the previous comments mentioning a censoring that isn't here now.
Belgrade Brawl 2.0
Trump went to Epstein Island, mlestss and raapz little girls. Said on air he would date his own daughter. His grandfather ran brothels
Load More Replies...Very fertile
And we'll spend the rest of civilisation arguing over who has what bit.
Excuse me, but I believe you are touching my bit....
Load More Replies...Originaly they had feathers on the pike until snipers popped off officers
Those helmets look really stupid. When I watch history documentaries, I'm almost glad the next guy had a different fashion sense.
Yupp, they do. We're not big on fashion in Germany, but rather more of a "function over form" crowd. The stupid things were way less conspicuous than a bunch of highly visible feathers, which used to identify the officer in charge to any happy sniper.
Load More Replies...Greenland looks the same size as Africa here. Africa is actually 14 times larger.
The usual excuse is "Mercator projection" - only that map's just wonky.
Load More Replies...People would have eventually traveled west, bc the experts (who said the world was much larger than Columbus who thought it was much shorter than it was, and convinced spain of this),who assumed a huge ocean that would take half a year to sail, more than the supply capability of ships at the time (they were correct about the actual size), so when Ships would have developed those capabilities, they would have traveled to see, as they had VIking legends of islands and lands off to the far west, and maybe it would have been 200 years later, but they would have gone there anyways.
There were people in the Americas before white people "discovered" it.
If they knew about Greenland, it's only a shortish hop to Canada, and then realising there's a hell of a lot more below that. And, really, it's a good thing. Can you imagine a world without coffee or chocolate?
um what are you talking about? It was Damascus and Aleppo that were the major trade cities on the Silk Road. At that time period, Jerusalem was a second tier town, didnt even have a wall (the wall we see was built by the Ottomans) for 150 years at that point. Jerusalem wasnt even on the Silk Road, it was on a very different trade route that connected Arabia to what is today Turkey, and connected Damascus to Eygpt, but at the time of Columbus traders bypassed the city bc it has fallen into disrepair. Jerusalem from the 800s until the 1700s was not a major trading post, its main value was it controlled the only valley one could move armies from Syria to Egypt along that wasnt costal. It was a military strategic point
Load More Replies...france fought, they just had bad battle plans the germans outflanked, they had tanks way better armoured and powerful than German ones, but were 1/4th the speed so they Germans outsped them, etc. They fought, they just poorly planned it all. THough in 1939 they could have ended it and taken Berlin if their leaders followed through on their promise to poland and didnt just barely invade Germany but had gone in full force.
Yeah, it’s just a stupid and insulting trope that the French just rolled over at the slightest provocation. They did the best that they could at the time.
Load More Replies...To be fair, nobody - not even german high command - expected that Guderian would cross the Ardennes with tanks and go around the french defenses
Before the war, in French press there was an article asking why they should die for Danzing. Maybe that's why.
So the French don't danz? Do they just listen to la musique and tap their sabot toes woodenly?
Load More Replies...As an American, I used to wonder how so many French (and before them, Germans) could so passively accept, or even welcome, fascism. I don't wonder anymore.
Load More Replies...History-Memes-Ig-Historylandhq
Yes, and there actually is. It's very hard to see, but there seems to be some red where the US Virgin Islands are (east of Cuba and Puerto Rico). It's not part of the US now, but the Philippines was acquired by the US (along with Puerto Rico and Guam) as a result of the Spanish-American war. About half of what's now the contiguous US used to be Spanish, too.
Load More Replies...When I read ‘How the West Was Won’ back in the 80s, which apparently told the proud story of how the United States became united, I was astonished to learn that actually it was mostly either bargained for or stolen from the French and the Spanish :-D
Okay but I would go into battle for her
Was it Byron who said, "Its easier to die for a woman than live with her?"
Knowing what I know of Byron, I would earnestly encourage him to take the easy way out.
Load More Replies...Mooooovd to Florida buy the car you want
"I don't know what weapons World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
Don't forget to give credit to the (attributed to) author Albert Einstein...
Load More Replies...The concept that some people didn't discover WW2 until 2 years after Germany invaded Poland still boggles my mind at the insular ignorance of said people...
Man walks on Moon
Well, I'm not signing up for Insta whatever it is, but can anyone tell us if this censorship in which the "bad/naughty/rude" words are censored is Insta or a very poor effort on the part of BP, as the words are easily read. No, I'm not offended, by the way, BP.
Don't need to sign up to anything. Right-click on the image, open it in a new tab. Click on the URL, the gibberish at the top of the page. Scroll right, a lot. Delete "__censored__700". Press Enter. Now you can appreciate it in its true form, including the *many* times "f*****g" appears in the article, quite a number of which slipped past the bot. ;)
Load More Replies...Comparing everything I read in the Onion against everything I read by you, I'd still go for the Onion by miles.
Load More Replies...That flag was during WW1 when the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic was formed to fight the Ottomans, before the Ottomans decided to destroy it with German help. Then in 1918 when the Ottomans collapsed they fell into a 3 way war before Georgia backed out if it, and the Armenians and Azerbaijan went into a 2 year brutal war (massacres on both sides) until the Soviets came in and forced all 3 to rejoin as the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and it didnt work well, so the Soviets decided to split them up into 3, and we still have issues today.
TIL about the short lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (22 April – 28 May 1918)
Load More Replies...Very cool
Absolutely ridiculous BP. It took me fractions of a second to find a picture of the helmets
BP just scrapes and reposts other sites' bs.
Load More Replies...Still looks a bit like Mel Gibson to me. Has anyone ever seen them together?
"Qusay, I am you father." "Yes, dad. You tell me and Uday that every d**n day."
Not surprising someone whose dad was a real life villain didn't understand the difference between thinking a villain was awesome and thinking they should be emulated.
There is a new pope in town
No idea what you mean by "centre of gravity", but where are Central America, South America, the Caribbeans, and part of South-East Asia? Even assuming that Poland, Ireland, and other parts of Europe are already calculated in your stats.
Given that some of it's in the ocean, I'm just going to guess that if you take the numbers of Catholics around the world and try to work out a statistical centre point... I guess it means there is an increasing number in the south/east? Or maybe just a diminishing number in the north/west?
Load More Replies...You know what sounds romantic, babe? A bunch of other teens hanging out with us at the dump.
Dude just wanted to conque
Cristobal Colon was just one hill away from discovering the Pacific Ocean. When exploring the Panama isthmus, heat, humidity, bugs, and complaints from the crew made him turn back to the ships. See "History of the Caribbean" by German Arcinegas.
Chicago be popping
Also can be said for most things
See ya in Tehran
So, what does this mean? I have no clue what the poster is trying to convey.
I think it’s saying that because the government was paying attention to the videos we watch, and this person was watching a military strategy video, they were chosen for the draft due to their new knowledge. It might be a joke about men who get forcibly drafted with no experience though, I don’t know.
Load More Replies...Ahem. Brit here. Number of times Brits have made a remark like that to anyone is the proverbial "two fifths of fúck all" because, er, we know about the monster that is the English language, British colonialism, British oppression of Ireland, etc., etc.. Americans make that sort of claim, but that's because they've been brainwashed into thinking that the USA saved the world back in 1945, etc., etc.
I was going to say, that’s one thing that Brits do not think or say! We’re incapable of thinking of anything worthwhile we’ve done since WWII, but mostly people hark on about community, pulling together, surviving on rations, and giving it to the jerries.
Load More Replies...After Hitler's death the Irish prime minister, Éamon de Valera, went to the German representative in Dublin to offer his condolences. He knew it would be controversial (and it still is) but he wanted to make clear that Ireland supported Germany during the war.
If people speak more than one language, they can make a choice about which they use when speaking to those of their own nationality. If people choose one language over another, that is their own issue.
There was certain notion amongst Irish republican to take side with Germany and offered Ireland as backdoor to full scale invasion of Britain. This was not received well and eventually phased out. Ireland was neutral during the emergency, yet provided vital support and intelligence to Allies. They treated all POW fairly good, even sent Brits back to the front in hope they will be killed by German's.
Cuppa tea?: you're talking nonsense about Irish treatment of POWs - it sounds like you're parroting the sort of nasty anti-British sentiment which characterised a certain type of Irish nationalist thinking back in the bad old days. Of course Ireland had no power to send anyone to "the front" and in at least one case, the Brits sent an Allied escapee back to the Republic Ireland (he'd reached Belfast). https://forthelifeofme-film.com/2019/07/30/the-most-bizarre-pow-camp-during-wwii-curragh/
Load More Replies...Thanks, I thought I was going mad there for a moment...
Load More Replies...Does the poll mean that Hawaii was part of India or Germany and populated by pineapple growing polliwogs or something?
Thanks, I thought I was going mad there for a moment...
Load More Replies...Does the poll mean that Hawaii was part of India or Germany and populated by pineapple growing polliwogs or something?
