Interesting historic snippets....

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At the end of WW1 Germany was in turmoil...Leaders were coming and going and Governments were not really organised to control the Country..

So the rich and the well off had a great idea......They stopped paying their taxes....
Well Governments have to have money, so they turned to the Printing Presses....
They printed and printed and printed, and kept printing ....
That of course caused massive inflation....It was not long before one thousand Marks was needed to buy what one mark used to buy..
The result of that was ..The money the rich hand well off had became more and more worthless.
Ordinary people saving were wiped out and only the industrialsists were getting rich.....They dealt in the day to day money and foreign currency from exports...,
Well the population suffered dreadfully for a few years until they introduced the (I think it was called the rentenmark?) backed up by putting the whole of the German railway system in hock etc , inflation went down and the people were at last doing well...
Then Came the 1929 crash and off it went again, but this time Hitler was on the scene...

There lies a lesson about inflation and what can happen when a fair share of taxes are not being paid in each Country...
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I mentioned somewhere before about Cromwell being a Man of his time.....

During the thirty years War !1616-1646....A War mainly between Protestants and Catholics.....The Swedish Army destroyed in Germany...1,500 towns...18,000 villages and 2,000 castles....God knows how many people died then, but it was about 8 million during the War...

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When we see British movies about WW2 we always see people carrying Gas Masks.....German Soldiers carried their Gas masks in a metal fluted canister just above their waists at the back....
everybody expected the Germans to use Gas as a weapon......Hitler refused to use Gas as a weapon because he suffered from a Gas attack in WW1.....
He was still recuperating from that attack in a barracks in Munich when WW1 ended..... While he was there he was ordered to spy on a group that used a swastika as its emblem......Well he joined that Group and the rest is history...

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After the German President died Hitler took on his Title.....And his salary....

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It was the Dutch settlers in America who first paid their settlers to kill the Natives (Indians)....All they needed for proof of a kill was their scalps.....

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At the end of WW1 Germany was in turmoil...Leaders were coming and going and Governments were not really organised to control the Country..

So the rich and the well off had a great idea......They stopped paying their taxes....
Well Governments have to have money, so they turned to the Printing Presses....
They printed and printed and printed, and kept printing ....
That of course caused massive inflation....It was not long before one thousand Marks was needed to buy what one mark used to buy..
The result of that was ..The money the rich hand well off had became more and more worthless.
Ordinary people saving were wiped out and only the industrialsists were getting rich.....They dealt in the day to day money and foreign currency from exports...,
Well the population suffered dreadfully for a few years until they introduced the (I think it was called the rentenmark?) backed up by putting the whole of the German railway system in hock etc , inflation went down and the people were at last doing well...
Then Came the 1929 crash and off it went again, but this time Hitler was on the scene...

There lies a lesson about inflation and what can happen when a fair share of taxes are not being paid in each Country...
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It was perceived at the time & incorrect propaganda tried to show that it was the Jewish community that were blocking the flow of finance which I think was one of the reasons a large portion of the population turned against them.
Hitler at the time was recuperating in hospital when he joined the Nazi party & had that perception & might have been responsible for helping to spread it & hence his vendetta.
Nothing can ever & never will justify what ensued.

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It was perceived at the time & incorrect propaganda tried to show that it was the Jewish community that were blocking the flow of finance which I think was one of the reasons a large portion of the population turned against them.
Hitler at the time was recuperating in hospital when he joined the Nazi party & had that perception & might have been responsible for helping to spread it & hence his vendetta.
Nothing can ever & never will justify what ensued.

Sadly. There are many cases where people blame others for their own and others misfortunes....even to this very day.....

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Kaiser Bill died a British citizen.....

[Bo]

There’s only been one Dublin born president of Ireland.

[ob1kenobi.23]

There’s only been one Dublin born president of Ireland.

Good old Sean T.
& a yank & a brit, maybe 2 if you count McAleese.

[Bo]

Good old Sean T.
& a yank & a brit, maybe 2 if you count McAleese.

She wouldn’t like that OB

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When the Archduke was shot in Sarajevo in 1914 he died of blood loss. None of those that came to his aid had a scissors or a knife so they could not cut his coat open.....Being very strict about how he looked he had got his servants to stitch his coat closed that morning so it looked perfect....It is said that that his death .was the cause of WW1......maybe a simple scissors could have avoided all that carnage.....such is life...

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When Napoleon retreated .from Moscow in 1812. His main Army used the same road they had used to get there.....They had already scavenged the countryside on the way there for food etc,, so there was little to be had.....The mostly Italian elements of his Army used different roads further South to retreat......They fared very much better....Napoleon's Generals suggested they take the same route.....They were ignored...

When preparing for the attack on Russia. one of Napoleon's Generals requested the use of 22 wagons for his personal use.....

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The '''White House'' was originally. A lovely unpainted stone building.....During the War of 1812 a British Major set fire to the building.......It proved too difficult to clean at that time.....So it was painted White....

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During the American Civil War a soldier was found to have 22 rounds in the barrel of his musket.....With the noise and chaos.he had kept loading and not noticed it was not firing the rounds....

It was also noticed during that War that.....Soldiers from the South ate rice a main meal, where Soldiers from the North ate rice as a desert.