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The boy in the photo went on to become an editor for Ebony magazine. He wrote about a book about his experience growing up in Nazi Germany as a biracial, Black boy. Apparently he wore that patch to fit in with all the other little boys at school, even though black people were prohibited from joining the Hitler Jungen.
He confirms that it was, indeed, racist as fuck.
https://www.amazon.com/Destined-Witness-Growing-Black-Germany/dp/0060959614
> You can't fix the crop of humans that is currently broken.
This is bullshit. Below is a link to a memoir by Ishmael Beah. The dude was a child soldier at 12 years old, was rescued by UNICEF, and rehabilitated. He graduated from college, published several books, and has spoken at the UN. Im very much all for not creating new sociopaths but let us not act like the only way to deal with broken among us is to put a bullet in their heads.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Gone-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0374531269
> The Nazis were not particularly anti-black despite people claiming they are.
The nazis didnt need any speficic program targeting black people since
a) their racist opinion on black people wasnt controversial at all among
german people or all other western countries
b) there was no actual need to target them aside from the "common practice"
c) they had nothing to gain from frenetically attacking the handful black people
in Germany let alone those who were far far away from Germany and
didnt play any role in future plans (aka "Osterweiterung").
d) the Olympic games played a great role in maintained a "civilized" appearance
toward their adversaries (i.e. the US, UK etc). While Owens did ruin the
main goal showcasing the aryan superiority, they still gained some positive
PR as in "look, we let even this negro run on our turf, we aint that bad, right?"
A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007) by Ishmael Beah. Firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone (1990s) The last few pages, I just read one per day, an effort to delay the inevitable ending of a good book. *edited link from wiki to amazon
A long way gone: memoirs of a boy Solider https://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Gone-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0374531269
I HIGHLY recommend reading it. I absolutely loved it, such a great story but so horrible to have happened
I used to fantasize about living in a post apocalyptic world a lot, lol. For similar reasons. I’m really great at problem solving, like really good. I’d attribute that to my brains propensity towards pattern recognition. and in a crises life in a way feels easier…like, I can see things objectively where others cant and am able to get things done efficiently. Plus a nomadic or gypsy like lifestyle would be wonderful for me. My brain gets stuck in loops too much if I’m in one place a lot. And plants are an old special interest. Specifically edible plants.
I took an anthropology class that discussed this book. Not exactly what you’re looking for. But it follows the life of a woman from a hunter gatherer society in the 60’s. It’s so good! My thoughts have gone back to it many times over the years. https://www.amazon.com/Nisa-Life-Words-Kung-Woman/dp/0674004329
> Sepp Allerberger
The English version is called "Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight’s Cross"
https://www.amazon.com/Sniper-Eastern-Front-Memoirs-Allerberger/dp/1781590044
>he didn't think "I'm going to create a world and then later after that I'm going to set a story in it".
That's exactly what he did! Dude you're just straight up lying saying that's false.
When he was attending King Edward's school, he and his friends had a group called TCBS. And every month he would showcase the world and lore he was creating based on Norse Mythology and Old English folklore.
Pick up a book once in awhile bud and stop spreading flase information.
>But that's not "world-building",
Ok so constructing a language, creating calendars, genealogies for fake people, and creating his own pantheon and mythology isn't world building... got it bud.
There are many, but the closest thing to an authorized biography is the Humphrey Carpenter one. Carpenter was the one to actually visit Tolkien and interview him over the course of a couple of years. It's only not considered an authoritative biography because Tolkien insisted he wasn't important enough to warrant having his biography made. Actually I just looked up the link to the book on Amazon and it is now being sold as a biography which is hilarious.
His letters are where you really begin to realize oh my Lord this man was a Saint. The best place to start is also by Humphrey Carpenter.
It’s called hyperbole…. Evidently not everyone saw the irony. Oh well. Most American “Right” are more concerned about masks and toilet paper…. As long as it doesn’t concern or upset my comfortable life, I’ll ignore it. Even to the point of destroying the planet.
If you want to read an interesting book on African wars, read “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda”
https://www.amazon.com/Wish-Inform-Tomorrow-Killed-Families/dp/0312243359
We read a child soldier memoir in high school. It's not really academic, but if your thesis is more personal or incorporates anecdotal evidence, it might be worth checking out: https://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Gone-Memoirs-Soldier/dp/0374531269
My favorite that is in that sort of topic is,
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
and another I enjoy that might has some crossover into that topic that I really enjoy:
It would seem so: Adrian Carton de Wiart was by all accounts such a person. Despite sustaining terrible injuries in the war, spending time as a prisoner of war, and killing dozens if not hundreds of enemy personnel in the Boer War and both World Wars, he seemed to be a happy, well adjusted, completely normal individual... other than the fact he was a near-immortal killing machine on the battlefield.
He is famously quoted as saying: "Frankly I quite enjoyed the war," and was described by his peers as "a delightful character who must've held the world record for bad language."
He went on to marry, raise a family, write his memoirs, travel the world, and die peacefully at the age of 83, seemingly without ever having suffered any mentally illnesses from his time in service.
>rural Germany didn't have blacks or asians back then
DO I have a book for you. I read this a couple years ago. It's about a black kid who was in Nazi Youth. (click the link to see a fascinating photo) His dad was an African businessman who worked with Germany on metals and other natural resources. This boy died in Los Angeles a few years ago and an article was printed in the LA Times which made me aware and prompted me to check the book out of the library. Great book.
Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany - Amazon.com
Relative to Bosnia. Try this, Kagame interviewed about why they couldn't bring them all to justice, not least because a very large number were parked in refugee camps in the DRC. The story of the Rwandans closing those camps is pretty horrific too.
Then do you favor a One State Solution with the Right of Return granted to Palestinians who were forced from their homes and whose land was stolen?
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Brothers-Dramatic-Palestinian-Christian/dp/0800793218
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families is a great read about tribalism and the causes and events of the Rwandan Genocide. Long title but great book.
In Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman anthropologist Marjorie Shostak describes that it is common for !Kung marred men and women to "take lovers" and have extramarital sex, albiet clandisnedly.
I read the book for a cultural anthropology class and was able to geturn the book afterwards for a full refund, so I no longer have it to cite page numbers, but I recall that there's an entire chapter on the subject.
Not a big reader, hey? Right above the title in the Human Rights Watch report appears the date: March 25, 2009 10:00AM EDT.
It literally could not be further up on the page, aside from the Human Rights Watch logo.
When was the last time Hamas killed 91 people at once? Jews murdered people in their homes, mutilated their bodies, and paraded mutilated bodies in the streets, and this is OK because it happened in the formative years of the Jewish state? This is the same mentality that excuses the genocide of the native peoples of the North American continent because "America is Great" or some other such frothing-at-the-mouth Nationalistic nonsense.
I'm going to assume you didn't listen to the This American Life episodes either. It's tough to engage Israel supporters, they seem to have the same zeal as Trump supporters and the same lack of introspection and critical thinking skills.
Some Europeans and Russians showed up in boats to somewhere they had never been and stole a bunch of land by force, and murdered a lot of people. This has caused immense conflict and suffering ever since. Previously, Jews Christians and Muslims had all lived in the region peacefully. Read the book "Blood Brothers" by Elias Chacour.
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Brothers-Dramatic-Palestinian-Christian/dp/0800793218
Their claim to the land was based on "Divine Right" which is entirely bullshit. Yahweh isn't a real-estate agent and the former Kingdoms of Israel and Judea are historical phenomena that offer no legitimacy to the modern Apartheid state of Israel.
I do find it telling that you can dismiss war crimes so easily though. This is very typical of Israel supporters I've interacted with in the past. Non-Jewish suffering doesn't count, no?
I can't believe no one has mentioned this.
There is is a very famous black German, who unfortunately recently died named:
Hans-Jüren Massaquoi, he grew up in Nazi Germany and even wanted to join the HJ Hitlerjugend and the Wehrmacht later on, he was rejected.
This is him:
And this is his book:
I can really recommend it with all my heart, if you're into history and maybe a different view on life and that time. It's highly addictive and one of the best books I have read.
You probably should read some literature on child soldiers and how they are 'conscripted' and how they are forced to fight in wars. I recommend A Long Way Gone (a memoir of Ishmael Beah an ex-child soldier) and They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children (by Romeo Dellaire).
One method is to use their culture against them, as in they will force you to kill your mother or else they will kill all you or your brother. Then they are taught to believe they are not wanted anymore and they will be killed by their own tribe. This has parallels with gang recruitment. Once this stuff happens in order to reverse this behaviour you need to retrain the individual and attempt to reverse the mindset that they are soldiers or the like and not locking them up in prison.
> Especially babies are very weak in human beings. Rape could not have been the primary reproductive strategy, otherwise males would reproduce and run, and leave their offspring to die.
Could it also be that, if rape were a primary means of procreation, that a single human male would be overwhelmed by the sheer number of children that he fathered?
>This is a simplified illustration of this as some could argue rape was very important. But if you have language and jealousy rapists would be killed off fairly quickly by the group. But coerced sex by males has always existed. Sex where males pay the females to have extramarital sex with them. And sex were older males force themselves on their young partners. This is something we would call rape today, but it is pretty common and would barely be considered as force or something bad 10.000 years ago. Read the book Nisa, to read about "rape" in hunter-gatherers and how they explain it.
Thanks for the reference, I'll have to check it out if I get the chance! Just to be sure I got the correct one, you mean this one right? http://www.amazon.com/Nisa-Life-Words-Kung-Woman/dp/0674004329
If you're interested in this topic, I'd recommend reading An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina for a first-person account of the genocide.
Well, I don't think that Tolkien had any interest in making his creation explicitly a pre-historic tale of our world / Europe. If I recall correctly, he stated that it was a creation myth for England, something that never were, but might have been. I don't know where I read that, maybe in his biography by Carpenter.
But it is quite obvious that his own experience influenced him. Since he was English, and he created something "from the past", it is only natural that whatever he created was influenced by his NW-european / english past past.
A really good book about the genocide, def recommend to anyone We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
If anyone wants a perspective of what it was like to be a child growing up during the civil war in Sierra Leone check out the book "A Long Way Gone." Crazy crazy stuff you don't hear much about.
I'm reading this right now...I'm only about halfway through, but I'd definitely recommend it.
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families is a mouthful for a title, but a really sad and fascinating investigation of the Rwandan genocide.