He didn't even use the word surrender but rather the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
She really didn't care if he was the most powerful man in the country3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
They said that America would switch to the metric system because by then most of the world already did3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
It's pretty weird why they would include those jokes in those cartoons3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/memes
The Generals were already there before, taking in the details of France3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Leni Riefenstahl, director of the Triumph of the Will, reacts as Polish civilians are shot by German soldiers 1939 [936 x 634]3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father, with fellow soldiers 1915-1916 [939 x 1536]3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
She really supplied him with all the money and support to become an artist3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Then Princess Juliana of the Netherlands with Kaiser Wilhelm II. Doorn 1938 [884 x 489]3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
They were afraid that if the Allies lost, then their money in those countries would never come back3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Wilhelm I. made a fuss about being called German Emperor instead of Emperor of Germany3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
The Ems Dispatch kinda led to that war Bismarck wanted to unify Germany3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
He unified China and also did a lot of messed up things, and he was remembered mostly as a tyrant especially since later dynasties followed Confucianism, while he was staunchly against it2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Stalin liked to betray a lot of people, including the poorest like the peasants3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Martin Luther wrote some very unsavory things about Jews in 2 of his later works.2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
A Hindenburg election poster from 1932, saying Stop with Hitler's Incitement of Hatred! He would later appoint Hitler Chancellor in 19333yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/europe
Ein deutsch-judischer Veteran, Richard Stern, Mitte, tragt sein Eisernes Kreuz, wahrend ein SA-Mann vor seinem Laden steht 19333yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/de
German Embassy in Stockholm with flag at half-mast for the death of Hitler3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/europe
Their disguise was quite bad, he could recognize Louis by looking at a banknote3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Queen Victoria's funeral procession, among them King Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the Duke of Connaught 1901 [800 x 614]3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Hitler and other Nazis visiting Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides 1940 [640 x 966]2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
I'm talking about borders from after WW1 till 1937. Czechoslovakia and Poland both got net territorial losses and were behind the Iron Curtain until 1989, while Austria got a short Allied occupation till 1955.2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
The French Declaration of War against Austria in 1792 that officially started the War of the First Coalition2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/europe
On this day, 1888, Emperor Frederick III died after reigning for only 99 days3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/europe
The Dismissal of Bismarck 1890 US showing Germania and Bismarck worried while Wilhelm plays with Socialism3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
Kaiser Wilhelm II and his court dressed up in clothes from the era of Frederick the Great pre-1914 [1280 x 853]2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Can't find the similarity tbh other than that its shape is somewhat similar3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/memes
It worked out so perfectly that an entire continent became embroiled in war3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Even many people at the time saw Leopold II for who he was, a monstrous and abhorrent human being2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
She was the grandmother of the King of the UK, Kaiser and grandmother-in-law of the Tsar3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
I know no parties anymore, I know only Germans! 1914 Germany Kaiser Wilhelm II is extending his hands to the workers to symbolize unity3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
On this day 150 years ago, the German Empire was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/europe
It is estimated that 15-55 million people died from 1959-1961 due to famine in China3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
He was also the guy who refused the crown from the gutter or the proposal to make him Emperor2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Lasting 3 years as Chancellor in the Weimar Republic was considered a long time3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Many people (especially in Europe) thought of war as a cleansing3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
It would last a grueling 140 days, with heavy casualties on both sides3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
He was a devoted husband to Victoria and father to his children, and to an extent, did the duties of the monarch, despite being a consort2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Many Germans also saw him as a deserter for fleeing to the Netherlands3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Stop Hitler's rabble-rousing now! Choose Hindenburg 1932 Germany3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
Romania also got occupied but eventually got the lands they wanted after Austria-Hungary collapsed3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
And he had to flee to London because he was hated that much by the revolutionaries. On the contrary, his wife sided with the revolutionaries and was offered to even be a regent.2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
He basically went: How can you expel me from the chamber if there is no Parliament sitting?3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Bismarck couldn't use his threatening of resignation card to the stubborn Wilhelm II2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
Ein Plakat von 1920 zum Gedenken an die deutsch-judischen Soldaten des 1. Weltkrieges3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/de
He literally had 0 reasons to hate the Jews. Plus the majority of people who bought his postcards pre-WW1 were actually Jews3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
The process was called mediatisation and it basically merged small states into a larger state, while allowing the former rulers to keep their titles2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
One of the main problems with him ruling Russia was that he didn't want to rule Russia, but rather a small duchy near Denmark2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
The Raczynski Palace at Konigsplatz, the place where the Reichstag Building was built, with the Brandenburg Gate to the right and in the background, the rest of Berlin 1880 [2560 x 1651]3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The Imperial Decrees 1890 Germany Kaiser Wilhelm II is giving workers more rights after strikes, and shows an ideal social Empire like he wanted3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
People in front of Buckingham Palace after the declaration of war 1914 [800 x 547]3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
He called it very loud and noisy, without artistic merit, because I wrote it without warmth and without love. He started in October 1880 and took 6 weeks to write it.2yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
His cousin overthrew him in Afghanistan and installed an autocratic regime and later one-party rule of the National Revolutionary Party. His cousin was eventually overthrown and assassinated in the Saur Revolution of 19782yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
The German Empire won more Nobel Prizes for Science than any country during it's 47 years of existence3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
On this day, 1934, Hitler's 3 day-long purge of his political opponents, the Night of the Long Knives, begins, ex-Chancellor von Schleicher and SA leader Rohm would be among the dead3yr ⋅ ericprogramming ⋅ r/europe
