WarCommons

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by WarCommons 2mo ago
"It" does not imply that the Romans used it, in the context of the article and analysis that is about WWII (and not ancient Rome). Reading and writing an article doesn't stop at the first sentence you encounter.
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by WarCommons 2mo ago
I apologize and I won't do it again! I thought this article was a good fit for critical thinking.
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by WarCommons 2mo ago
Thanks you for reading it! And yes, my audience gets what 'it' means!
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by WarCommons 2mo ago
Interesting insight, thank you for sharing!
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by WarCommons 2mo ago
Thank you for reading, and it's great to see that you share the exact same conclusion as the article does at the end!
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by WarCommons 2mo ago
Fair point, thank you for reading the article!
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by WarCommons 2mo ago
Thank you for your tip! I'll take it to heart and improve my writing. But I do stand by my wording. As calling it the Roman Salute is genuine. Just Google it. But, more important I never stated that it was used in ancient Rome. The lin
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by WarCommons 2mo ago
Yes it did begin in ancient Rome. I beg to differ in the poorly written part. I think it's more a misunderstanding of what the argument is. Or better said, what "it" is. Because it did start in ancient Rome. The link started
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by WarCommons 2mo ago
That's a valid take, I agree with you!
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by WarCommons 2mo ago
You can call me Nick! And that's also part of the article. Maybe my wording was a little bit unfortunate, but I never stated this was actually used in ancient Rome. It's traceable through the painting you're referring to and
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The Hitler Salute Was Never German(warcommons.com)
10 points by WarCommons 2mo ago|25 comments
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by WarCommons 2mo ago
On May 10, 1933, over 25,000 books were burned in Berlin in front of the State Opera. But the campaign started with students, not the SS. And Goebbels joined at the last minute, for reasons that had nothing to do with ideology. The real sto
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by WarCommons 3mo ago
While Europe was focused on Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia, someone else was watching closely. He supplied weapons to Ethiopia. Not to help them win, but to make the war last longer. The Second Italo-Abyssinian War gave Hitler exactl
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by WarCommons 3mo ago
The Germans gave it a nickname. That alone tells you everything. Sixteen rockets. Ten seconds. Then silence. By the time you knew where it came from, it was already somewhere else. The story of the Katyusha — and why German troops called it
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by WarCommons 3mo ago
A general predicted it would be over in four days. It lasted 73. The airfield they captured was never used for a single major operation. The island had almost no strategic value. And some Japanese soldiers kept fighting until 1947. The full
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by WarCommons 4mo ago
Germany spent months applying a special coating to every tank it produced. It was designed to stop a specific weapon. The problem? Only Germany used that weapon. The strange story of Zimmerit. The anti-magnetic tank coating that never had t
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by WarCommons 4mo ago
He was bullied as a child for rumors about his Jewish ancestry. He grew up in a musical family. He had a promising naval career. Then everything changed. The complete story of Reinhard Heydrich — the man Hitler called "the man with the
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by WarCommons 4mo ago
In 1935, Britain signed a secret naval deal with Hitler. France found out after the fact. The agreement was signed on the 120th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. That date was not a coincidence. The story of how the Anglo-German Naval
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by WarCommons 4mo ago
An estimated 200,000 children were taken from their families in Poland alone. They were measured, assessed, and given new names. The ones who passed were handed to German families who often had no idea where the children had come from. This
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by WarCommons 4mo ago
The Tokyo Trials prosecuted Japan's wartime leaders for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. But evidence with no signature could be admitted. The laws they were convicted under barely existed when the crimes
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by WarCommons 5mo ago
350,000 people in hiding. 30,000 railway workers who walked off the job overnight. A student who dyed her hair black to keep fighting. The Dutch resistance during World War II is one of the most overlooked stories of the entire conflict. It