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Questions related to aspects of World War II (1939-1945 AD). An international conflict whose major participants were the fascist countries of Germany, Italy, and Japan engaged against the allied nations of the UK, France, China, the USSR, and the USA. The conflict began with the German invasion of Poland and formally ended with the American victory over Japan.
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What was the ideological and philosophical underpinnings of World War II?
WWII was an ideological conflict between different imperial power blocs within international capitalism, and in a few instances with colonised powers with local bourgeois who wished to be imperialist. …
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Why were Red Army Officers and soldiers not prosecuted for War Crimes in WWII?
1) The Soviet Union had a functional system for trying their own troops. Euromaidan claims the official statistics support 2.5 million Soviet citizens tried (http://euromaidanpress.com/2018/05/15/sovi …
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Tito's partisans loyalty
USA National War College ascribes the cause as mastery of Engels, and through Engels a mastery of Clausewitzian warfare. I think that is a more than little dubious as it comes down to "Nothing succee …
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What does the forward "Bullnose" of a Bailey Bridge that is under construction look like?
I believe the "launching nose" is meant. http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2012/01/uk-military-bridging-equipment-the-bailey-bridge/
Regarding the nose specifically, from the above site:
http://farm8.st …
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The role of the two world wars in the evolution of Fordism
Fordism is widely accepted outside France and isn't restricted to regulation theory. It pops up, independently in marxist industrial sociology (Johnson-Forest / Braverman) as the concrete results of …
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Parable of the broken window and 1929 crisis
Bastiat is wrong. Utilitarianism, the idea of subjective valorisations of utility as opposed to price, has been rejected because it is fundamentally incoherent: subjective utilities are incommensurab …
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Where can I find digitised versions of Japanese war documents in original Japanese?
Your first port of call is the public archives of the victors, particularly the records of military trials:
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C11603634
http://discovery.na …
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What was the purpose of Nazi extermination camps?
Goldhagen (Hitler's Willing Executioners), while drawing controversial conclusions, uses standard evidence. Goldhagen's evidentiary basis matches what I've read in Police Battalion studies, for examp …
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Was Japan really part of the Axis?
German racialism was historically flexible enough to accomodate pro-Chinese and pro-Japanese reconfigurations. Japan did not attack the Soviet Union as it was manifestly not in the interests of Japan …
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Could you help me identify this photograph that was taken shortly after World War 2?
It is the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
Check the wall pattern and light:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IMTFE_court_chamber.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mil …
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Why wouldn't an ASDIC work immediately after a depth charge attack?
The quote may be referring to the physical systems implementing ASDIC. Shock and vibration shielding are major issues in naval architecture. Insufficiently shock shielded systems may have required mai …
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Why did Japan never "apologize" enough for World War 2?
Eastern Germany re-organised itself as an affiliate (disputed 1953, 1989) of Soviet foreign policy. Soviet ideology dictated that human social organisations were not inhering in national identity (St …
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How do functionalists explain the fact that Holocaust continued until the very end of the war?
My understanding is that both schools are "broad" interpretive frameworks. The obvious deficiencies of "intentionalism" are clear—we can clearly demonstrate the plurality of emergent genocidal conduc …
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Does Japan have the constitutional and legal right to have its own army or navy?
Formally, Japan has no right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Constitution#Debate
Substantively, the Japanese state has taken such a right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_S …
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Did the Germans lose the U-Boat war in World war II because of a shortage of quality, rather...
If you look at ace sinking by year you'll find that aces could only develop their sink counts during "happy times," when a technical and doctrinal superiority favoured mass sinkings. These times ofte …
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