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Band Of Brothers in Paris 

Tweeted by Doug Spain 

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here's the link to light a candle. each new light is for a different person -- their name, birthdate and place (if known), and age upon death will be presented to you before lighting.

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hi pals! i have complied an epic list of war/war-related films and series that i have either watched or want to watch. given current circumstances, i hope this finds you in good health and will help you combat boredom at home. i will try my best to let you know where you can watch these, but if not you might just have to do a little digging yourselves! just a heads up, some titles are super war concentrated while others briefly mention the war, but are still what i consider to be “war-related”, and i will try to let you know which ones are, so don’t be mad at me :) 🎞=movie //📺=show // 📽=miniseries or limited series 

world war i

🎞 1917

🎞 war horse

🎞 beneath hill 60

🎞 passchendaele

🎞 all quiet on the western front

🎞 testament of youth (amazon prime)

🎞 private peaceful

🎞 the lost battalion (youtube)

🎞 they shall not grow old

📽 gallipoli (amazon prime)

📺 the crimson field (bbc one)

📽 ANZAC girls (amazon prime)

📽 our world war (bbc) (SO GOOD PLEASE WATCH SOMEHOW)

📽 the passing bells (bbc one)

📺 parade’s end (crave tv)

📽 when we go to war (amazon prime)

interwar

📺 babylon berlin (german)(netflix)(takes place during 1929 germany, with slight relations to WW1, but not about war)

world war ii

🎞 saving private ryan (amazon prime)

🎞 unbroken

🎞 hacksaw ridge (netflix)

🎞 dunkirk

🎞 jojo rabbit

🎞 the boy in the striped pajamas

🎞 fury (netflix)

🎞 inglorious basterds (netflix)

🎞 stalag 17 (youtube)

🎞 midway

🎞 pearl harbor

🎞 under sandet (land of mine)(german)

🎞 au revoir les enfants (french)(youtube)(takes place during WW2 but not explicitly about war, still very good)

🎞 thin red line

🎞 atonement (amazon prime)

🎞 where hands touch (amazon prime)

🎞 schindler’s list

🎞 the book thief (war-related)

🎞 warsaw 44 (polish)(amazon prime)

🎞 life is beautiful (italian)

🎞 enemy at the gates (amazon prime)

🎞 glorious 39 (amazon prime)

🎞 ashes in the snow (amazon prime)

🎞 europa europa (polish)

🎞 kamienie na szaniec (stones for the rampart)(polish)

🎞 the longest day

🎞 a bag of marbles (french)(war-related)

🎞 monsieur batignole (french)(war-related)

🎞 empire of the sun

📽 les grandes grandes vacances (the long long holiday)(french)(war-related)

📽 catch-22 (hulu)

📺 world on fire (bbc one/pbs)

📽 the pacific (crave tv/hbo)

📽 band of brothers (crave tv/hbo)

📽 generation war (german)

📺 x company (netflix—canadian)(cbc)

📽 SS-GB (bbc one)

📺 land girls (bbc one)

📽 the plot against america (crave tv)

📺 bomb girls (global)

📽 résistance (french)

🎞 swing kids (war-related)

postwar

📺 the man in the high castle (amazon prime)

🎞 the aftermath (amazon prime)

🎞 a royal night out (kind of war-related, takes place on VE Day)

!Tip: try searching the name of the movie + google drive, it should work about half the time. ex: war horse google drive

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1944 - Snowball the cat tries to take over a machine gun in Normandy so she can shoot some Nazis herself.

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one thing I’ve noticed while running an online shop is that Americans never include their country when writing their address.

I don’t mean when filling in online forms, bc that’s obviously a required element. but when emailing me for address changes for orders, they never include a country in the updated address. but I always know the country is the United States of America because literally nobody else around the world would do that.

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feminine urge this masculine urge that let’s stop being weird about gender online for a second and focus on what’s important

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not all of it is bad i think….…. we are going to be okay i think.

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remember to breathe

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me: ah yes! let’s start doing this cool thing, and this new hobby, and this book, and this movie, and languages, and —

me, 2 days later: bed

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okay but waking up in the middle of the night to soft rain and knowing you’ve got hours to sleep, when you’re toasty warm and comfortable and sleep has made you forget all your worries and you go back to sleep feeling as content as ever.

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museum studies goofs, 2/?

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creepy and wet major alignment chart

edit: added a few more majors

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‘Rear Window’ by Jordi Huisman

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This weekend I was schmoozing at an event when some guy asked me what kind of history I study. I said “I’m currently researching the role of gender in Jewish emigration out of the Third Reich,” and he replied “oh you just threw gender in there for fun, huh?” and shot me what he clearly thought to be a charming smile.

The reality is that most of our understandings of history revolve around what men were doing. But by paying attention to the other half of humanity our understanding of history can be radically altered.

For example, with Jewish emigration out of the Third Reich it is just kind of assumed that it was a decision made by a man, and the rest of his family just followed him out of danger. But that is completely inaccurate. Women, constrained to the private social sphere to varying extents, were the first to notice the rise in social anti-Semitism in the beginning of Hitler’s rule. They were the ones to notice their friends pulling away and their social networks coming apart. They were the first to sense the danger.

German Jewish men tended to work in industries which were historically heavily Jewish, thus keeping them from directly experiencing this “social death.” These women would warn their husbands and urge them to begin the emigration process, and often their husbands would overlook or undervalue their concerns (“you’re just being hysterical” etc). After the Nuremberg Laws were passed, and after even more so after Kristallnacht, it fell to women to free their husbands from concentration camps, to run businesses, and to wade through the emigration process.

The fact that the Nazis initially focused their efforts on Jewish men meant that it fell to Jewish women to take charge of the family and plan their escape. In one case, a woman had her husband freed from a camp (to do so, she had to present emigration papers which were not easy to procure), and casually informed him that she had arranged their transport to Shanghai. Her husband—so traumatized from the camp—made no argument. Just by looking at what women were doing, our understanding of this era of Jewish history is changed.

I have read an article arguing that the Renaissance only existed for men, and that women did not undergo this cultural change. The writings of female loyalists in the American Revolutionary period add much needed nuance to our understanding of this period. The character of Jewish liberalism in the first half of the twentieth century is a direct result of the education and socialization of Jewish women. I can give you more examples, but I think you get the point.

So, you wanna understand history? Then you gotta remember the ladies (and not just the privileged ones).

ask historicity-was-already-taken a question

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we went feral over the amazing devil lyrics, now we're feeling tender and yearning

my entire life it's running away too fast, watching everyone I've ever loved walk past // never really quite getting the knack of knowing no one will not ever come back for you

but I held your hand, as you shook in the middle of the night // without waking you said, not yet not yet

love run // for all the things we wish we'd done // run from all you know that's coming // run to show that love's worth running to

she laughs as though she's not heard the joke ten thousand times before // and he adores her

and he holds her close // just to keep the world at bay

I've seen enough, he says, I know exactly what I want // and it's this life that we've created, inundated with the fated thought of you

dear heart, it's me // it's me // you don't need to pretend to be someone you're not

with you I could summon the gods and the stars

and now at the end, at the end of all things // I'm not going to scream, beat my chest at the wind // I'm doing fine

'cause when it's cold, I'll wrap my scarf around you // and when it's hard, I'll place your head into my hands

you're the thigh high hemline I just can't stop staring at

you're not flawed darling, you're just a little under-rehearsed

and now, even though you're mad, and these memories won't stay, that's okay // 'cause now I get to meet you for the first time every single day

you're the one who asked me if i'm feeling okay // I said I'm fine // it's just a sitting down in the shower day

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scrolling through my blog and coming to the bi-yearly realisation that i cannot stick to any schedule/promise i have made on this blog ever.

other side of this thrice-cursed coin: getting hella motivated to start posting again

#another realisation: #idk if its bc im dutch #but looking back at my posts #i write so weird?? #its like a weird combination of dutch grammar and proverbs #plus very fancy and old-fashioned english #the joys of being multilingual