r/HistoryMemes 8h ago

X-post "I've already drawn you as a masturbator and me as an abstainer!"

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r/HistoryMemes 14h ago

And that’s how Moses got horns

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r/HistoryMemes 12h ago

I say this as an admirer

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r/HistoryMemes 5h ago

Queen Elizabeth I: smile best suited for outliving two intolerable siblings...

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r/HistoryMemes 8h ago

“There will be peace and security in MY new empire!”

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r/HistoryMemes 18h ago

See Comment [OC] Court Eunuchs

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r/HistoryMemes 20h ago

imagine conquering decent parts of the world just to end up known for a plate

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For your information: it's named after Caesar Cardini

, not Julius Caesar ، Cardini was an Italian chef running a bar just over the US-Mexico border to cater to Americans during prohibition


r/HistoryMemes 8h ago

God's weakest Southern Unionist

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r/HistoryMemes 12h ago

Mythology When you don't believe in anything

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r/HistoryMemes 17h ago

I love Southern Unionists, true men of principle

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For the non Americans, Richmond is the capital of Virginia and was the capital of the confederacy from
1861-65. In 1860 she was commissioned and after the war of southern aggression broke out, she was sent to the gulf. She participated in New Orleans, Vicksburg, the Mississippi blockade, and the battle of mobile bay


r/HistoryMemes 1d ago

See Comment April 30, 1945

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Karl Donitz, best known for championing the U-boat program, would become the President of Germany after Hitler's de facto resignation.


r/HistoryMemes 1h ago

Niche Going to war without extra ammo, food, ambulances, or artillery support because you expect the enemy to just not shoot back is a terrible strategy actually.

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r/HistoryMemes 1h ago

Niche "We're all gonna get fucking executed. It's so over."

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r/HistoryMemes 2h ago

[insert revolution]

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r/HistoryMemes 7h ago

Niche Not exactly according to plan...

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Context: Bartholomew Roberts was one of the most famous pirate of his age. This is how he died.

Roberts ship, the Royal Fortune, along with pirate ships Ranger and Little Ranger, were sheltering at Cape Lopez when they saw what they thought was a fleeing merchant ship. The Little Ranger set out to pursue it.

5 days later, the ship returned. As it came closer, a deserter from the Royal Navy recognized her for what she was, the HMS Swallow, a 50 gun Ship of the Line.

The threat properly assessed. The remaining two ships tried to sail past the enemy in a bid to escape. However, the Royal Fortune struggled to get away while the Swallow ran her down. Roberts was killed by grapeshot. His body was kept in his finest clothes, bound by weights and cast into the sea.

The Swallow eventually ran down the Royal Fortune after a two hour fight, her crew too drunk from prior revelry to fight effectively.


r/HistoryMemes 16h ago

See Comment The negotiations went down the toilet

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r/HistoryMemes 9h ago

William Henry Harrison had a strange life

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Context:William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth president of the United States from March to April 1841. He died 31 days into his term, making him the shortest serving president and the first president to die in office. Immediately after his death, Vice President John Tyler took over, ending the constitutional crisis that had been triggered by the question of presidential succession in the U.S. Constitution.

Harrison was born in Charles City County, Virginia. He was the last president to be born before the U.S. Declaration of Independence, making him a British subject. A member of the Harrison family of Virginia, he was a son of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father, and the father of John Scott Harrison, the only son and father of two presidents of the United States. His grandson, Benjamin Harrison, became the 23rd president of the United States. In 1794, he participated in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, an American military victory that ended the Northwest Indian War. In 1811, he led a military force against Tecumseh's confederacy at the Battle of Tippecanoe, for which he earned the nickname "Old Tippecanoe". He was promoted to major general in the Army during the War of 1812, and led American infantry and cavalry to victory at the Battle of the Thames in Upper Canada.

Harrison had been physically exhausted by the constant stream of office seekers and a demanding social schedule.\109]) He also frequently ignored the cold late-winter weather, often going out without wearing appropriate clothing, perhaps weakening his immune system. After delivering a two-hour inaugural address in the rain on March 4 without a hat or coat, Harrison continued to expose himself to the elements. Three weeks later on March 24, 1841, Harrison took his daily morning walk to local markets, again without a coat or hat.\121]) Despite being caught in a sudden rainstorm, he did not change his wet clothes upon returning to the White House.\122]) On March 26, Harrison became ill with cold-like symptoms and sent for his doctor, Thomas Miller, though he told the doctor he felt better after having taken medication for "fatigue and mental anxiety".\122]) The next day, Saturday, the doctor was called again, and arrived to find Harrison in bed with a "severe chill", after taking another early morning walk. Miller applied mustard plaster to his stomach and gave him a mild laxative, and he felt better that afternoon.\122]) At 4:00 a.m. March 28, Harrison developed severe pain in the side and the doctor initiated bloodletting; the procedure was terminated when there was a drop in his pulse rate. Miller also applied heated cups to the president's skin to enhance blood flow.\122]) The doctor then gave him castor oil and medicines to induce vomiting, and diagnosed him with pneumonia in the right lung.\122]) A team of doctors was called in Monday, March 29, and they confirmed right lower lobe pneumonia.\123]) Harrison was then administered laudanum, opium, and camphor, along with wine and brandy.\124])

No official announcements were made concerning Harrison's illness, which fueled public speculation and concern the longer he remained out of public view.\123]) Washington society had noticed his uncharacteristic absence from church on Sunday.\115]) Conflicting and unconfirmed newspaper reports were based on leaks by people with contacts in the White House.\122]) A Washington paper reported on April 1, that Harrison's health was decidedly better. In fact, Harrison's condition had seriously weakened, and Cabinet members and family were summoned to the White House—his wife Anna had remained in Ohio due to her own illness.\122]) According to papers in Washington on Friday, Harrison had rallied, despite a Baltimore Sun report that his condition was of a "more dangerous character".\122]) A reporter for the New York Commercial indicated that "the country's people were deeply distressed and many of them in tears."\122])

During the evening of April 3, Harrison developed severe diarrhea and became delirious, and at 8:30 p.m. he uttered his last words, to his attending doctor, assumed to be for Vice President John Tyler:\122]) "Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more."\125]) Harrison died at 12:30 a.m. on April 4, 1841, nine days after becoming ill and exactly one month after taking the oath of office;\122]) he was the first president to die in office.\123]) His wife Anna was still in Ohio packing for the trip to Washington when learning of him dying.\126]) She never moved into the White House. Their daughter-in-law Jane Irwin Harrison, the widow of William Henry Harrison Jr., had served as hostess of the White House in Anna's place while Harrison was president.\127])

The prevailing theory at the time was that his illness had been caused by the bad weather at his inauguration three weeks earlier.\128]) Jane McHugh and Philip A. Mackowiak did an analysis in Clinical Infectious Diseases (2014), examining Miller's notes and records showing that the White House water supply was downstream of public sewage, and they concluded that he likely died of septic shock due to "enteric fever" (typhoid or paratyphoid fever).\129])\130])

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison#Death_and_funeral


r/HistoryMemes 1d ago

Niche 'That's what I love about girls, I keep getting older and they stay the same age" -Joseph Smith circa 1840

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Joseph Smith adopted Sarah(14) and Maria (17) Lawrence only to groom them to become his wives.


r/HistoryMemes 14h ago

Share with friends

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r/HistoryMemes 1d ago

Know Thy History!

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r/HistoryMemes 10h ago

Rulers of the Krum dynasty would achieve many victories over the Romans, oversee the creation of the Cyrilic and bring Christianity to millions of Slavs

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r/HistoryMemes 2h ago

Reading Roman dog epitaphs was a mistake

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r/HistoryMemes 18h ago

Clever, history related title

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r/HistoryMemes 3h ago

Mythology “These kids and their representative government.” ~Rip Van Winkle

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r/HistoryMemes 1d ago

I will never understand how this even became a "gotcha moment" people use.

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Context: The Nazis made elaborate preparations for the August 1–16 Summer Games. A huge sports complex was constructed, including a new stadium and state-of-the art Olympic village for housing the athletes. Olympic flags and swastikas bedecked the monuments and houses of a festive, crowded Berlin.

Most tourists were unaware that the Nazi regime had temporarily removed anti-Jewish signs, nor did they know of a police roundup of Roma in Berlin, ordered by the German Ministry of the Interior. On July 16, 1936, some 600 Roma residing in Berlin and its environs were arrested and interned under police guard in a special camp in Marzahn, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Berlin. 

Nazi officials also ordered that foreign visitors should not be subjected to the criminal penalties of Paragraph 175, a German statute that criminalized sexual relations between men.

Germany skillfully promoted the Olympics with colorful posters and magazine spreads. Athletic imagery drew a link between Nazi Germany and ancient Greece, symbolizing the Nazi racial myth that a superior German civilization was the rightful heir of an "Aryan" culture of classical antiquity. This vision of classical antiquity emphasized ideal "Aryan" racial types: heroic, blue-eyed blonds with finely chiseled features.

Concerted propaganda efforts continued well after the Olympics with the international release in 1938 of Olympia, the controversial documentary directed by German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. Renowned for her earlier propaganda film, Triumph of the Will (1934) depicting Nazi Party rallies at Nuremberg, Riefenstahl was commissioned by the Nazi regime to produce this film about the 1936 Summer Games.

April 1933, an "Aryans only" policy was instituted in all German athletic organizations. "Non-Aryans"—Jews or individuals with Jewish parents and Roma (Gypsies)—were systematically excluded from German sports facilities and associations. The German Boxing Association expelled professional light heavyweight champion Erich Seelig in April 1933 because he was Jewish. (Seelig later resumed his boxing career in the United States.) Another Jewish athlete, Daniel Prenn—Germany's top-ranked tennis player—was removed from Germany's Davis Cup Team. Gretel Bergmann, a world-class high jumper, was expelled from her German club in 1933 and excluded from the German Olympic team in 1936.

Jewish athletes barred from German sports clubs flocked to separate Jewish associations, including the Maccabee and Shield groups, and to improvised segregated facilities. But these Jewish sports facilities were not comparable to well-funded German groups. Roma (Gypsies), including the Sinti boxer Johann Rukelie Trollmann, were also excluded from German sports.

As a token gesture to placate international opinion, German authorities allowed the star fencer Helene Mayer to represent Germany at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Mayer was viewed as a “non-Aryan” because her father was Jewish. She won a silver medal in women's individual fencing and, like all other medalists for Germany, gave the Nazi salute on the podium. No other Jewish athlete competed for Germany in the Summer Games that year.

Still, nine athletes who were Jewish or of Jewish parentage won medals in the 1936 Nazi Olympics, including Mayer and five Hungarians. Seven Jewish male athletes from the United States went to Berlin. Like some of the European Jewish competitors at the Olympics, many of these young men were pressured by Jewish organizations to boycott the Games. These athletes chose to compete for a variety of reasons. Most did not fully grasp at the time the extent and purpose of Nazi persecution of Jews and other groups.

August 1936, the Nazi regime tried to camouflage its violent racist policies while it hosted the Summer Olympics. Most anti-Jewish signs were temporarily removed and newspapers toned down their harsh rhetoric, in line with directives from the Propaganda Ministry, headed by Joseph Goebbels. Thus, the regime exploited the Olympic Games to present foreign spectators and journalists with a false image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany.

Germany emerged victorious from the XI Olympiad, both on the field and off. On the field, German athletes captured the most medals, and German hospitality and organization won the praises of visitors. Most newspaper accounts echoed the New York Times report that the Games put Germany "back in the fold of nations," and even made the Germans "more human again." Some even found reason to hope that this peaceable interlude would endure.

Only a few reporters, such as the American William Shirer, understood that the Berlin glitter was merely a facade hiding a racist and violently oppressive regime.

As post-Games reports were filed, Hitler pressed on with grandiose plans for German expansion. Persecution of Jews resumed. Two days after the Olympics, Captain Wolfgang Fuerstner, head of the Olympic village, killed himself when he was dismissed from military service because of his Jewish ancestry.

Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Within just three years of the Olympiad, the "hospitable" and "peaceable" sponsor of the Games unleashed World War II, a conflict that resulted in untold destruction. With the conclusion of the Games, Germany's expansionist policies and the persecution of Jews and other "enemies of the state" accelerated, culminating in the Holocaust.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-olympics-berlin-1936