re: What fascinates you concerning WW2?

Also, Eugenics are incredibly fascinating.

Not the forced genocide, but the other side of it. Taking super strong beautiful women and mating them with super strong, handsome men.

Voluntary Eugenics would be a cool fricking program and I'm sure lots of people would participate for financial incentives. We could stretch the realm of possibilities of man.

Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky have children. Usain Bolt and fastest woman. Etc.

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The guys were eating amphetamines like candy.

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At the time there wasn't much experience with the downsides. Everyone thought they were just fine, much like the previous generation played around casually with radium and heroin.

Lots of our current understanding of what is dangerous got that way after lots of people died and someone realized "Hey, maybe it isn't such a good idea to wear radium makeup so I'll glow in the dark at the party."

How worldwide it really was. And how deep it went into everyday American life.

Growing up with Vietnam and the Gulf Wars... our daily lives here didn't change hardly at all.

My dad was on leave during WWII in his tiny, tiny hometown in south Louisiana... He was about to walk around the corner to the store when his mom told him that it was too hot to wear his full uniform, so to make her happy he went out without his tie and cap. He said he got about half a block when a jeep pulled up out of nowhere and an officer jumped out to scream at him for being out of uniform. He never knew who that guy was or what the hell he was doing in a town of a thousand people.

The allies developed a super weapon, being the atom bomb, which helped end the war in the Pacific. Interestingly enough, this weapon gave birth to Japan's own super weapon. Unfortunately its development was dependent on the prior use of the atom bomb and thus could not help Japan in ww2.

What fascinates me is that it is a modern war without missiles (for the most part).

The war featured some incredible stories of human daring. Missions and battles took place in WWII that would not be as "romantic" if fought using current technology

Biplanes sinking battleships, bombs skipping on the water like tossed stones destroying dams, Doolittle's raid, and many more would not have the same human element if they were fought using current tech.

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I'm pretty convinced Hitler was a latent homosexual.

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Nah.

His personal doctor was injecting him with all kinds of weird shite on the reg so he could take Eva to pound town

He had a penchant for young women

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This.

I'm pretty convinced Hitler was a latent homosexual.

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I think this is likely. However, its not like homosexuality caused him to be a monster.

When I visited his Eagles Nest, the guide mentioned that Hitler had his top guards stay over in his quarters.

But I don't believe there is proof of anything, just a lot of hints and speculation.

I think he was born without empathy. He had love and sympathy for his mother, but absolutely zero empathy. (definition of a psychopath) He was smart, a psychopath, latent homosexual, failed at what he loved (art), and incredibly creative. Bad combo.

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Ummm, because he couldn't get it up for a woman?

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No, because he wanted to be a beast in the sack. The daily drug cocktails he was on definitely affected his weiner functions.

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What does that tell you? It tells me that even 70 years ago, blanks knew this was the number 1 place in the world. It was true then and is true today despite that fact being lost on about 3 generations.

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