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There's another aspect to the sheer insanity of the period that probably would be worth exploring, if only it were possible. People were so mentally numbed and
by funAtParties 8y ago
There's another aspect to the sheer insanity of the period that probably would be worth exploring, if only it were possible.
People were so mentally numbed and damaged by the carnage of the first world war, that the second world war was put on track by the leadership that had survived the carnage.
But looking at engines like this, and knowing that they ran on leaded AvGas, and knowing that leaded mechanization was the norm, you wonder if the psychotic leadership was actually an expression of lead poisoning from environmental factors. Just like all those crime curves that trend according to leaded gasoline bans, what if front line WWI veterans were driven psychotic by frontline exposure to heavy metals through exhaust fumes?
- mc32 8y agoRommel, IIRC, was initilly just one of those kids carrying spades as pretend arms (ok exaggerating a bit). People like him were not near a front during the first war. Hirohito’s men were in some conquest wars, but not heavy wars. So I’m not sure this applies.
- ethelward 8y ago> Rommel, IIRC, was initilly just one of those kids carrying spades as pretend arms I beg your pardon? IIRC is a poor excuse when a ten seconds Wiki search proves you wrong. He was a frontline lieutenant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel#World_War_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel#World_War_I
- mc32 8y agoMy bad, you’re right, i was thinking the idle times spent in Dresden.
- willyt 8y agoQuite a large area of France is still so heavily contaminated from WW1 that there is still an exclusion zone in place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge