Miscellaneous

[Louis]

1935, the then Germany's Minister of War, .Gen. Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg (1878/1946), poses for Swedish sculptor Gustav Adolf Hedblom (1898/1972).

 

[Louis]

German officers study maps in a military academy, 1935.

 

[Gunner]

"And this is where the pub is where I met that attractive fräulein."

 

[steve]

"And this is where the pub is where I met that attractive fräulein."

.....and this is my planned route of retreat from meine frau.....

 

[Louis]

They had no idea what was being ventured...
During the Anschluss of 1938, Viennese salute Adolf Hitler.

 

[Louis]

Argentine Army in the 40s. Sympathy for the German government was notorious.

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[Louis]

Reenactments maybe?
Member of the Spanish Falange (or Spanish Phalanx) in Burgos.
I had to look up what the "Spanish Falange" was, something like the "Made in Spain" version of fascism. In other words, it was a party that would embody the principles of fascism in Spain, active between 1933 and 1934.
Anyway, that Astra 900 pistol looks nice!

 

[Nathangun]

Reenactments maybe?
Member of the Spanish Falange (or Spanish Phalanx) in Burgos.
I had to look up what the "Spanish Falange" was, something like the "Made in Spain" version of fascism. In other words, it was a party that would embody the principles of fascism in Spain, active between 1933 and 1934.
Anyway, that Astra 900 pistol looks nice!

Amazing how they restore those old photos, the detail really pops out.

 

[Gunner]

The pistol made me think of a pistol in the Clint Eastwood movie "Joe Kidd" from 1972. I thought it looked so cool looking.
Great scene with him shooting things up so I researched it.

Turns out it was a Mauser C96.

"The Mauser C96 (Construktion 96) is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937.[13] Unlicensed copies of the gun were also manufactured in Spain and China in the first half of the 20th century."

Mauser C96 - Wikipedia

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[Louis]

Spanish Flu prevent in USA, 1918. (colorized)

 

[Gunner]

"The pandemic broke out near the end of World War I, when wartime censors in the belligerent countries suppressed bad news to maintain morale, but newspapers freely reported the outbreak in neutral Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as the epicenter and leading to the "Spanish flu" misnomer.

The pandemic is conventionally marked as having begun on 4 March 1918 with the recording of the case of Albert Gitchell, an army cook at Camp Funston in Kansas, United States...."

Spanish flu - Wikipedia

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