@sillygoose You might be interested in this:
After the end of WWI, Hugo Preuss proposed to reorganize Germany into 14 states:
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Hugo Preuß - Wikipedia
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However, his proposal was never actually adopted by the new Weimar German government--though after the end of World War II, West Germany did adopt a similar idea.
Short of a WW2 style fight to the end campaign in 1919 pretty close to zero. Bureaucratic inertia is powerful.@sillygoose What odds would you have placed on Prussia ever being broken up in the absence of the Nazis ever coming to power in Germany?
Short of a WW2 style fight to the end campaign in 1919 pretty close to zero. Bureaucratic inertia is powerful.
As you can tell based on this ethnic map of Romania in 1930, the most literate peoples in Romania in 1930 were Germans and Magyars (Hungarians):
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What you're saying makes me think that you dislike Jews.You mean compare the 1930 ethnic map of Romania with the one for 1941, with different borders:
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The lack of Jews in the eastern territories in 1941 is due to them either being deported en masse to Transnistria or already being murdered en masse.
What you're saying makes me think that you dislike Jews.
Some of the things you've said about "non-white ancestry" makes me think that you think that everyone who isn't "lilly white" is dumber than a box of rocks.
That is not true.
I myself am Jewish (well, a quarter-Jewish but that's the quarter that I identify with the strongest), so accusing me of being an anti-Semite is just flat-out wrong.
And what exactly did I say about non-white ancestry? I never said that there were no smart non-white people, nor did I dispute that in the US, Asians are, on average, smarter than whites are:
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Race gaps in SAT scores highlight inequality and hinder upward mobility | Brookings
Taking the SAT is an American rite of passage. Along with the increasingly popular ACT, the SAT is critical in identifying student readiness for college and as an important gateway to higher education. Yet despite efforts to equalize academic opportunity, large racial gaps in SAT scores persist...www.brookings.edu
The origins of significant figures in Art, Literature, Music and Science during three consecutive periods in Europe (1400-1600, 1600-1800 and 1800-1950):
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From Charles Murray's book Human Accomplishment.
I'd like to know where they got their data from, because it seems they undercounted German losses by quite a bit and the Russians would dispute what the Germans claimed about Soviet casualties.@sillygoose You might be interested in this map:
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It shows World War II deaths by country and by category (soldiers, civilians, Jews, and Diaspora Germans). It's in German, but I'm presuming that you can still read it.
This map shows just how harsh and brutal World War II was for the Soviet Union.
I'd like to know where they got their data from, because it seems they undercounted German losses by quite a bit and the Russians would dispute what the Germans claimed about Soviet casualties.