With the exceptions of geothermal, tidal, and wave energy, all forms of energy we use are just deferred solar.

That is really interesting. Speaking of the werewolf teams, which I believe were the idea of Otto Skorzeny (I could be wrong), there were a few instances where allies found cables strung across the road intended as a trap for jeep crews. This lead to them placing posts at the front of the jeep such as this one.

I love seeing these kinds of things. Does anyone know if there’s a subreddit or an Instagram account that posts these historical/modern comparisons?

Does your second paragraph imply that these could be civilians who were hiding in the basements when houses were blasted?

I feel like as a sole civilian person, may not be a great idea to go digging straight down in berlin.

Your grandfather took part in a historically significant battle. White phosphorus grenades and flamethrowers were also used. The allies used AP rounds to shoot through floors and ceilings and would make a dash to the top floor of a building and work their way down— forcing the Germans into a basement. The allies found it safer to shoot bazooka rounds and use explosives to blast entryways known as "mouse holing". This lesson was learned and applied later by soldiers engaged in urban combat in Vietnam— even today as noted in the Baghdadi compound raid.

The German force holding the city was about 18,000 strong. Some of the personnel used as infantry were originally Kriegsmarine intended to crew U-boats (funny how history rhymes, given the use of Navy crews by Russia).

Some things are changed, but wow. That’s kinda unreal.

Imagine if we had markers for every place someone died. That'd be wild.

Or the flip side. Take a terrible history and change and grow, like Germany.

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There are a lot of reasons why they don't make it that way anymore and what you see standing is survivorship bias. Dollars, life of building, and cost of life all play into the changes. Construction used to have formulas for how many people would die per $1,000 spent on different types of construction.

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After the occupation their mayor was assassinated by a werewolf commando. Their aim was to make Germans afraid to collaborate with the Allies but this stands out as one of the few actual, successful missions they undertook.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Oppenhoff

One of my favourite factoids about Aachen is how the Nazis tried to remove the enormous bronze gates of the Aachen cathedral (cast around the year 800), among other relics, to get them out of allied hands. But the gates were too well built in and they had to give up.

Powerful... I hope for no more war.

They actually issued field manuals for the use of captured enemy weapons. The use of the weapon would assume the ammo is captured also.

Plenty on Brandenburg gate!

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulaner_(Berg) Mont Klamott/Insulaner, just added this because I love this name.

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Yeah fuck history, glad we put up a fight against their regime!

Probably not common. Needed different ammo and you need training for each guns peculiarities.

Graffiti

No way! I literally walked down that street earlier this year!

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This gave me chills.

They literally don't make stuff like they used to. The house we rent is just about 100 years old and the chain link fence posts are original. The clay (!) pipes that run the sewer to the municipal system only failed 3 years ago.

(I'm glad we rent a hundred year old house because that fix cost our landlord like 30K lol)