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@archeohistories Made up nonsense. German soldiers were starving because there were no supplies coming in.

German Officers Smirked at American Rations, Until They Tasted Army That Never Starved - On December 17, 1944, deep in frozen Ardennes Forest, a German officer opened a captured American ration box and stopped believing what he had been told. Oberführer Klaus Dietrich had seen men starve in Russia, France, and now Belgium. He knew what hunger did to soldiers. It hollowed their faces. It made them quiet. It made them stare too long at dead horses. His own men were already carrying that look. But captured Americans sitting in ditch were different. They were cold. Bruised. Angry. Frightened. But they were not starving. That was first thing Dietrich hated about them. His aide, Krueger, had found the boxes near a pine tree. Olive drab. Waxed against moisture. Cleanly stamped in English. K RATION Supper unit. One of German officers laughed weakly. “American food comes in gift boxes.” Dietrich tore one open. Inside was a can of meat. Biscuits. Chocolate, Coffee powder, Cigarettes, Gum & Sugar. Even toilet paper, folded neatly like some cruel little joke. No one laughed after that. The men edged closer without meaning to. Not soldiers now. Hungry men. Dietrich opened the meat with his knife and smell rose into freezing air. Real meat Not grey scraps. Not fat. Not the bitter substitute meals his men had been swallowing for weeks. A soldier behind him swallowed so loudly everyone heard it. Dietrich looked toward American prisoners. One young corporal watched him with a bruised cheek and cracked lips. He did not look ashamed. He looked annoyed. As if Germans were touching his property. That angered Dietrich enough to take a bite. The meat was cold, but salt and fat spread across his tongue so suddenly that his body betrayed him. For one shameful second, he wanted more. Krueger opened a packet of coffee and sniffed it. “Real,” he whispered. Dietrich turned on him. “Real what?” “Coffee, Herr Oberführer.” The word moved through clearing like an obscenity. Real coffee. Issued to an ordinary American infantryman in a frozen forest. Dietrich walked to the prisoners with the ration box in his hand. “You eat this every day?” he asked. The corporal stared at him. “When we can get it,” he said. “Always?” “Sometimes C rations. Sometimes hot chow.” Dietrich froze. “Hot?” American looked past him at the starving German soldiers clutching little boxes of food. “Yeah,” he said. “You know. Food.” That was when Dietrich understood something he did not want to understand. This was not softness. This was a system. And it had arrived in the snow before the Americans even fired another shot. By nightfall, Dietrich had captured rations laid out on a farmhouse kitchen table like evidence from a crime. Chocolate, Cheese, Coffee, Cigarettes, Gum. Every item labeled. Every box protected from damp, cold, panic, and stupidity. He stared at neat little packages while German wounded groaned in barn outside and the thought that came to him was so dangerous he had to write it down carefully. He did not write that Americans were lucky. He did not write that they were spoiled. He wrote that their army treated comfort as a weapon. Then he stopped, because sentence frightened him. Across the table, Krueger broke a piece of captured chocolate and put it in his mouth. For one second, his face changed. Not like an officer. Not like a Nazi. Like a hungry boy remembering Christmas before shortages, before the slogans, before war had eaten everything sweet. “They send this to privates,” Krueger said quietly. Dietrich looked at the opened boxes. “Yes.” “Not officers. Not hospitals. Privates.” “Yes.” Outside, wind pressed against farmhouse walls. Somewhere upstairs, a loose shutter banged again and again, like a weak heartbeat. Then a guard brought in one of captured Americans. He saw rations on table. And this time, when he looked at Germans, there was something worse than hatred in his eyes. Pity. © Seeking The Light #archaeohistories

@Duke_Branson @__lilith666 Every religion is made up nonsense.

@__lilith666 Head to the Middle East and tell em. Come back and tell me how that went for you

Telling a child that they will burn in heII if they don't believe in your religion is a psychological abuse.

@_InfoGram_ “become” - dude’s always been a clown.

This is HILARIOUS 😂 Monday: 🇺🇸Iran has nothing left. Wednesday : 🇺🇸Iran has 10% of missiles left. Friday : 🇺🇸Iran has 20% of missiles left. TRUMP has become a global laughing stock ⚡

@PaulM325 @kirilloid_ru @NoContextBrits “Amazing” is stretching it a bit…

@kirilloid_ru @NoContextBrits Wetherspoons do amazing burgers with a pint of beer for under £10 👍

When Five Guys won’t let you franchise.

@NoContextBrits Nah, I like to completely take over six seats with a table 😎💪

The best seat on a train.

@Jamie_Hudson_ @AmosMurphy_ The fuck are you on about?!

Note to English media outlets, that's what a proper tifo looks like.

@highbrow_nobrow @atrupar Observing what counts as politics in lesser developed countries, will never not be funny 😁

Trump on Nobel Prize: "Obama got a prize for doing nothing. Obama got a prize, he didn't even know what he got it -- he got elected and they gave it to Obama for doing absolutely nothing but destroying our country.." @atrupar (2025)

@StateDept I feel so privileged having been born in the developed world, only in lesser developed countries l, especially shitholes such as the US would a monkey like him, ever have a serious position, let alone be president:

PRESIDENT TRUMP: The German chancellor is doing a terrible job. He’s got immigration and energy problems, and a problem with Ukraine. He criticized me for Iran, so I asked him, “Would you like Iran to have a nuclear weapon?” He said no. I said “Well then, I guess I’m right."

@krassenstein The US was founded by European residue. Religious nutters and criminals.

WTF!!! Fox News: "This is May 1st. In communist countries around the world, it's May Day" FACTS: May Day is not just a “communist countries” thing. May 1 is widely observed around the world as International Workers’ Day or Labour Day. It is NOT accurate to imply that May Day only belongs to communist countries. It is a public holiday or major labor day in many non-communist democracies, including places like: - Germany - France - Italy - Spain - Sweden - Norway - Finland - Mexico - Brazil - South Africa - India - Japan

@Sextuple_winner @iMiaSanMia I’m with you on that! Manuel is the best ever, but he also needs to understand, that he’s not 25 anymore.

@iMiaSanMia Should start vs PSG as well if we want to progress

Kompany: "Jonas Urbig will start tomorrow"

@FootyHumour That & kiddie fiddling 💪

Burnley’s first training session:

@FootyHumour A small, American owned business. Arsenal are tinpot.

He “scanned” 35 times… just to pass it backwards 😭

@TheFootyFeed Neither of these shitters on display tonight are winning the Champions League vs. Bayern or PSG.

Typical Arsenal 🤣

@racingblogger Fuck off. And neither of the clowns on show tonight are going to win the Champions League.

A CHAMPIONS LEAGUE ROBBERY!! DON'T EVER TELL ME ARSENAL DON'T GET CHEATED EVER AGAIN!! 🤬🤬🤬 A STONEWALL PENALTY & WE'VE BEEN ROBBED!!

happy 11 days to those who celebrate

@RobertJMolnar As someone who won the lottery of life, the US is not a fully developed country.

this actually happened this is not AI wtf are we doing folks

@TheRealJamieKay Massive “YES” 🫶

Egg, sausage and bacon. Yes or no?

@asenciismo Absolute tinpot.

@Lavozgalactica Fuck off you little cunt.

El Bayern es como ese colega que te gana en el FIFA después de 20 partidas.

@joshsbruder Tinpot

„Bayern owned the Bernabeu“ meanwhile this was the Allianz when things werent going their way