2nd WW2 Cumulative History Quiz

[steviejay]

McArthur was a Brigader General during WW1 iirc

 

[Adler17]

It was Truman, who wanted to invade Germany and let so fire until the cease fire was in force.

Adler

 

[Dragonlord]

Adler is right, it was Harry S. Truman - there was something about this on the strange historical facts thread here a while ago...

 

[cidknee]

grrrrrr.... i should have known that...ive got books upon books on ww1 and ya think id find anything in em....MEH!

 

[nonconformist]

It was Truman, who wanted to invade Germany and let so fire until the cease fire was in force.

Adler

Correct! and for a bonus point, what was a strange coincidence of this man in both wars?

 

[cidknee]

didnt he fire the last shots...well he ordered the atomic bombs dropped so technically he fired ( ordered fired) the last shots of both world wars

 

[Adler17]

Okay, and here is my question:
All carriers of the Knight´s cross with Oak Leaves, swords and Brilliants are dead. The last carrier of the Pour le mérite, however, the highest Prussian order until 1919, survived them all. Who´s his name?
Hints: He died in 1999. Also he got the Bundesverdienstkreuz.

Adler

 

[nonconformist]

didnt he fire the last shots...well he ordered the atomic bombs dropped so technically he fired ( ordered fired) the last shots of both world wars

You're right, have a bonus point!

 

[cidknee]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy... my life is complete!!!.... well no i still need conquests and cant find it ANYWHERE!... but im happy.. i was stressing about that... couldnt remember who it was.... ( the first part)

and i thought this was ww2 quiz? meh who cares....


Shabelskiy Ivan P??

edit... as of jan 15 my life is complete.. conquest has arrived.. I found it in my local EB games! YAY

 

[Adler17]

No Idea? Another hint. The one I search was also philosopher and wrote books, the most famous is about ww1.

Adler

 

[FriendlyFire]

No Idea? Another hint. The one I search was also philosopher and wrote books, the most famous is about ww1.

Adler

The only famous book on WW1 from the german side
All quiet on the western front.

 

[HolyEmperor]

The only famous book on WW1 from the german side
All quiet on the western front.

actually, Erich Maria Remarque (the writer) died in the 1970's, if I remember well on 1970.

 

[Adler17]

Well, the last hint, because it seems to be too difficulty though:
The book I meant is called: Stahlgewitter.
Now I think that´s a penalty.
Go, get it.

Adler

 

[nonconformist]

Sort of semi-googled this one: Ernst Junger.

 

[Adler17]

Finally. You´re lucky, nonconformist, that I forgot yesterday to solve the question. However, it is you turn. The question was harder than expected, because Jünger is quite famous.

Adler

 

[dgfred]

Finally. You´re lucky, nonconformist, that I forgot yesterday to solve the question. However, it is you turn. The question was harder than expected, because Jünger is quite famous.

Adler

Give us some lurking material on Junger and the question so we don't have
to google too .

 

[privatehudson]

Maybe he's famous in Germany but I don't believe I've ever come across his name.

 

[Adler17]

Jünger was a German philosopher. Shortly before ww1 he went to the French to became a mercanary. That was "shocking" in the francophob Germany of that time. However his father brought him back. In ww1 he became a German officer who was credited with the Pour le mérite by taking a French MG nest on a decisive hill. After the war he became a very conservative philosopher and literate. He wrote "in Stahlgewittern" which is however describing ww1, but not as cruel as "Im Westen nichts Neues" by Remarque. When Hitler arose he joined the Wehrmacht but soon the differences were too big. IIRC he was credited with some stuff but became a civilian shortly after the outbreak of the war. It is said that he had also contacts to the resistance. After the war he became an idol of the ´68 revoluzzer although he never became a real left literate. However he turned to the left a bit during his later years. He was also credited with the Bundesverdienstkreuz, the highest civilian German order. He wore later both, Pour le mérite and the Bundesverdienstkreuz. Both order are hanging aound the neck and not at the breast.
He died as last carrier of the Pour le mérite (wartime) in 1999 at the age of 104.

Adler

 

[nonconformist]

Okay......I pass to anyone who want it

 

[Serutan]

Eisenhower was not authorized to communicate directly with
the Soviet political leadership. Yet in spring 1945, he communicated directly with Stalin regarding where the Allies
and Red Army should meet. How did Ike justify this?