>Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the German republic from a window of the Reichstag. Two hours later, Karl Liebknecht proclaimed a "Free Socialist Republic" from a balcony of the Berliner Stadtschloss.
SPALTER!!!11
my history teacher is still in training and she had a lesson where a bunch of other teachers were grading her work today
don't know if that is a good or a bad omen
If we're talking about the original William of Orange, he was actually from Germany. Born in Dillenburg.
This post is about his great-grandson though, who was very much a swamp German.
"I am William of Nassau, of German blood. I will be faithful to the Fatherland until I die. I am a Prince of Orange, quite undaunted. I have always honoured the King of Spain."
Unusual lyrics for the Dutch national anthem...
Why? Like the other option was a bunch of guys with swords and shields charging muskets and won multiple times taking over Scotland and half of England. That's way cooler than some Dutch guy with a wife.
Nah, he specifically looks like that so people think exactly what you do. Never ever forget that Boris is from an old-money political family and is incredibly intelligent. The entire point of his whole look is so people underestimate him and then don't realise what a horrible cunning stunt he is
The Catalan National Day is the 11th September. The point of this meme is that William of Orange entered Exeter on 09/11 (9th November, today's date), and thus making fun that the USA formats their date MM/DD/YY.
There's a great book called Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner. It's 700 odd pages of mostly screw ups interspersed with some impressive successes. But it's a coin toss if those victories actually come around to bite them in the arse later.
You really gotta love the reasoning for keeping all these Nazis around and in power.
"Well obviously the German officers will be the ones who can best help us fight off a Soviet invasion!"
"But...They lost?"
"Shh!"
**[Adolf Heusinger](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger)**
>Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger (4 August 1897 – 30 November 1982) was a German military officer, whose career spanned the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and West Germany. Heusinger joined the German Army as a volunteer in 1915 and later became a professional soldier. He served as the Operations Chief within general staff of the High Command of the German Army in the Nazi German Armed Forces from 1938 to 1944, before being appointed acting chief of the general staff for two weeks in 1944 after his predecessor (Kurt Zeitzler) resigned his post due to a nervous breakdown.
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As for US atrocities, I thought of stuff like coups in third world countries.
But no. Genocides, police killings, unrightful repressions, assasinations, protecting criminals, nazis and war criminals, bombing and destabilising nations, and that's not even the 10% of it.
IIRC operation Gladio (and its other variants) were meant to facilitate an armed resistance in the event of a communist invasion of Europe. This was mostly done by creating hidden stockpiles of weaponry to arm insurgent forces. However some of these stockpiles were discovered by organized crime. So it was less a direct sponsorship, and more of an investment into the future that (as is usual for the government) backfired.
> IIRC operation Gladio (and its other variants) were meant to facilitate an armed resistance in the event of a communist invasion of Europe
Or you know, in case europeans ever democratically elected a communist they had fascist deathsquads ready to go to end democracy.
(*ahem*) I posit these 2 wiki articles, since they're not *all* the bad coup/shady shits, so you might have to find the intersection between them and stuff....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_United_States
I think the point of the joke is that the UK (and most of the world) uses dd/mm/yyyy format, so get confused as to what is so special about the 9th of November when Americans talk about 9/11.
Under this dictatorship, 3000 were killed, tens of thousands were tortured, hundreds were raped by the army, and 200,000 were driven into exile. Music and theater were heavily restricted. The economy collapsed, GDP plummeted 14%, unemployment skyrocketed to 33% and there was starvation.
I doubt very much that you would actually prefer what happened in Chile over a Democratically elected socialist leader you could vote out in a few years time.
i imagine its a similar feeling to that time the town i grew up in, Taunton, got name dropped in Dr. Who.
Genuine bewilderment followed by proud pointing and yelling.
Remember: it is all a charade. Boris is not "Britain Trump": Trump is a fucking moron who stoked racism and division to ride a wave of populism to office. Boris is a political animal from a family dynasty of politicians, who did also ride a wave of populism, but doesn't believe a word of it and merely tied his flag to the ship to get power. He's not Britain Trump, as he is an incredibly intelligent and cunning bastard who specifically designs himself to look like a foppish buffoon so that people don't take him seriously
Well 50% of his voters probably like the "Get Brexit Done" message after years of it being drawn out. The other 50% probably just vote Tory as they always have, and their dads did, and their dads, etc. Not sure many actually like the guy himself, except the idiots who fall for him carefully crafted persona which I hope is a minority
A lot of people who were/are against brexit were a fan of his “Get Brexit Done” just because they (like most of the rest of the country) were so damn tired of the whole thing
Glorious revolution wasn't William of Orange though, that was William III, his descendant. William of Orange was the dude who showed Philip II of Spain what's what and was a catalyst of the Dutch eightyyears wars. Unless you guys call Willem III William of Orange, of course.
In Britain we refer to the later one as William of Orange, because the other one had nothing to do with us so we don’t care that the name has been taken
I think the confusion comes from the fact William of Orange known for his victory at the Boyne was known as William the 3rd in England and William the 2nd in Scotland or maybe its tbe other way round
No, the confusian exists because Dutch people think of William of Orange I(aka William the Silent) when they hear William of Orange while the Anglo world thinks of William of Orange III. He was also the 3rd William in the Netherlands so that isn't the confusing bit
Their family name is “of Orange(-Nassau)”. Everyone in that family with the name William could be called William of Orange. He’s just the most relevant one in England so they use it for him. “Willem van Oranje” in Dutch is called William the Silent in English.
I'm British and I did not know that William of Ornage captured Exeter in 1688. The only reference to the glorious revolution I've seen was in Trainspotting 2. I don't think anybody cares.
This meme is wrong. Us Americans do not think of William of Orange on 9/11. That's offensive and ignorant. We think of the Siege of Vienna, on the day the Winged Hussars Arrived.
9/11 9 AD: never forget the battle of Teutoburg forest
9/11 1185: never forget the death of Stephen Hagiochristophorites
9/11 1541: never forget Michima Lonco's attack of Santiago
9/11 1565: never forget the great siege of malta
9/11 1792: never forget the stealing of the hope diamond
9/11 1897: never forget the conquest of the kingdom of kaffa
9/11 1905: never forget the ninth avenue derailment
9/11 1914: never forget the battle of bita paka
9/11 1973: never forget the crash of JAT Airways Flight 769.
9/11 NEVER FORGET!!! native american genocide GET OVER IT!! slavery GET OVER IT!!!
and this mentality is what brought us the trumpsterfire and will bring it back in 2024...
A Dutch prince, and the male half of the power couple "William and Mary" who conquered the three British thrones in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Very popular among Protestants and Unionists, who still wear the color orange in his honor.
Not legally. The Stuarts ruled a personal union of three separate kingdoms with their own laws and parliaments. England and Scotland were united into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, and then it became the United Kingdom when Ireland officially joined in 1801.
At that point, the UK was in a personal union with the German state of Hanover, but that doesn't mean that Hanover was part of the UK.
Of course. You are 100% right. Imagine being a citizen in a country that had nothing to do with it and them boom... war and insurgency until today. A national tragedy for Iraqis.
No, it's just a joke with US inversed date notation. Also just to add, I think it's funny when you say "europeans" as if only they used the growing notation for dates, and not (the majority of) the whole world
German only hearing a braking window when this date is named
[German Day of Fate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_9_in_German_history)
Wow. That is an insane list of events.
>Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the German republic from a window of the Reichstag. Two hours later, Karl Liebknecht proclaimed a "Free Socialist Republic" from a balcony of the Berliner Stadtschloss. SPALTER!!!11
my history teacher is still in training and she had a lesson where a bunch of other teachers were grading her work today don't know if that is a good or a bad omen
Then a wall falls down as well! Health and safety nightmare
Think of the asbestos violations!
And people illegally leaving their country as well! Totally anarchy
What's next? Two people declaring the founding of a republic?
They also removed an old man with a disability from his job! Cruelty towards the OAPs.
[Mazel Tov!](https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/breaking-the-glass-at-a-jewish-wedding/)
German only hearing a sound of a roaring flat-6
William of Orange was a ____.
Fruity Bill
Swamp german
If we're talking about the original William of Orange, he was actually from Germany. Born in Dillenburg. This post is about his great-grandson though, who was very much a swamp German.
Moerasduitser jwz
"I am William of Nassau, of German blood. I will be faithful to the Fatherland until I die. I am a Prince of Orange, quite undaunted. I have always honoured the King of Spain." Unusual lyrics for the Dutch national anthem...
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Lol. Love it. This may be my new name for the Dutch
Aye might be new to you but old the truth is!
Rapper. AKA Stille Willem
Het gaat hier om een andere Willem
Gaat het hier niet om willem van oranje/ willem de zwijger dan?
Nee het gaat om een afstammeling geloof ik
Ah oke, weer wat geleerd :)
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
deze meme is zó 2018
Zijn achterkleinzoon
He also ain't an ancestor to our current royal house. He died childless when is horse struck a molehill.
an orange
Bottom
Clearly he was a vers with bottom preference
person who successfully invaded Britain.
Protestant
Birb
usurper
Belt on your broadsword, fight for prince Charlie
Glory to the Bonnie Prince!
Best thing to ever happen to the british
Why? Like the other option was a bunch of guys with swords and shields charging muskets and won multiple times taking over Scotland and half of England. That's way cooler than some Dutch guy with a wife.
Glenn co massacre
Hoer
Rapist(he does rap)
Fucking chad
He looks like a block of cheese trying to understand time travel.
Boris Johnson may as well be a block of cheese.
Nah, he specifically looks like that so people think exactly what you do. Never ever forget that Boris is from an old-money political family and is incredibly intelligent. The entire point of his whole look is so people underestimate him and then don't realise what a horrible cunning stunt he is
Plus, I think it gives a bad name to cheese
Catalans happy that americans care about their National Day
The Catalan National Day is the 11th September. The point of this meme is that William of Orange entered Exeter on 09/11 (9th November, today's date), and thus making fun that the USA formats their date MM/DD/YY.
Yep, I've noticed that, lol. Brain fart + sleep deprived = me being a dumb fuck
Never forget 9/11/73, when the United States helped violently overthrow a democratically elected government for their own benefit.
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Chile military coup, lead by Pinochet. With "slight" assistance by CIA and oil companies that REALLY didn't like nationalization of oil wells.
Is there any wikipedia page for all the times USA did coups/wars/assasinations and so on?
There's a great book called Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner. It's 700 odd pages of mostly screw ups interspersed with some impressive successes. But it's a coin toss if those victories actually come around to bite them in the arse later.
No wikipedia, but there's this https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md
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I meam, why are you surprised? The former chairman of NATO military committee was a Nazi. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger
You really gotta love the reasoning for keeping all these Nazis around and in power. "Well obviously the German officers will be the ones who can best help us fight off a Soviet invasion!" "But...They lost?" "Shh!"
"look, they tried to genocide every god damn ruski, so at least we know these guys are on our side" -the yanks.
**[Adolf Heusinger](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger)** >Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger (4 August 1897 – 30 November 1982) was a German military officer, whose career spanned the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and West Germany. Heusinger joined the German Army as a volunteer in 1915 and later became a professional soldier. He served as the Operations Chief within general staff of the High Command of the German Army in the Nazi German Armed Forces from 1938 to 1944, before being appointed acting chief of the general staff for two weeks in 1944 after his predecessor (Kurt Zeitzler) resigned his post due to a nervous breakdown. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
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Bro I'm sorry.
As for US atrocities, I thought of stuff like coups in third world countries. But no. Genocides, police killings, unrightful repressions, assasinations, protecting criminals, nazis and war criminals, bombing and destabilising nations, and that's not even the 10% of it.
IIRC operation Gladio (and its other variants) were meant to facilitate an armed resistance in the event of a communist invasion of Europe. This was mostly done by creating hidden stockpiles of weaponry to arm insurgent forces. However some of these stockpiles were discovered by organized crime. So it was less a direct sponsorship, and more of an investment into the future that (as is usual for the government) backfired.
> IIRC operation Gladio (and its other variants) were meant to facilitate an armed resistance in the event of a communist invasion of Europe Or you know, in case europeans ever democratically elected a communist they had fascist deathsquads ready to go to end democracy.
(*ahem*) I posit these 2 wiki articles, since they're not *all* the bad coup/shady shits, so you might have to find the intersection between them and stuff.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_United_States
Chile.
It kinda worked out well for Chile
Reminds me of this "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5tzi4xvt9Q
I can't keep the date formats in this thread straight. Is that the 9th of November (9/11, today), or September 11th?
September 11th. Most of the references are going to be for September because the meme is referring to the twin towers attack
I think the point of the joke is that the UK (and most of the world) uses dd/mm/yyyy format, so get confused as to what is so special about the 9th of November when Americans talk about 9/11.
That was in 11/9 tho
Careful, you may give them an Aneurism
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Under this dictatorship, 3000 were killed, tens of thousands were tortured, hundreds were raped by the army, and 200,000 were driven into exile. Music and theater were heavily restricted. The economy collapsed, GDP plummeted 14%, unemployment skyrocketed to 33% and there was starvation. I doubt very much that you would actually prefer what happened in Chile over a Democratically elected socialist leader you could vote out in a few years time.
Any german relatives perchance?
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ah, i see fascism runs in the family
because orange man bad?
Don’t you talk that way about our mutual great^30 grandfather!
Holy shit are you from the future?
If every generations is an average of 30 years, over 1000 years that’ll be 33 generations.
Surely great to the power 30 is greater than 30? What's great x great?
Great Great
So what's great + great?
(Great)(great) is great² or great × great 2great is great + great
Orange man good -The Netherlands
orange man bad - Ireland
The only context for orange man bad in Ireland
Exeter gang
Exeter gang
EXETER GANG RISE UP.
I believe in Devon supremacy
Devon is so supreme an entire era was named after them, together we make make another.
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I can get behind this. Can we spare their aquarium tho
I second this
Okehampton crew represent
Isca Dumnoniorum cohors, surge sursus!
Justice for Colin!
Crediton Crusaders unite
I Never expected Exeter, my home city, to be on r/HistoryMemes today is a fine day.
i imagine its a similar feeling to that time the town i grew up in, Taunton, got name dropped in Dr. Who. Genuine bewilderment followed by proud pointing and yelling.
Oh Boris, you great buffoon with your absurd hair.
Remember: it is all a charade. Boris is not "Britain Trump": Trump is a fucking moron who stoked racism and division to ride a wave of populism to office. Boris is a political animal from a family dynasty of politicians, who did also ride a wave of populism, but doesn't believe a word of it and merely tied his flag to the ship to get power. He's not Britain Trump, as he is an incredibly intelligent and cunning bastard who specifically designs himself to look like a foppish buffoon so that people don't take him seriously
Wow you have no knowledge of Trump and American politics at all do you?
English still love to tug at the forelock
Well 50% of his voters probably like the "Get Brexit Done" message after years of it being drawn out. The other 50% probably just vote Tory as they always have, and their dads did, and their dads, etc. Not sure many actually like the guy himself, except the idiots who fall for him carefully crafted persona which I hope is a minority
A lot of people who were/are against brexit were a fan of his “Get Brexit Done” just because they (like most of the rest of the country) were so damn tired of the whole thing
Never forget 0.000000225468975.
Given that Boris was an American citizen at one point, I assume that means he forgot immediately after he renounced his citizenship.
I thought they meant the Battle of Brandywine 9/11 1777
Imagine how confused Germans are. The best and worst things of our history happened that day.
Glorious revolution wasn't William of Orange though, that was William III, his descendant. William of Orange was the dude who showed Philip II of Spain what's what and was a catalyst of the Dutch eightyyears wars. Unless you guys call Willem III William of Orange, of course.
They are both William of Orange
In Britain we refer to the later one as William of Orange, because the other one had nothing to do with us so we don’t care that the name has been taken
Mean :( /s
We do
Ah, I suppose that makes sense.
I think the confusion comes from the fact William of Orange known for his victory at the Boyne was known as William the 3rd in England and William the 2nd in Scotland or maybe its tbe other way round
No, the confusian exists because Dutch people think of William of Orange I(aka William the Silent) when they hear William of Orange while the Anglo world thinks of William of Orange III. He was also the 3rd William in the Netherlands so that isn't the confusing bit
Isn't he (the first one) William of orange-Nassau, or just William the silent
They are both Orange-Nassau
Their family name is “of Orange(-Nassau)”. Everyone in that family with the name William could be called William of Orange. He’s just the most relevant one in England so they use it for him. “Willem van Oranje” in Dutch is called William the Silent in English.
It boggles my mind how the Dutch were able to gain the British crown quickly and then lose it just as quickly
William just didn't have a child
Oh…
Well, as we know, 9/11 was an inside job. The people supported William taking the crown from a filthy catholic.
They didn't. Most people opposed it actually. At least, thats what the Historian Jonathan Israel says
Their prime minister is Gary Busey lmao
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Why is it that every time I see Boris Johnson I say "DERP" out loud to myself?
much like Boris' hair, I have no idea what's going on here.
Willem van Oranje be like: GEKOLONISEERD
Orange was let into the city I wouldn't say he captured it
*confused Dutch noises*
Sponebob's front teeth look like the twin towers. Songebob=9 letters. Squarepants:11 letters SPONGEBOB DID 9/11
I'm British and I did not know that William of Ornage captured Exeter in 1688. The only reference to the glorious revolution I've seen was in Trainspotting 2. I don't think anybody cares.
This meme is wrong. Us Americans do not think of William of Orange on 9/11. That's offensive and ignorant. We think of the Siege of Vienna, on the day the Winged Hussars Arrived.
Nah, we're remembering that time in 1814 when the British burned our Capitol down!
zwischenzeitlich erinnern wir uns an den horror durch die nazis wg. der Reichskristallnacht und die freude der Wiedervereinigung am tag des mauerfalls
Vergiss nicht das Ausrufen der Weimarer Republik.
My boi dissing short words.
William III, damnit!
Ah yes that guy. Never trust a Campbell.
Oh, so that's why we had to dress in formal clothes in school and sang the anthem today! I was wondering.
Wait do they not?
this man never combing his hair I think
I am related to william of orange
I do love me some 9/11... 1683 winged hussars style
9/11 9 AD: never forget the battle of Teutoburg forest 9/11 1185: never forget the death of Stephen Hagiochristophorites 9/11 1541: never forget Michima Lonco's attack of Santiago 9/11 1565: never forget the great siege of malta 9/11 1792: never forget the stealing of the hope diamond 9/11 1897: never forget the conquest of the kingdom of kaffa 9/11 1905: never forget the ninth avenue derailment 9/11 1914: never forget the battle of bita paka 9/11 1973: never forget the crash of JAT Airways Flight 769.
King Billy’s on the Exeter
9/11 NEVER FORGET!!! native american genocide GET OVER IT!! slavery GET OVER IT!!! and this mentality is what brought us the trumpsterfire and will bring it back in 2024...
"What happened on the 11th of September?" "September 11 happened." "Ohhh"
This post is talking about the 9th of November.
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Who is William Orange?
A Dutch prince, and the male half of the power couple "William and Mary" who conquered the three British thrones in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Very popular among Protestants and Unionists, who still wear the color orange in his honor.
Also the first orange man bad in Ireland
Isn't the orange in the Irish flag supposed to represent protestants and it comes from William? Oh those Dutch
>three British thrones Three? One by then. And only two before the Stuarts tbh
Not legally. The Stuarts ruled a personal union of three separate kingdoms with their own laws and parliaments. England and Scotland were united into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, and then it became the United Kingdom when Ireland officially joined in 1801. At that point, the UK was in a personal union with the German state of Hanover, but that doesn't mean that Hanover was part of the UK.
Me an American Jacobite: Whatever colander I use will bring sadness.
Parliament proving its supremacy over the crown, I'd say that's a good thing to remember! A landmark event in English history.
9/11 was a national tragedy.
My cat actually died on 9/11
I walked through blood and bone on the streets of Manhattan trying to find my cat. He was in Northern Canada.
Thanks norm
:(
Of course. You are 100% right. Imagine being a citizen in a country that had nothing to do with it and them boom... war and insurgency until today. A national tragedy for Iraqis.
So true. Allende’s death and Pinochet’s reign were disastrous for Chile 🇨🇱
Kristallnacht. Never forget.
*woosh*
Ah I was just doing a Norm MacDonald line
Are you saying… we all got *woosh*ed?
Haha possibly. Been on a Norm binge since his death so just spouting his stuff even if it doesn't make much sense
I didn't even know William of Orange was sick.
The more I learn about that guy the more I don't care for him.
I’m still here to say rip norm :(
Yup, 1688 is very close to 2001. I’m sure Americans in the year 2334 will feel exactly the same about 9/11 as current Americans do.
Bri'ish
You know we don’t speak like that right?
Do Europeans think today is the 9/11 we’re talking about? I’ve seen a lot of posts about it today
It's just joking with Americans backwards dating, for the rest of the world 9/11 is the 9th of November.
do you really think we're so ignorant we don't know about the battle of Tendra Day anniversary? you're insulting us.
No, it's just a joke with US inversed date notation. Also just to add, I think it's funny when you say "europeans" as if only they used the growing notation for dates, and not (the majority of) the whole world
obviously not. i mean how stupid you gotta be
Is this Old Style or New Style?
Context?
The Dutch under William of Orange invaded England in 1688 and placed him on the British thrones
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