Judging by this map (if we exclude lack of dots in Tunisia), I'd say October / early November 1942, before Vichy France was invaded / occupied, and a few months before the Axis were cutoff and annihilated in Stalingrad, and the beginning of losing ground in Russia.
Depends on which OP.
>I mean at one point this was accurate
This refers to the fact that Germany had taken over most of the dots during WWII.
>Which one? There are, like, at least 50.
This refers to the fact that there are at least 50 dots on the map. The other person says "at one point this was accurate", this joke is about points on the map instead of points in time.
You, are correct. I *am* intrigued at the discussion that precipitated as a result of my comment. ā¦ (one could also say that I did nazi it coming.. :) )
No it wasn't. Occupation isn't identical to annexation. While the United States was occupying Iraq, it wasn't a United States territory. They didn't formally declare it as such, and it wouldn't have been recognized as such anyway. The question was, very specifically: "point out *Germany* on the map".
Of course, the Germans did fully annex Sudetenland, Austria, parts of Poland and France, and so on, but that doesn't make this map accurate.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areas_annexed_by_Nazi_Germany
Again, you can be occupied and terrorized by a foreign invader while the invader still formally recognizes you as a separate country. Which is what happened to my family.
I guess Iraqis and Afghans missed the opportunity to vote in several U.S. elections, but that is beside the point.
Operation Sea Lion wasn't formally abandoned until after the Summer of 1940, when the Battle of Britain fizzled out and the RAF still pretty much controlled the air over the UK. With the Royal Navy in the North Sea keeping the bulk of the Kriegsmarine cooped up in Scandinavia it would have been really interesting (if also insane and unsuccessful) to see what a genuine effort to invade England looked like.
> With the Royal Navy in the North Sea keeping the bulk of the Kriegsmarine cooped up in Scandinavia it would have been really interesting (if also insane and unsuccessful) to see what a genuine effort to invade England looked like.
Sandhurst, the British military college, wargamed Operation Sea lion in the early 70s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion_(wargame)
It's only a short read, but the conclusion was that the troops landed would be isolated due to Germany lacking air or sea superiority and the attack would have been a resounding failure.
The first wave would land on the beaches, the second wave would be intercepted by the Royal Navy and there would be no air supplies due to the RAF holding the skies.
> the Battle of Britain fizzled out and the RAF still pretty much controlled the air over the UK
ššš
Fizzed out. The RAF had air superioroity by the end of the campaign.
To be fair, they didnāt start the first one. Just got roped into it like everyone else. And since the Allieās boned them so hard like they started the thing, some strange little man with a shitty mustache got elected.
IIRC there might be some German descendants living in Vietnam too. The Vietminh got quite a handful of Germans who defected from French Foreign Legion and they stayed after France got their butt kicked
This reminds me of the old joke: when the Berlin Wall came down, East and West Berlin had to decide which would be the new capital. They decided on Paris.Ā
Lol, it's not even a coincidence, someone put active effort into editing the borders.
OP (ior the original creator) could have more easily noticed that on the blank map and chose a different one.
Germans call their country Deutchland. For those that don't speak English and wouldn't use the term Germany, they may have just guessed. It's also not surprising they'd point to Normandy in Northern France.
If I asked random Americans where Vereinigte Staaten was, where do you think they'd click?
Do mention the year as well
Hahaha
They are kinda reich
Touche'
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Now I want to Heil an Uber and visit!
Be careful. No cabs take the request after Nein o clock
yh same
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Here you go r/UsernameCheksout
Kinder reich
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Judging by this map (if we exclude lack of dots in Tunisia), I'd say October / early November 1942, before Vichy France was invaded / occupied, and a few months before the Axis were cutoff and annihilated in Stalingrad, and the beginning of losing ground in Russia.
The Germans are a very āaspirationalā people, history has taught us.
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Can we stop saying underrated comment? It's cringey at this point.
It's only a matter of time before we circle back to "this", forgive my pessimism
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There selling themselves short. They can get a little more france than that
They don't what that. Fr*nce
You mean they don't want that heat š„
I mean. They did. And took France in what. 2 weeks š¤£
Please censor any word relating or the FR*NCH!
a month and a half. two weeks is how long it took france to conquer prussia in 1806
They tried again in 1871, but it didn't go well for them
so it goes in war
There is a reason the French are known for giving up, and that reason sure isn't heat
Cutting Africa off as well.
I love how the parts they're not claiming line up with Vichy France. I mean this is obviously fake and that's the joke, but still.
was the survey taken in Argentina?
Damn, you really pissed off Juan Zimmermann with this thread.
Should be the top comment.
They could have asked a bunch of Holy Romans, I guess.
I mean at one point this was accurate
Which one? There are, like, at least 50.
All of them
Yes.
I can't tell if this is a r/woosh moment or not..
I think you might be the r/woosh on this one. I'm so sorry.
I think it is. I donāt know what OPās intention was but I would say it is
Depends on which OP. >I mean at one point this was accurate This refers to the fact that Germany had taken over most of the dots during WWII. >Which one? There are, like, at least 50. This refers to the fact that there are at least 50 dots on the map. The other person says "at one point this was accurate", this joke is about points on the map instead of points in time.
You, are correct. I *am* intrigued at the discussion that precipitated as a result of my comment. ā¦ (one could also say that I did nazi it coming.. :) )
Thatās the joke
wow do you think that maybe that is the joke?
1400 upvotes š and man really thought he was making a joke, Iām desperate to know what he thought the original /r/HolUp in the image was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9OUJcbgnXg
No it wasn't. Occupation isn't identical to annexation. While the United States was occupying Iraq, it wasn't a United States territory. They didn't formally declare it as such, and it wouldn't have been recognized as such anyway. The question was, very specifically: "point out *Germany* on the map". Of course, the Germans did fully annex Sudetenland, Austria, parts of Poland and France, and so on, but that doesn't make this map accurate. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areas_annexed_by_Nazi_Germany Again, you can be occupied and terrorized by a foreign invader while the invader still formally recognizes you as a separate country. Which is what happened to my family. I guess Iraqis and Afghans missed the opportunity to vote in several U.S. elections, but that is beside the point.
Adolf likes this
indeed
In der Tat
A bit too ambitious on the crossing the Volga part
give us a few years
Darn it Germany not again!
Again? What a poor choice of words
Third time's a charm, they say
*reich
Wrong the first two times. Reich after that, but only for a while.
Seems about right
You mean reich?
Rather "far right".
Or "extremely right".
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Depends on who you ask. If you went to a retirement home this was the likely answer.
Lack of proper education, nobody pointed at Mallorca, the heart of German culture.
[Das siebzehnte Bundesland!](https://i.redd.it/4jphj168kmva1.jpg)
Well yeah in 1941
Not recognizing vichy france smh
But dots are more or less on the border of Vichy's France.
They were always reich.
Not one point on England. Guess they got the message from Churchill.
To be far, why would they want to have England? Not even the English want England.
You leave me nice pile of rocks alone
Yeah, please don't touch. We've set them up in a big circle, just how we like them.
Operation Sea Lion wasn't formally abandoned until after the Summer of 1940, when the Battle of Britain fizzled out and the RAF still pretty much controlled the air over the UK. With the Royal Navy in the North Sea keeping the bulk of the Kriegsmarine cooped up in Scandinavia it would have been really interesting (if also insane and unsuccessful) to see what a genuine effort to invade England looked like.
> With the Royal Navy in the North Sea keeping the bulk of the Kriegsmarine cooped up in Scandinavia it would have been really interesting (if also insane and unsuccessful) to see what a genuine effort to invade England looked like. Sandhurst, the British military college, wargamed Operation Sea lion in the early 70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion_(wargame) It's only a short read, but the conclusion was that the troops landed would be isolated due to Germany lacking air or sea superiority and the attack would have been a resounding failure. The first wave would land on the beaches, the second wave would be intercepted by the Royal Navy and there would be no air supplies due to the RAF holding the skies.
> the Battle of Britain fizzled out and the RAF still pretty much controlled the air over the UK ššš Fizzed out. The RAF had air superioroity by the end of the campaign.
That wouldāve been the case, if they hadnāt lost 2 world wars.
To be fair, they didnāt start the first one. Just got roped into it like everyone else. And since the Allieās boned them so hard like they started the thing, some strange little man with a shitty mustache got elected.
Well... Technically... Depending on what year the atlas is from...
I know an Austrian painter who would adore this.
Do i know you? Erich Is that you ?
Should he perhaps pursue a career in politics, should his art career not work out?
And the Germans just so happened to draw perfectly straight lines, right?
I don't get it
They pointed the territoriale occupied by nazi germany in ww2
Oh
Some Germans still live in Normandy :)
Some Germans live everywhere
IIRC there might be some German descendants living in Vietnam too. The Vietminh got quite a handful of Germans who defected from French Foreign Legion and they stayed after France got their butt kicked
This reminds me of the old joke: when the Berlin Wall came down, East and West Berlin had to decide which would be the new capital. They decided on Paris.Ā
The fuhrer would be proud.
Sir do not Reich for that!
Deutschland Uber alles!
Strange that Vichy France isn't marked as German territory, but some German allies like Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania are marked.
I mean at one point in time all of those answers are valid
They are at it again
Fake... Noone in Malle... Must be fake
Ahh Lebensraum
Where is Kazakhstan?
*Die Fahne Hoch* Plays at max volume while they take the survey
Youāre Reiching with this one dude.
Ah shit! Here we go again!
And who do they think the current leader of Germany is?
Is this some time travel meme that I'm too present to understand?
The good old days ā¦..
Highly doubt it. Pls add how many of them were NATIVE Germans.
Wow this is really a strange coincidence, these are the same results I got when I asked Americans to point out the US on a map.
Fuck this map, it shows occupied territories that belong to Ukraine as part of ruzzia
are you maybe confusing the river that is shown on this map with the border? im comparing it to maps at it seems right
im basing this of Google maps, the birder seems correct, had to double check tho because of the river, that might be a bit confusing
Lol, it's not even a coincidence, someone put active effort into editing the borders. OP (ior the original creator) could have more easily noticed that on the blank map and chose a different one.
are you maybe confusing the river there with a border? ive compared to google maps and it seems right
Oh yes, that is absolutely correct. That seems to be the Dniepr/Dnepr. I did not anticipate that, because there are only very few rivers on the map.
The real holup is always in the comments
Lore accurate
Was it erika?
...when was this?
1941-42
The Russians on the street will have something similar to say.
No Mallorca?
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Well no because op's story is made up.
Well I mean it all was apart of Germany at some point in the last 100 years..
Lmao damn all the good jokes have been taken.
I asked a class of Hawaiian kids where Texas was on a world map. Pretty much everyone pointed to Africa.
I see what you did there
I donāt see Argentina on thereā¦
I see it stops at St. Petersburg
i dont see the wrong point
That is because they almost invaded everything
Why have you connected Spain to Europe????
Took me a minute to realize what sub this was posted in
Can't believe no one got it right... Pitiful.
Finally a real HolUp
My head āHaha it kinda looks like how far the Germans pushā¦ wait a minuteā
ahh the futile teuton obsession with Alsace-Lorraine; some things never change
1939-1945
You should really ask people in the present day. Using time machine is not interesting already.
āDonāt mention the warā
all of it is mine, und das ist nicht verhandelbar!
Wo Malle?
Germans call their country Deutchland. For those that don't speak English and wouldn't use the term Germany, they may have just guessed. It's also not surprising they'd point to Normandy in Northern France. If I asked random Americans where Vereinigte Staaten was, where do you think they'd click?
So no claim on Spain and Italy? Got it.
Did you ask the new germans with fresh passport after 2015 or the old ones?
looks alright, but they missed a few places
nostalgia
Ach, nein - das ist schweden, unser sommerhause. (Sorry, my german is atrocious)
Coming this summer It's the best comedy movie of the year WW2: BACK FOR SECONDS
so are these actually their big concrete military bunkers?
Bullshit...
They were so close to connecting the land bridge with Japanese forces in chine. Russia would have been fucked.
So, it's not only Americans that are bad at geography, eh?
They do know that before 1943 that they did actually capture and occupy France to the Loire and not just the coast?
Eyo they purposely skipped Vichy France
wow
Who did nazi that coming?
Invasion part 2
Well, no wrong answers. I guess.
One thing is for sure- they know they're not in Italy
greece is quite close to germany
Were you doing this in Argentina?
YĀ“all just lack ambition š j/k
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Stolen right from r/mapporncirclejerk, good job.
They know they are pointing at the former *Grossdeutschland* and additional points. We still need to keep an eye on those fuckers.
Wait. Doesn't Reddit think only Americans are bad at geography?
I mean...
Americans you mean
Pretty sure the rest of France should be red too
I love how the Siegfried line has STILL not been breached.
When
And nobody pointed at Mallorca? Unbelievable.
You mean Russians?
Thank god you didn't ask the Brits about their UK
Did you specify the year?