My Grandfathers picture-wardiary / Großvaters Bilder-Kriegstagebuch - Introduction

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English
A few months back I got the picture war diary of my grandfather. it contains about 200 pictures from the war in Poland, France and Russia. I mentioned a few times to friends of mine on twitter and facebook and they overwhelmingly said that I should bring them online somehow.
This is what I did.

We as a family decided to leave most of the texts uncommented. I will provide links to places and other facts mentioned in my grandfathers comments on the pictures. I hope to achieve a politically most unbiased point of view in our past.

I have a text about my grandfather here but I will explain it in a less poetic way.

My grandfathers grandmother, my great great-grandmother was jewish, so he was a quarter jewish.
(The answer to that is broadly discussed by the jewish community/ies. Further Information here.
As a matter of fact, her family had to report to the officials from time to time. I am not sure how long the time period was.

General explanation: The little crosses looking like this ' x ' mean that that is himself. A plus sign ' + ' usually mean that the fell.

I will explain more if it's important to understand a picture. I hope you enjoy it.

Deutsch
Vor ein paar monaten bekam ich das Kriegstagebuch meines Großvaters. Es enhält etwa 200 Fotos aus dem Krieg in Polen, Frankreich und Russland. Ich habe eben dieses Tagebuch ein paar mal erwähnt über Twitter und Facebook und fast alle haben gesagt, dass ich es online stellen sollte, gar müsste.
Und genau das ist was ich hiermit tue.

Wir haben uns als Familie dazu entschieden die Texte weitgehend unkommentiert zu lassen. Ich habe Links eingefügt zu Orten und Fakten die mein Großvater in seinen Kommentaren zu den Bilder gibt. Ich hoffe, so eine politisch uneingefärbten Blick in die Vergangenheit geben zu können. 

Ich habe einen text über meinen Großvater auf englisch hier aber ich werde seine Leben dennoch noch mal kurz erklären.

Die Großmutter meines Großvaters, meine Ur-Urgroßmutter war jüdisch also war er ein Viertel Jude. 
(Wir haben hier das Problem, dass die Frage wer ein Jude ist und wer nicht auch im Judentum immer noch diskutiert wird, dazu mehr hier. )
Ein Fakt ist, dass Familienmitglieder (wer genau und wie oft ist nicht mehr hundertprozentig nachvollziehbar) sich bei Staatsbeamter melden mussten

Grundsätzliche Erklärungen: Die kleinen Kreuzchen die wie ein ' x ' aussehen bedeuten, dass dies er selbst ist. Kleine Pluszeichen ' + ' bedeuten gefallen.

Ich werde andere Dinge erklären wenn sie wichtig sind um ein Foto zu verstehen. Ich hoffe ihr habt Vergnügen hieran.


A special thanks for inspiration, support and nice words:
Brianna Hafer, Robert Herr, Jan Ruthenberg, Aisha Khahran, Stefan Pavic, Troy Goodfellow, Patrick Chovanec, Christoph Rehage and of course my mom.

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Alle deutschen Texte mit Rechtschreibfehlern übernommen.

Diese Fotos von ihm und seinem Zug wurden aufgenommen als er den alten Fritz imitierte.
These pictures were takes of him and his Platoon him playing Frederick the Great.

Texte von von oben nach unten, links nach rechts
Texts from top to bottom and left to right

Am 27. August 1939 in Oldenburg, "der alte Fritz"
27 of August 1939 in Oldenburg "the old Fritz"

Leutnant Erich Hast war Zugführer des 3. Zuges
(Second) lieutenant Erich Hast was platoon leader of the 3rd Platoon

"Der alte Fritz" beim Abschreiten der Front
"The old Fritz" inspecting the frontlines

"Der alte Fritz" in Begleitung seined Ajudanten: Heinrich Tholen
"The old Fritz" in in company of his adjuntant: Heinrich Tholen

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Update May

Hello friends,

I am absorbed in Stellaris 1.5 and Factorio 0.15 is very nice as well.
Besides that I am running a Rimworld playthrough.

I am wondering if I could fit in either a Europa Universalis 4 or another Hearts of Iron 4 campaign.

Youtube Gamers Video Length

Most youtube let's play videos are about 15 to 20 minutes long. I decided nine month ago, mid 2016 that I am going to make 30 minutes videos in the future.

There are several reasons for that I will come to a bit later.

First of I have to clear something right away a misconception about youtube average view times.

1) It's great to have a high 'Average view duration' in the analytics tab of your channel.

2) To think that you should do 5 minutes videos because your average view time is 4 minutes and 34 seconds is wrong.

The view duration goes down if the content you produce isn't to the liking of the viewer. It doesn't matter if they watch for 10 seconds or a minute, it will pull the view duration down. If you have 30 minutes videos and you have some of these people I call “trooper” (people who watch a series, episode for episode, binging it) the view duration will go up whatever the length of your video is.

Another topic are sketches like Door Monster does it. Three to five minutes with a punch line. These aren't let's plays and the video length of those have nothing to do with the length of those.

I may be on the wrong path when I increase the length of the bite to give to the viewer. I just happen to have the time to put out 30 minutes videos per playthrough I do and I am well aware that people only watch on or at most two playthroughs of mine. At the moment that's Factorio, RimWorld and two let's plays of Stellaris, one peacefull the other isn't.

I'd argue that if someone plays only one or two similar games it might be logical to keep the videos a bit shorter. An example of this is The Loresworn Order in which case I just lack the time to watch EU4, Stellaris and CK2 and am happy if I can keep up with one.

I originally had the plan to do 40-60 minute episodes of a game I play with cutting and everything to make it actually TV like and I realised that the appeal of youtube is that it's not TV. One easily could binge or not binge or do whatever they want, which is the great success of Netflix and Amazon Prime and the others I can't remember.

On another note: I am still not sure if I should name all my episodes. At the moment all of them are numbered except the Factorio ones which have names. Usally silly ones. Does it spoiler what happens? Does it increase the click rate because people might stumble upon it?

Partial conclusion: For Factorio, 30 minutes episodes all the way all time. (I'd say the same for minecraft, you can't do anything in 20 minutes). Besides, it makes it really painfull to save scam *cough*

March 2017 - Hearts of Iron 4 - Kaiserreich mod

I am waiting for Stellaris 1.5
I just plowed through 40 episodes of Stellaris 1.4

The current games are as always Factorio and Rimworld.

Let's talk about Hearts of Iron 4 though. I am playing the Kaiserreich mod (thanks again Loresworn Order for showing it off)

Syndicalist France is living in fear of another war with the vastly superior German Empire. It's leading force of the Third International, a socialist black of two countries. So in 1936 everything in France shifts gears as the great leader Commandelicious takes command of the great nation of France. The ties to the British Union, another socialist country, are being hardened, the production of factories becomes paramount.
With the new found unity of the Commune the french try to expand their influence over the globe. A bloody second american civil war erupts, a few month later a spanish civil war.
Volunteers are being sent to help the syndicalists in the territory formaly known as United States of America.
The Union of Britain has dreams as well and declare war on the unified Ireland.

So, what is going to happen next? Will the great armies of France and Germany clash again? Will the second revolution erupt in Russia?

Next games for late February

Rimworld Tribes Reloaded - Wanderlust

I will go and wander around in Rimworld, that might very well be a really short playthrough :D


On my list are as well:
Europa Universalis 4 no idea with what country though
Here is the Police

and further down the list
Hearts of Iron 4
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Civ 6
Star Ruler 2


and when it comes: Stellaris 1.5

Please leave suggestions in the comment section, I really need some advice what to play next :D

Banana Pi M3 - Day 2

Ok, I fiddled with openVPN which is a pest and with citadel which doesn't work at all and after that I nearly got softether to work. I will get to that in a few days maybe.

Anyway, I have irssi working, got psybnc to work and fiddled with the bashrc a bit and made my abti user able to do the sudo dance.

The IRC stuff isn't that interessting but I will go over that as well in my video.
Well, and I set the timezone. I made my bash show me the time and it was really off.

sudo

adduser USERNAME sudo

nano /etc/sudoers

(and put the user in there)

timezone
sudo cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime

well, for me it was
sudo cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime