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A few weeks ago I asked you guys about how many nazi war criminals were still at large and got some answers. But I ended up reading about Alois Brunner, who is dead now but seems to be one of the worst guys who got away with it (sounds like a really bad guy that the world is better without). But I read his bio and I was like "holy crap, old man Assad had his own Dr Strangelove?" - I didn't know that. So, I was wondering - how many of these former Nazis ended up as advisors or special consultants to various powers in the 60 years after the war? I know about Von Braun, SS-Sturmbahnfuher turned "humble rocket enthusiast" - but who else had one? Did the Russians? The British? The Chinese? Any other countries who'd take in some fairly bad guys or bad guy adjacents and forget that they were bad guys in exchange for their expertise? 146.200.129.62 ( talk) 08:35, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
Paul Robinson's TV and the Failure of Russian Soft Power says:
I don't follow Korean culture, so I have no idea what is "Koreans' obsession with relative age". Is that a Korean version of the " Half-your-age-plus-seven" rule? Age disparity in sexual relationships has nothing about Korea. DuckDuckGo tells me about Korean obsessions with tallness, beauty and blepharoplasty but not with relative age. Can you tell me what Robinson means? -- Error ( talk) 19:55, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
As in Japan (and to a much lesser extent, China), age = rank. Yes, there are many other sources of rank, but all else being equal (it never is), the elder gets more respect than the younger. Hence, knowing someone's age helps with honorifics and other cultural signals. It's a Confucian thing. DOR (HK) ( talk) 02:25, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Error -- There's some mention of Korea on article Senpai and kohai (mainly about Japan)... AnonMoos ( talk) 02:29, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
My notes say it was Lise (Lise – La femme à l'ombrelle, or Lise with a Parasol), which Karl Ernst Osthaus acquired in 1901 for the Museum Folkwang—just less than a decade before an American museum acquired their first Renoir. I don’t have any sources for this claim (I either lost them or misplaced them). If anyone has the answer, please share. Viriditas ( talk) 23:13, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
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A few weeks ago I asked you guys about how many nazi war criminals were still at large and got some answers. But I ended up reading about Alois Brunner, who is dead now but seems to be one of the worst guys who got away with it (sounds like a really bad guy that the world is better without). But I read his bio and I was like "holy crap, old man Assad had his own Dr Strangelove?" - I didn't know that. So, I was wondering - how many of these former Nazis ended up as advisors or special consultants to various powers in the 60 years after the war? I know about Von Braun, SS-Sturmbahnfuher turned "humble rocket enthusiast" - but who else had one? Did the Russians? The British? The Chinese? Any other countries who'd take in some fairly bad guys or bad guy adjacents and forget that they were bad guys in exchange for their expertise? 146.200.129.62 ( talk) 08:35, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
Paul Robinson's TV and the Failure of Russian Soft Power says:
I don't follow Korean culture, so I have no idea what is "Koreans' obsession with relative age". Is that a Korean version of the " Half-your-age-plus-seven" rule? Age disparity in sexual relationships has nothing about Korea. DuckDuckGo tells me about Korean obsessions with tallness, beauty and blepharoplasty but not with relative age. Can you tell me what Robinson means? -- Error ( talk) 19:55, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
As in Japan (and to a much lesser extent, China), age = rank. Yes, there are many other sources of rank, but all else being equal (it never is), the elder gets more respect than the younger. Hence, knowing someone's age helps with honorifics and other cultural signals. It's a Confucian thing. DOR (HK) ( talk) 02:25, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Error -- There's some mention of Korea on article Senpai and kohai (mainly about Japan)... AnonMoos ( talk) 02:29, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
My notes say it was Lise (Lise – La femme à l'ombrelle, or Lise with a Parasol), which Karl Ernst Osthaus acquired in 1901 for the Museum Folkwang—just less than a decade before an American museum acquired their first Renoir. I don’t have any sources for this claim (I either lost them or misplaced them). If anyone has the answer, please share. Viriditas ( talk) 23:13, 17 February 2022 (UTC)