PICTURES FROM HISTORY: Rare Images Of War, History , WW2, Nazi Germany: India-Third Scientific Powerhouse

Incredible Innovative India (Bharat) on MOVE (WESTERN DATA Genesis / Gemini AI) : India is now the #3 scientific powerhouse in the world.

As of January 2026, India's status as a top-three global scientific powerhouse is supported by several major rankings and performance indicators in research, artificial intelligence, and academic output.

Key Scientific Rankings (2025–2026)
Scientific Publications: India is ranked 3rd globally in the number of research publications, trailing only China and the United States. Scholarly output grew from roughly 60,000 papers in 2010 to approximately 195,000 by 2024.

AI Competitiveness: India has secured the 3rd position globally in AI vibrancy and competitiveness according to Stanford University's 2025 Global AI Vibrancy Tool, outperforming advanced economies like the UK, Japan, and Germany.

Highly Cited Research: India ranks 3rd globally in producing influential research, with approximately 19,000 articles appearing in the top 10% of most-cited papers.
STEM PhDs: The country ranks 3rd globally in the total number of PhDs awarded in science and engineering fields.

Academic and Institutional Milestones -
Interdisciplinary Science: In the Times Higher Education (THE) Interdisciplinary Science Rankings 2026, India emerged as the most represented country in the world, with 88 institutions making the list.

Overall Representation: India is now the second-most represented nation in the broader THE World University Rankings 2026, behind only the U.S., with 128 ranked universities.
QS Asia Rankings 2026: India has become the second-largest contributor to this list (294 institutions), surpassed only by China

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Quotes about war....

"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man."
--Napoleon Hill

"We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide."
--Havelock Ellis

'Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
--Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
--George McGovern

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
--Joseph Stalin

In war, truth is the first casualty.
-- Aeschylus

"The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery."
--Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
--Adolf Hitler

"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."
--George Orwell

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
--Bertrand Russell

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
--Francis Meehan

Snippets From History

German Soldiers in Russia: Part 1

Hubert Menzel was a major in the General Operations Department of the OKH (the Oberkommando des Heers, the German Army headquarters), and for him the idea of invading the Soviet Union in 1941 had the smack of cold, clear logic to it: 'We knew that in two years' time, that is by the end of 1942, beginning of 1943, the English would be ready, the Americans would be ready, the Russians would be ready too, and then we would have to deal with all three of them at the same time.... We had to try to remove the greatest threat from the East.... At the time it seemed possible.'

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Battle for Berlin, 1945

'We started to fire at the masses,' says one former German machine gunner. 'They weren't human beings for us. It was a wall of attacking beasts who were trying to kill us. You yourself were no longer human.'

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Berlin after it fell to the Russians, 1945

"Vladlen Anchishkin, a Soviet battery commander on the 1st Ukrainian Front, sums up the horror of the whole event, when he tells how he took personal revenge on German soldiers: 'I can admit it now, I was in such a state, I was in such a frenzy. I said, 'Bring them here for an interrogation' and I had a knife, and I cut him. I cut a lot of them. I thought, 'You wanted to kill me, now it's your turn.'
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Dramatic Pictures: Battle For Stalingrad

"...Effective command no longer possible... further defense senseless. Collapse inevitable. Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops."
General Paulus' radio message to Hitler on January 24, 1943
"...Capitulation is impossible. The 6th Army will do its historic duty at Stalingrad until the last man, the last bullet..."
Hitler's response to General Friedrich Paulus' request to withdraw from the city