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March 15th, 2006, 03:41 PM
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can someone really talk hitler into kill six million Jews?
i think not
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March 15th, 2006, 05:41 PM
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Just a minute, guys - please.
This quiz has been running for about four years now and the rules of the game haven't changed : the person who answers a question correctly gets to ask the next one.
And at the moment that's...me.
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March 15th, 2006, 05:47 PM
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ooops! [img]redface.gif[/img]
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March 15th, 2006, 06:26 PM
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'In that plane were all my private archives...it is a catastrophe !'
What famous episode in 1983 was sparked off by those words ? 
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March 16th, 2006, 07:03 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by kingtiger:
can someone really talk hitler into kill six million Jews?
i think not
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Guys, guys, please read into the previous questions / replies. The rules roughly are: somebody who responded correctly to the previous question earns the right to put in a new query. This is a very concrete one, about a quotation, photo, fact, whatever, that calls for a very specific reply. Something like how many gold teeth did Ribbentropp have, or something even worse!
No place for general questions here.
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March 17th, 2006, 12:17 AM
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I like the "gold teeth" question better than Martin's question. [img]tongue.gif[/img] 
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March 17th, 2006, 12:30 AM
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The Hitler Diaries, Martin?
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March 17th, 2006, 06:26 AM
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Right in one, Gordon - the words allegedly uttered by Hitler and mentioned in the memoir of his personal pilot Hans Baur led ultimately to the hilarious 'Hitler Diaries' hoax.... [img]smile.gif[/img]
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March 20th, 2006, 11:46 PM
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Apologies folks, I forgot about this! 
Ok, an easy one to make up for it....Who was the only German prisoner to escape from an Allied camp and return to Germany?
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March 21st, 2006, 08:54 AM
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Oberleutnant Franz von Werra from Canada across the St Lawrence to (then) neutral USA.
Worth checking out "The One That Got Away" with Hardy Kruger as Von Werra, alot filmed at the actual escape locations.
More Info on Von Werra
I notice this article mentions "He was only the third German prisoner of war to make a successful escape from Canada. The first man had managed to return home via Japan and Russia, but the second had been handed straight back to the Canadians" Never heard about the first one...?
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March 21st, 2006, 09:07 AM
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Well done, Ian. Never heard of the first one either. Got the book on Von Werra (which I think the film was based on), but haven't read it for a while.
As an aside, Helmut Pohle mentioned in the article was shot down in the first air raid on the Firth of Forth in October 1939.
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March 21st, 2006, 09:21 AM
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Okay here's my question.
Which location on the US mainland was the first to be shelled by the Axis in WW2?
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March 21st, 2006, 10:38 AM
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The United States mainland was first shelled by the Axis on February 23, 1942 when the Japanese submarine I-17 attacked the Ellwood oil production facilities at Goleta, near Santa Barbara, California. Although only a catwalk and pumphouse were damaged, I-17 captain Nishino Kozo radioed Tokyo that he had left Santa Barbara in flames. No casualties were reported and the total cost of the damage was estimated at approximately $500.--Wikipedia
Right?
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March 21st, 2006, 10:40 AM
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correct! Wikipedia makes it too easy!
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March 21st, 2006, 07:51 PM
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Sweet. My turn.
B-29's flew in a within a certain altitude range because this General felt that they would take no casualties at this altitude during a March 9th bombing in 1945.
Name the General, the bomb site, and altitude range.
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March 21st, 2006, 11:42 PM
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Curtis LeMay. Got 1/3 of a "kill".
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March 22nd, 2006, 01:01 AM
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Oh, yeah!
Bomb Japan between 5 and 10 thou and get off easy.
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March 22nd, 2006, 06:16 AM
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It was Curtis LeMay of XXI Bomber Command, the target was Tokyo, and the attack altitude was 7,000ft. It worked - it's estimated that up to 85,000 people died.
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March 22nd, 2006, 10:35 AM
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Fire bombing in Japan in WWII killed more Japanese than both the atomic bombs combined. And why is it that nobody remembers this?
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April 10th, 2006, 05:54 PM
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They do, Its just that on the www..forums and politics sites etc, people tend to convienently forget that fact in order to raize hell about mans inhumane weapon and the Yanks inhumamity where an enemy is concerned....to serve the needs of their own political viewpoint...better by far to be killed by fire raids in the hundreds of thousands than to be killed by one bomb developed by the USA in the main. And truthfully although Im anti war and especially politically anti Iraq invasion and tissue of corresponding lies..to see the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasake used as a political tool and conveinetly forget the firebombing deaths and the continued massacres that would have gone on without any Japanese reaction is political correctness gone mad..As others have stated on here...a great view on the matter is given in the book, Safely Quarteed out hear, by the guy who wrote Flashman novels and served in Burma...He has a great answer at the end of the book to all the doubters of the bombing..Sorry for rant on quiz forum..doesnt belong here I know..apologies...but yourlast post Luck Jack raises a good point.
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Convienently forget...I like that. I think it may be either...never did know, don't want to know, refusal to learn, or everybodys favorite...Denial.
I knew.
Ahhhh ... Philosophy, it needs to have a spark of humor to make a lasting impression.
from Samuel Langhorn Clemens
My kind of loyalty is loyalty to ones country, not to its institutions or its office holders.
The country is the real thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to;
Institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
There can be a difference of opinion, without being one side or the other.
The world is shades of "Grey", not Black or White. Especially in Politics!
back to subject...
Who wins...TA 152 or Martin Bull? Your call LuckyJack.
What's the next question?
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I suppose I shall hijack this with a new question, as it has been a few months...
...wow, I'm a bit rusty.....sooooooo
Name the first General in the History of the United States army to surrender his command to the enemy. (happened in world war two...duh)
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July 15th, 2006, 02:24 AM
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Gen. Wainwright...Surrendered 70,000 American and Philippine personnel to Gen. Yamashita in Manila 1942. I think 
Okay my turn.....On April 23rd and 24th, 1944 during the Anzio or "Shingle" Operation, what significant action took place ensuing two men to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor?
I know this one will be a tricky one because there was things happening all over the beachhead frontlines on the 23rd and 24th of April 1944 but, I'm looking for one in particular...
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July 15th, 2006, 03:00 AM
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Gen. Wainwright...Surrendered 70,000 American and Philippine personnel to Gen. Yamashita in Manila 1942. I think
Okay my turn.....On April 23rd and 24th, 1944 during the Anzio or "Shingle" Operation, what significant action took place ensuing two men to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor?
I know this one will be a tricky one because there was things happening all over the beachhead frontlines on the 23rd and 24th of April 1944 but, I'm looking for one in particular...
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lol thats not QUITE the correct answer
there was another surrender...just under a month before the surrender of Corregidor
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