Since it seems Germany has been excused in some recent threads around here... yes, it's OK to blame someone... let's say... Poland. :rolleyes:
Does that apply for celibes, monks, nuns, priests et al. too? :D :p
Well, I didn't include a 'strong' foreign policy since I'm an international guy, not a citizen of the only remaining super-power... That'd...
Excuse me... I've just re-read this and have gotten its sense better. Do you mean, what is more important in determining political stands?
I think social issues come first, since I believe that State institutions must take as little a part as possible in economic affairs. And, as...
I taught history for a little while... now I can only mention my thesis for philosophy, which is a comparisson of the Nazi and Stalinist...
Well, I must admit that, for me, WWII and specially the Holocaust were decisive. German born and raised (though, of French mother), in what I'd...
This whole thing is another proof of the brutality and wickedness of the totalitarian Nazi dictatorship: its last victims were the German people.
As for the Luftwaffe thing, I'll let the experts speak... My (only) source was John Pilmott's Luftwaffe and I was under the impression that the...
I think the title of the thread is misleading... Are we talking about 'effectiveness' or 'scale'? The scale undeniably favours the Eastern Front....
Letting aside the 'bravos' and 'amens' that contribute so much to a high quality discussion, I have to strongly disagree again: That acusation...
No. What some people fail to see is the distinction, between the individual actions, which are that, individual. There is a first distinction,...
Jeffin: I haven't read Grossman's diaries, but I have indeed read Life and Fate, which is not only a must-read first-hand account for war buffs,...
When did I say all? And I got it from Robin Lumsden's Himmler's Black Order and several books on the Holocaust. It's even in wikipedia: Again,...
Oh yes, I forgot, those poor Germans under Herr Goebbels' spell... Now, let's see what those Germans heard on the radio, on the famous 'Total...
Did you read the second part of my post? Because I think you didn't. So, please do: 'Then I understood and wondered at the same time. There was...
I do think it was doomed from the start. And it all has to do not only with Hitler's own megalomania, but that of the German General Staff, Von...
Given that a third of the Waffen SS' original core of men came from Eicke's Totenkopfverbände or from the Leibstandarte (which after the 'Night of...
Very good post, Tired. I appreciate the response. The thing is that the more I read about WWII history, the more I question myself on...
I don't want to turn this thread into yet another Waffen SS thread, but there was no initial distinction between the two branches of the SS. And...
