Comments by "" (@BasementEngineer) on "Hürtgen forest and the end of World War II | DW Documentary" video.

  1.  @Nordlicht05  Because of its scientific, engineering, economic, and social successes, Germany was surrounded by envious neighbours. Britain was the worst of them.
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  2. Nobody, but NOBODY, forced Britain to declare war on Germany! You did this all by your lonesome self and reaped the rewards. So stop whining already. Empires before yours had to learn the hard way that you make war on Germany at your peril.
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  3. Well, they certainly are politically correct!
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  4.  @barbsmart7373  The Jews that were shot fell into one of three categories: They were Soviet communist commissars, and these were hated by all sides, especially by their own nationals. Do some reading to find out why. Second, they were part of the partisan armed civilians attacking German troops from the rear. This is illegal by international agreement and those caught are executed immediately without a hearing or trial. All sides did this. The third group was reprisals. This was the arbitrary roundup of a number of civilians in retaliation for aiding partisan actions. This was unfortunate but all sides did this. On the western front the Germans did not do this extensively for a number of reasons. On the eastern front they were not so magnanimous. That is war. There is a moral to this story: Do not declare war on Germany! Germany might lose but the price of victory is extremely high. The Roman, British, & USSR empires all had to learn this the hard way. And the USA is reaping its just rewards now. Churchill was quoted as saying: "You have not fought a war until you have fought the Germans!" As to the claims of the holocaust. In Germany no factual defense is permissible if one is accused of questioning the politically correct narrative. Any defense lawyer who tried this was jailed! Personally I have never been referred to any forensic or other scientific, verifiable evidence. Eye witness testimony is worthless without substantiating material factual evidence As the Zuendel trials in Toronto during the 1980's PROVED, there wasn't even any German documentation to show any order to mass execute Jews or others. Please research this yourself and form your own conclusions.
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  5.  @CrvenkapicaIVZNG  Well, perhaps the French and the Brits should not have declared war on Germany. The USA, while officially neutral should not have interfered with German shipping, the USSR should not have amassed troops and weapons to invade Europe, and the countries occupied by Germany were about to be invaded by Britain! Quite a mouthful but all of my assertions are verifiable with a modicum of searching with google.
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  6. The best and most succinct statement here! Thank you.
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  7.  @petermock553  Germany was ALWAYS an advocate for peace! For proof I can cite 4 studies made after WW I, 2 by American and 2 by British, authors. An essay quoting these sources was published in Chronicles, a magazine of American culture, which put to lie the allegations that Germany was war-like. The honour for that assertion goes, hands-down, to Britain and the USA.
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  8. Soaking wet forests don't burn well. Not sure if napalm had been developed at that time.
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  9.  @stevenpatricknorton458  In your mad dreams maybe.
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  10.  @edangurovitz4262  Bullshit, or prove me wrong.
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  11.  @armstronggermany2995  What reading would you suggest? Is there any literature that does not resort to arm waving and woe is me and them bad naaazzzeees burned my third cousin thrice removed. I am willing to read anything that provides verifiable forensic of other scientific proof of what is asserted.
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  12. What that woman showed was that she had been totally brainwashed. Or she is a committed communist. Or both. Who in his/her (got to be a little PC!) right mind would insult soldiers that lost their lives trying their very best to prevent the murderous communist Soviet Union from overrunning Europe?
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  13. If that were so it would be nice indeed. Because the Germans fought tooth and nail, ie. did their best at great cost, to stop the murderous communist Soviet Union from invading Germany and Europe. Read a book entitled Icebreaker, which covers the Soviet's intentions and preparations. Why do you think there was a "cold war" so soon after the cease fire of WWII? After all, were not the "valiant Soviets" the BFF allies of the western "free democracies"?
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  14. You'll forgive the Germans, or not, I don't care, when they fight tooth and nail when their country is attacked or their compatriots in Poland murdered by the tens of thousands.
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  15.  @danoarmstrong2597  I would amend that to read: "...with the politicians at home".
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  16. Agreed.
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  17. Those stupid bumpkins had to get a piece of the action everywhere the USA leads them. Gullible folks.
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  18. One theory is that the Ford factory was American owned.
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  19.  @jacobhultberg8596  You are an ignoramus.
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  20.  @watching99134  Yes, it puts to lie the claims of Protestant Work Ethic, doesn't it? The Romans never overran or occupied Germany after the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 8. Not like Britain and france were.
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  21. Too much propaganda for you. Get some fresh air in the forest.
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  22.  @SunnyIlha  According to the commentary herein the forest's dimension are 40 x 20 miles, with a perimeter of say120 miles minimum. Very difficult to seal off completely. The USA cannot even protect its southern border today with trillion dollar "defense" budgets!
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  23.  @markbowden7238  Very good observation. Thanks.
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  24. Germany does not need to apologize to anybody. Declare war on Germany and you get your just rewards. The Roman empire disappeared following the battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 6. The British empire came to an end after WWI. The USA is in its death throes after WWII. The Soviet Union came to an end after WWII. Hmmm, there must be a moral here, somewhere.
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  25. Enough to make it worthwhile?
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  26.  @CrvenkapicaIVZNG  A man fighting for the survival of his people is a Verraeter. Got it. Only a brainwashed "German" can come up with that one!
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  27. Who? Churchill or Roosevelt?
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  28. You may have to, unless you want the USA to turn into a cesspool.
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  29. This from the country of the worst warmongers this planet has ever known.
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  30. Evil based on who's opinion? Have you EVER been provided with any verifiable facts that would support the assertions of evil? Bear in mind that the victors cause the history books to be written to glorify their efforts. Fact remains that the NSDAP government of Germany achieved economic wonders with employment, housing, international travel for the ordinary German worker, the Volkswagen, the Autobahn, etc. etc.
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  31.  @alexanderlindner5808  The far leftists bemoan the fact that the Soviet Union did not prevail. Germany had "free" health care and schools and pensions long before your murderous and godless leftist communists appeared on god's green earth.
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  32.  @thenorthstars2210  They didn't start any war. Prove me wrong with verifiable facts.
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  33.  @Dave5843-d9m  You do not know what you are talking about when it comes to Germany. You are right with Patton, though.
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  34. Not likely.
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  35. I suppose you would have been happier under the murderous communists from the Soviet Union? Because the Germans did their damnedest to stop that invasion with their pre-emptive Barbarossa strike. Read a book entitled Icebreaker
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  36. Well, if you want to picky it was the Soviet Union that prevailed in that meat grinder. The USA merely supplied war material to the USSR, and cowardly bombed civilian population centers in Germany. Your braggadocio id rather hollow I think.
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  37.  @randersson3672  It is a very sad fact indeed. But not surprising. The USA has the most effective advertising/propaganda industry ever. Combined with the trusting nature of the Germans, the ones in the USA became easy prey to the propaganda/lies of the war mongers/bankers in the USA. This remains true to this day.
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  38. I would bet you dollars to donuts that many more German soldiers and leaders will greet you at the pearly gates. Hell is reserved for war mongers and their abettors. And that is definitely not the Germans.
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  39. Well, on what facts do you base your opinion? Health , welfare, material well-being, freedom, comfort, pleasant surroundings, reasonable laws and enforcement, etc. etc. ? Based on these items the USSR was a miserable rat hole compared to defeated Germany only 20 years later.
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  40. Well, those individuals subjected to modern math, now being made politically correct because it is racist as being taught by white teachers, have great difficulty comprehending numbers greater than twenty. And only to twenty with their socks off.
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  41. Or, they could have called for a bombing strike. You know, courageously bombing civilians from 20,000 feet. Real heroes.
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  42. Soaking wet forests don't burn well. Napalm had probably not been invented at that time.
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  43. The USA advertising and related propaganda machine is the most effective anywhere. And German-Americans, being the trusting nature that are German, are particularly susceptible to the lies spewed with that machine. Mind you, any dissenting opinions in the USA were forcefully and brutally curtailed. Read what Henry Ford and other US citizens had to say about this. Newspaper offices were burned and their officers imprisoned if they opposed the official propaganda. So much for that free country. And now it is much more so, ie. even less free.
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  44. Because somebody wants something for free.
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  45. In many businesses, good ideas by workers are systematically opposed so as to hide the rampant stupidity of management. Same with regimes. The NSDAP government of Germany required the combined might of the capitalists and communists (sworn enemies) to destroy a superior economic system that managed to seriously improve the working conditions and living standard of the German working man. No other government anywhere has ever achieved this during times of peace.
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  46. Indeed!A book entitled Other Losses describes this war crime very well. And the Americans apologized for their inhumanity in a very low-key ceremony with retired military personnel..
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  47. Do you think this is a good thing? I would prefer that each nation do its own thing and let the best system prevail. Natural selection if you will. Ask yourself this question: Why did the entire capitalist world join forces with the communist world, after all, they are sworn enemies as the cold war proved, to destroy a small European country? Because under the NSDAP government Germany had proven to be a better economic system than the other 2 alternatives. The German economy was booming with no unemployment by the mid 1930's. The Volkwagen was developed and became, with Toyota, the largest, most successful automobile corporations in the world. Then there was the construction of the Autobahn, the model for the USA interstate highway system. Then there is Kraft durch Freude, the holiday system whereby ordinary Germans had the opportunity to travel and visit foreign countries, at very reasonable cost. Are you aware that in Germany the worker's holidays are partially paid for by life insurance companies? That's because these worthies figured out, imagine that, that holidays make for healthier people with longer lives. This allows the insurance companies to hang onto the premiums paid for longer periods of time, earning more investment income, before having to pay death benefits. Have you ever heard of such a thing anywhere else? Me neither. Then there was government to government trade. Germany would ship machinery and fertilizer to Argentina, who would in return ship meat and grain to Germany. No international bankers involved who profited from the work of others. The British and other international banks would not stand for this and fostered war. The mantra that All Wars are Bankers' Wars rings true to this individual.
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  48. Do not make war on Germany, do not murder tens of thousands of German expatriates in Poland, and do not threaten to invade Germany and Europe. Defer from doing these things and all will be well. You do otherwise at your peril.
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  49.  @longtermcareexperiences-bi5685  Besides, the allies started the war, as they started all wars, and began bombing civilian population centers. Even British historians agree with this.
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  50. God obviously does not agree with you. Or how do you explain the cess pool that the USA, Britain, and France have sunk into? Tampant murder and robberies while the police does nothing. Give me the NSDAP any day.
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  51. Logic is obviously not your strong suit. The Nationalist Socialists in Germany tried to stop exactly that of which you are complaining now. The rest of your narrative smacks of too much Hollywood and comic books, with a smidgeon of college teacher lies.
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  52. Any more "saving" like that and there will be no world.
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  53.  @MrNiceGuyHistory  The real monsters were bombing civilians from 20,000 feet.
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  54.  @joecat4892  The brutality of USSR against its own citizens was unbelievable. Read Stalin's latest biography by the Russian author. And to think the Americans sided with that butcher.
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  55.  @lashlarue7924  Any literature to support your opinion?
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  56. Teutoburgerwald or Teutoburger Forest. Over 2000 years ago!
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  57.  @danielmocsny5066  Not so sure that I agree with this. Originally most borders were geographic such as rivers and mountain ranges. These severely limited the movement of people such that these developed differently to adapt to their surroundings. Artificial borders were created by the colonizing countries especially Britain and France in the Middle East and Africa, and Spain and Portugal in South America. Quebec in Canada, being chauvinistic in its adherence to all things French, is an example in North America. Here the borders are the Ottawa River and the St. Lawrence River.
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  58. A modicum of reading of unbiased historical accounts would prove to you the exact opposite of what you assert. For example, had the Soviet Troops marched onto Moscow and executed all the communist party types including Stalin, the Soviet deaths would have been orders of magnitude less all around. This scenario is not as far fetched as it may seem. Read Stalin's biography. The grief that murderer imposed on the Russians is beyond belief, and he was ready to unleash a similar regimen on Germany and Europe. The Germans fought valiantly, tooth and nail, to prevent this from happening while being back stabbed by the so-called "free democracies". Free and democratic??? Not from my observations.
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  59. Hmmm, millions and millions of people WERE exterminated by "your brave men who stopped them". Let's see, in the Ukraine alone 6,000,000 people died due to the actions of your "brave men", Read the biography of Joseph Stalin, the latest one. And the Soviet Union was the "BFF" according to your president Roosevelt who aided and abetted those mass murderers. Then the ceaseless allied firebombing of civilians. Yes indeed, that took bravery! Bombing from 20,000+ feet altitude. Are you aware that about 65,000 French civilians died from allied bombing during D-day actions? Or that about 2000 French sailors died during the sinking of the French fleet by your allies? Ignorance is bliss, right? The Germans fought tooth and nail to stop the communist USSR from invading Germany and Europe which, in all likelihood, would have been the end of the USA also. Methinks that the western world owes a huge thank you to the German people for stopping the USSR where it did. All the USA accomplished was that eastern Europe fell to those murderous communists until 1990. Everything I have stated herein can be verified by a modicum of research. If I am mistaken I shall be pleased to correct my position. Please provide verifiable evidence of my errors. Thank you.
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  60. Not true. Read the book Icebreaker. The Soviet Union was poised to invade all of Europe. The Germans merely preempted defensively that attack.
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  61. Yes indeed, salute the biggest war criminals this poor planet has ever seen
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  62. Motivated and with good leadership, the united Germans are a very tough nut indeed. The Romans found this out the hard way over 2000 years ago. Yes Germany was defeated, but at what cost to the western allies?
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  63.  @anthonylafayette4385  Agreed, they were downright evil.
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  64. Perhaps, but they certainly were DECEIVED men. Their government lied them into the war.
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  65.  @redaug4212  There you are wrong. The USA, while officially neutral, supplied war material to Britainwhich had declared war on Germany. The USA navy engaged German naval and civilian shipping while officially neutral. Germany had no choice but to declare war in order for military commands to fight back to be legal in Germany.
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  66. Read Germany Must Perish to get an idea of what was happening.
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  67. Agreed. But who was evil??? Certainly not the Germans.
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  68.  @dontask6863  You are ignorant. Hitler made more peace offerings to Poland and Britain than any other national leader. Look over Churchill's speeches, which are available on line. He was a paid warmonger who, along with Roosevelt, wanted war with Germany at any cost. They got their wish, with the only decent country destroyed (USA General Patton), and their own countries turning into cesspools.
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  69.  @6actual911  Why? List one good and verifiable reason.
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  70.  @6actual911  WHY??? Yes, I know, Germany baaad, allies good. Germany NEVER started a war! Prove me wrong!
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  71.  @jahd5790  Agreed that Americans are armed to the teeth. But then, why do they put up with the government they have and the thieves on Wall Street?
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  72. Much more so. They stopped the USSR from invading Europe. And the stupid USA interfered with that struggle. Watch your country turning into a cesspool. Deservedly so.
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  73. How old are you?
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  74. Sure they were. In your wet dreams. They were murderes not much better than the Soviets.
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  75. I do not doubt that "his own family" may have DIED in Auschwitz. The allied bombing of everything that moved made supply lines extremely difficult and unreliable. Consequently there were severe shortages of everything, even in Germany itself. You can thank your friendly allies for those deaths. If, however, you claim that they were murdered, you would need to provide verifiable proof that this did, indeed, happen. In over 20 years of debating this issue I have never been referred to such proof. The German courts refer to Offenkundigkeit of such proofs (ie. it's well known that this happened and is the truth...) but, it will imprison anyone who questions this or wishes to supply contradictory evidence! That certainly is not impartial justice.
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  76. Germany has never started a war. The winner of that contest (war mongering) is the USA and Britain.
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  77. The Germans were subjected to unceasing propaganda and denazification by the allies after the war. You can research what a British politician had to say about this when he agreed with this policy. As a consequence the weak-willed portion of the German population succumbed to these lies and go so far as to decry their grandfathers who fought so valiantly to prevent Europe from being overrun by the murderous Soviet Union communists. If these ignorant Germans were to read the latest biography of Josef Stalin, they would be horrified, if they were honest with themselves.
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  78. Good question. Methinks the jury is still out on that one, considering the cess pool the USA, Britain, and France have turned into. Unchecked murder and robberies in the USA.
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  79. Math is hard, don't you know! The USA media says so. And media types have always had difficulties with numbers greater than 20. Taking their socks off only helped up to 20.
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  80. America (USA) used to be very pleasant for people willing to work hard and long. But as a nation the USA is the worst war monger ever.
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  81. Karen: That's because Germany was a meritocracy at that time and had inspiring and competent leaders. The entire capitalist and communist world, with a population advantage of nearly 10 to 1 and endless natural resources, required 6 years to defeat that small European country. What a people! What leadership!
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  82. And, why did the USA help the Soviet Union in the spreading of murderous communism???
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  83. Otherwise the Soviet Union communists would have overrun all of Europe and we'd all be trying to speak Russian.
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  84. Because the German Federal government is so anti-German (sounds ridiculous, I know), this relationship should at least provide food for thought. What country tosses 90+ year old grandmothers into prison for publicly questioning certain politically correct claims regarding the NSDAP government of the day? In fact, the last statistics I read showed that there are more than 8,000 court trials each year, prosecuting individuals that fail to acknowledge these Offenkundig lies. A philosophical observation here: The TRUTH can withstand any and all questioning, only LIES require laws with draconian penalties, to prevail.
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  85. Yes indeed. They did their very best to ensure that half of Europe fell to the communists after the cease fire. Only to declare a Cold War against them a little while later. Idiotic, much?
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  86. If you like politically correct propaganda.
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  87. Well, according to Churchill in his memoirs, the lies (propaganda) in German newspapers was much less than in those in the "free" democracies!
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  88.  @arealfpsdiehard  Bullshit!!! Germany made more peace offerings to Poland and Britain than any national leader. Your heroes Churchill and Roosevelt wanted war, War, WAR! because of Germany's economic successes. And while your countries are turning into cesspools, Germany's economic successes are the envy of the world. There must be a moral, somewhere.
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  89.  @mr.scruffydog4961  Incessant lies will do that.
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  90.  @paavobergmann4920  You must have been a wonderful subject for de-nazification, swallowing the Greuelpropaganda wholesale.
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  91.  @egosumhomovespertilionem  Liberating Europe, you idiot? Eastern Europe was under Soviet domination you nitwit. Typical American ignorance.
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  92. Where do you think public television broadcasts originated? I'll give you a hint. It was NOT the USA. That honour goes to Germany for the 1936 Olympic Games. Surprised? Not me.
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  93.  @silentotto5099  You cannot produce one iota of forensic or other scientific evidence to support your allegations. This was fully proven during the Zuendel trials in Toronto. But the lies continue to keep the reparation money flowing.
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  94. I question the accuracy of your assertion. The NSDAP improved the standard of living tremendously for the German worker. You can research this yourself if you doubt me. In fact the German economy was booming by the mid 1930's or so, while most other countries, certainly all democracies, were still mired in the dirty thirties depression. What modern government can claim that sort of record?
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  95. Typical American ignoramus.
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  96. The British troops ran with their tails between their legs. Remember Dunkirk? All they could do is bomb civilian population centres. Cowards! And then they still whine and moan about their losses!
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  97.  @SparrowNoblePoland  Like Britain or the USA for example.
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  98.  @thelast9961  Why did your family do nothing to stop the murder of 35,000 German expatriates who wound up in Poland post the Versailles Diktat through no fault of their own??? Saints my ass. Probably murderers of Germans.
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  99. TV, which was introduced in Germany during the Olympic games in 1936.
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  100. Well, don't declare war on Germany, or take sides with those war mongers! Germany fought tooth and nail to defend itself. Only the combined forces of the entire capitalist and communist world could defeat a small European country, taking 6 years to do so. What a people! What a country!!
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  101. You sir, are an ignoramus! Germany has NEVER started a war! The true war mongers are the USA and Britain.
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  102. Well, the USA wre certainly the most lied to.
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  103. What are you saying? Kindly explain.
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  104.  @dotjpeg9102  Then they should not have attacked Germany in the first place, or murdered 35,000 German expatriates in Poland, or mobilized to invade Germany and Europe. After all that you still have the temerity to complain what the Germans did to counteract the described actions.
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  105. A wise man your grandfather. Too bad that wisdom came too late. Adolph saw it coming.
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  106. The Germans DO NOT PLAY VICTIMS! Prove me wrong with verifiable, factual, evidence. You must mean the Poles, or "that shitty little country" in the middle east, as stated by a French politician or diplomat.
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  107.  @m.rivers10  The Germans never declared war on anybody. They simply forestalled invasions by the allies. Get your facts straight.
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  108. Sorry about the misspelling; I meant to write "troops' morale". Morality is something else, which German troops had in abundance. Defending your home land is always noble, regardless what your enemies would have you believe.
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  109.  @ruslanbu9924  You raise a valid concern. Bear in mind that the USSR scorched earth policy harmed the Soviet people more than the Germans who could rely on supply lines. Then there were the Soviet rear guard battalions who would shoot any Soviet soldier who wanted to retreat or surrender. I believe that the Soviet people paid a terrible price indeed due to their misguided belief in their government. Had they marched into Moscow and executed the entire Soviet command structure, I'd bet dollars to donuts that the Soviet losses would have been negligible, and their standard of living much superior to what it is even now.
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  110.  @vladv157  Well my friend, then your government should not try to invade Europe. Read Icebreaker by Viktor Suvorov.
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  111.  @luizuea1  Please provide some verifiable facts to research to back your assertion.
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  112. Germans are naturally neat and tidy; at least they were during those times. Believe it or not, tidy uniforms help the troops morality immensely.
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  113.  @barbsmart7373  Moral of the story: DO NOT declare war on Germany!
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  114. There are cowards everywhere. My father volunteered to defend Germany and he fought against the Soviet Union which was poised to invade Germany and Europe. You bet I am proud of him and his comrades!
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  115. Well you and I weren't there so who are we to judge. Going by the treatment the accused received at the Nuernberg Trials (crushed testicles, threats to family members, etc. to get them to confess) perhaps their chosen path was preferable. I really don't know.
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  116. It wasn't for a lack of trying by the Germans. They made numerous peace offerings even after France had surrendered.
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  117. @Ver Der Not if the 5 other kids are hell bent for a fight, because they are cowards and unable to take on Germany in a fair fight.
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  118. Let me amend that: In a one on one fight. Under such a scenario Germany would have beat the pants of all comers. As it was it took the combined might of the entire communist and capitalist world, with a population advantage of perhaps as high as 10 to 1, 6 years to defeat a small European country.
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  119. Aiding and abetting the hated Yankee. I get it.
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  120. Why would the allies fight the Germans at all???
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  121. My parents who were in their twenties during the 1930's in Germany had similar favourable memories. Fact remains the war was fostered by USA and British war mongers Churchill and Roosevelt, aided and abetted by their central bankers.
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  122. If you had a democracy I would agree with the latter part of your statement.
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  123. Britain and France declared war on Germany after it stopped the murder campaign of 35,000 German expatriates in Poland. The Soviet Union was poised to invade all of Europe, which the German people stopped at horrendous cost. And the stupid USA interfered with the German effort to stop the communist Soviets. Do a little serious reading if you wish to check my statements.
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  124. You probably mean Teutoburgerwald, or Teutoburg Forest, the location of an epic battle between Roman troops and the German tribes. This occurred in AD 6, and was the beginning of the breakup of the Roman Empire.
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  125. Can you tell us more about him? The Waffen SS were all volunteers from all countries of Europe. Where was he from?
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  126. A book entitled Other Losses describes these war crimes very well. The Americans even apologized for it in a very low key ceremony in Washington.
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  127. No one is a friend of the USA. Only associates of convenience.
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  128.  @anthonylafayette4385  Even Churchill in his memoirs agreed with you!
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  129. Imagine the 35,000 German civilians murdered in Poland! These poor souls wound up in Polish hands because of the Treaty of Versailles. Which was not really a treaty but a diktat which the Germans had no choice in negotiating or signing as they were being starved to death by the British blockade after the cease fire! It was sign or starve.
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  130. You are, of course, referring to Churchill or Roosevelt, right"
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  131. Brainwashing does strange things to people.
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  132. Bankers and war mongers make a bundle of money. The war mongers because they know a war is coming and what businesses to invest in.
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  133.  @angiealigo4012  The real kings of propaganda are the British and the USA. Read what Churchill had to say about lies in the German press and the "free" democracies.
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  134. If you believe that nonsense about the Soviet troops sparing civilians and children, I have a bridge to sell, cheap. I have never seen more nonsensical claptrap.
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  135.  @CrvenkapicaIVZNG  Another poor soul that swallowed the denazification coolaid.
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  136. Germany has Never started ANY war, certainly not a world war! I'll stand corrected if you can prove otherwise. If, however, you wish to name the true warmongers among nations, you cannot go wrong by naming the USA #1, Britain #2, France/Spain #3. An essay was published on this topic some years ago in Chronicles, a Magazine of American Culture. The author was able to quote 2 American and 2 British authors to substantiate his assertions. I bet you can't quote any documentation to back your assertions. But, if your grandpappy said so it must be gospel...
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  137. That is true what you say. However, if you hold yourself out as morally superior to your enemy Germany, then you need to prove that through your actions, especially after the cease fire. And judging by that criteria the Germans were truly boy scouts ie. morally much superior.
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  138. That is the result of post war denazification by the allies. Children hating their parents who did their damnedest to prevent the murderous, soulless communists of the Soviet Union from overrunning Germany and all of Europe.
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  139.  @atatterson6992  If you live in the USA I do hope that you'll remember this thought.
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  140. This last reply was meant for Calvin Hell. Sorry about that!
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  141. E: Well, Germany did its best trying to keep the murderous communists of the Soviet Union from overrunning Europe. If that is stupid in your opinion, you are the one of questionable intelligence.
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  142. In all seriousness, you do.
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  143.  @superuchic3153  Ah yes, another knowledgeable "brain".
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  144. You have watched too many Hollywood propaganda films. Germany fought to prevent the murderous, communist, Soviet Union from invading Germany and Europe. Your stupid and miserable country stabbed the Germans in the back and prevented them from succeeding. The result was the Cold War that cost untold trillions of dollars with little to show for it. As to the Jewish people. Suffice it to say that in Germany today several 90+ year old grandmothers are in prison for doubting the official narrative of that Greuelpropaganda. Remember, the TRUTH can withstand the most vigorous investigations and questioning. Only LIES require laws with draconian penalties to prevail. But, karma is a bitch. Look at the murder and robberies, all unpunished, occurring in the USA today. Maybe the Germans knew a thing or two as to what it takes to run a modern and efficient country. Needless to say the USA hasn't learned that lesson yet. Remember: A smart man learns from his mistakes, but a wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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  145. The Germans were brought down, as you say, because they had developed a superior economic system that put to shame anything the capitalists or communists had to offer. This superior economic system, a third system of economic organization if you like, created in less than 5 years, an economic boom in Germany as seen nowhere else. This system threatened the profits and viability of international bankers which were based mostly in London England and New York City USA. It was these bankers and their hangers-on that were the primary war mongers and had their governments declare war on Germany.
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  146. The allies were the criminal regimes, declaring war on Germany.
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  147. You obviously missed the story of what all that air superiority did for the USA in Afghanistan! After 20, TWENTY! years they left with their tails between their legs. Hmmm, brings back memories of Dunkirk.
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  148.  @christopherlewis791  Yes indeed, as the western world is turning into a cesspool!
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  149.  @otgdy2081  He believed that if he were magnanimous towards the British they would be more inclined to sign a peace agreement. Germans by-and-large like the British; the opposite is not the case unfortunately. Methinks it's a case of envy and inferiority complex. I have worked with English people, and my boss for 10 years was English. They were superb people and a real pleasure to work with.
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  150.  @dpmu7380  Poland, before the outbreak of hostilities, faced a number of choices. Negotiate with Germany for a satisfactory arrangement regarding Danzig (now Gdansk), and unimpeded access to the eastern regions of Germany. Even British diplomats wrote that the German demands were very reasonable and workable! In its wisdom the Polish powers-that-be decided to follow the "advice" of the British and USA warmongers by insulting the German government, and continuing the murder of 35,000 German expatriates. To say nothing of the chauvinistic Polish newspaper headlines regarding a Polish invasion of Germany, and the incessant border excursions. You made your choice, now live with it!
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  151. Germany did have television broadcasts since 1936.
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  152. Well, certainly the most lied to, by their government.
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  153. You are too trusting. Germany is still an occupied country and dances to the tune of the USA/Israel. What country in its right mind imprisons 90+ year old grandmothers because they do not believe the politically correct claptrap, or gives submarines for free or at cost, to a country doing its best to destroy Germany and Germans. Denazification at its best.
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  154.  @tookitogo  You may be right but, Germany is a pretty small country and Germans from the north are likely to know quite a bit and visit other regions in their country, for example. As opposed to the USA where natives from the eastern states likely know very little about, say, the Mojave Desert, 2500 miles west.
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  155.  @mattiasdahlstrom2024  What makes you believe they were thinking? They were obeying orders from "on high".
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  156. What makes you think they were surprised? After having civilian centres bombed incessantly? After retreating from the murderous Soviet Union? SO what were the Germans doing all over Europe. Well, when 35,000 German expatriates were murdered in Poland, Germany went in to stop that murder campaign. You'd think the Polish government would stop ithis but nooo. Well, after Britain and France declared war on Germany, Germany fought back. More later.
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  157. The Soviet Union was poised to invade Germany and overrun all of Europe . Germany initiated a pre-emptive strike to stop this, but the stupid USA had to butt in, supplying the Soviet Union with millions of tons of war material, including 450,000 trucks and US Dollar printing plates. When Britain declared war on Germany, the officially neutral USA supplied war material to Britain and interfered with German shipping and naval vessels. In order for Germany to fight back against the illegal USA attacks on German shipping, Germany had to declare war on the USA officially in order for those orders to be legal in Germany. Further, all countries that were invaded or occupied by Germany either sided with the allies (Belgium and Holland who permitted British bombers to cross their territory, plus other non-neutral actions) and Denmark and Norway, who were threatened with British occupation. Greece also sided with Britain and took its lumps. And Germany was/is the bad guy??? If you can prove me wrong on any of the points above, with factual and verifiable proof, I'd be pleased to change my point of view. Arm waving, and Offenkundigkeit won't cut it, neither will and "evidence" from the Nuernburg show trials, which USA Supreme Court Justices have labelled with rather uncomplimentary terms and as a permanent shame on USA jurisprudence.
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  158.  @redaug4212  Not true. The USA was officially neutral in the European conflict, all while shipping war material to Britain, interfering with German shipping, and arresting German ships in USA harbours at the time Britain declared war on Germany, and engaging German war ships in the Atlantic Ocean. All while claiming neutrality! In order for Germany to fight back, it needed to be formally at war with an enemy so that German military orders were legally given. Hence the formality of the German declaration of war, a war the USA had already engaged in illegally!
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  159.  @bbvollmer  They are called concentration camps and were invented by the British in their war in South Africa stealing the wealth of the Boer settlers.
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  160. You would have preferred that the Soviet Union invaded all of Europe?
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  161.  @marcogram1216  Britain began the bombing of German civilian centers. Hitler wanted agreemment to stop this but Churchill refused, knowing he would drag the Americans into the fight he instigated. You Brits should destroy all reminders of Churchill because he alone was responsible for the British losses and suffering. A modicum of research with google will disclose the accuracy of my assertions.
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  162. Considering that the Soviet Union is no more, the USA and Britain have sunk into a social and judicial cesspool, but Germany is re-united and doing quite well thank you, I'd re-think my opinion on this matter. Or, as I stated elsewhere herein, the jury is still out on who really won that war.
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  163.  @lyndoncmp5751  Well Britain and France declared war on Germany. In fact, between 1918 and 1939 France invaded parts of Germany twice. I just bet that your country would have sat back and done nothing.
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  164. Did they win? Methinks the jury is still out on that one.
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  165. And if any regime is/was evil it is the USA, Britain, and France for their ceaseless war mongering.
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  166. Well, don't declare war on Germany, or mobilize for an invasion of Europe. Even the Romans had to learn this the hard way.
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  167. Yes, for destroying the only decent country in Europe, according to USA general Patton. Methinks he had a point!
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  168.  @adamberry71  Then don't declare war on Germany or murder 35,000 German expatriates in Poland/
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  169.  @bbvollmer  Which was a good thing. Otherwise Europe would have been overrun by the murderous communists of the Soviet Union. Read a book entitled Icebreaker.
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  170. This is for DW or the Deutsche Welle censor of this blog. I've added much commentary to the opinions written below. I believe that the great majority of them are correct and are verifiable by a modicum independent research. If I am factually wrong please correct me with verifiable facts and I shall correct my views. You may, of course, delete my commentary and that is your right as owner of this blog but, bear in mind that you will then confirm the belief that Germany has joined the international cess pool into which have sunk the political, judicial, and intellectual "elite" of the western world. After all, what sane government imprisons 90+ year old grandmothers for failing to swallow the current politically correct claptrap? I await your response but am not holding my breath. If those whose commentary I have criticized wish to correct me with verifiable facts, please feel free to do so. Thank you. HdC
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  171. Well, they thought that before with the result it lost 27,000,000 people. That was the Soviet Union, mind you.
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  172. Did you live in the Soviet Union? If not, why not?
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  173.  strawman hitIer  Finally someone who thinks and understands what really happened.
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  174.  @lyndoncmp5751  Well, don't declare war on Germany: Britain & France, murder 35,000 German civilians in Poland, or let British airplane cross your territory to bomb Germany: Holland.
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  175. What did your family do to stop the murder of 35,000 German expatriates that wound up in Poland after the Treaty of Versailles??? They probably took part in the murders. Germany had a perfect right to stop that carnage. The Polish government could have stopped the murders. Why didn't they. You research and answer that question honestly and you will find many other answers to your queries.
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  176. Germany was NOT, repeat NOT, the antagonist. It was Britain and France that declared war on Germany, with the USA acting belligerent while officially neutral. God almighty, get your facts straight.
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  177.  @JuneJarka  I disagree with your premise. The leopard cannot change his spots. If Germany today is a successful and peace loving country its because it has always been so. Look around you. Who today is fostering war and bombing innocent civilians. It is the usual suspects of Britain, France, and the USA. 'Twas ever thus. Over a period of 400 years prior to WWI, France alone invaded The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nations (today Germany, more or less) 40 times. Once every 10 years!
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  178.  @suzyqualcast6269  You need to get away from Hollywood and comic book history.
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  179.  @daniels_0399  Bullshit. Too much coolaid and Hollywood, or comic books and college "professors".
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  180. He was a communist and his style of writing was terrible. In highschool english class I said to my teacher that if we the students wrote like that he'd fail us. The teacher just kept quiet!
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  181. There are always choices. For example, the stupid USA could have stayed out of that war but nooo, there was money to be made. Or, the USA could have allied with Germany! Just think of the scientific advances! The mind boggles. I'd bet there would be humans on the planet Mars by now. Or a cure for cancer.
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  182.  @TheLittlered1961  If all western countries had joined Germany to fight the Soviet Union (please, not Russia, there is an important difference), that war would have been very short with relatively low loss of human life. The impact of this on human life, standard of living, scientific advances, etc. is almost beyond imagination. Of course the naysayers will proclaim that "We'd be all speaking German now". Not true. As proof I offer the fact that the German language was never imposed on any German occupied country. Unlike the Soviet Union that imposed the Russian language on its conquered territories.
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  183. As an American (USA) your are a hypocrite to call any other evil. The USA has been at war with one country or another practically since its founding. And YOU have the unmitigated gall to call any other regime evil?
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  184. It's because of the guilt trip that was laid on them by the allies after the war, and now their own government which imprisons 90+ year old grandmothers who lived with the NSDAP and do not believe the politically correct nonsense that is being spewed today.
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  185. Thanks for mentioning those books! They are a good example of USA hypocrisy regarding the good war and war crimes. Eisenhower should have been hanged for his crimes.
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  186.  @KabbalahWisdom  Well, he is obviously a thinking individual who does not swallow the politically correct narrative. Remember, the exact opposite of what you are told about Germany and WWII is much closer to the truth!
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  187. Methinks God damned America, what with murder and robberies running rampant. Weird blessing if you ask me.
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  188.  @bobsmith7982  Had the USA stayed out of the war Germany would have managed that all by itself.
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  189. The German people "followed" because the NSDAP regime managed to raise the standard of living tremendously for the German worker!
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