Comments by "NSResponder" (@NSResponder) on "History Hustle" channel.

  1. I knew a Dutch gentleman, friend of the family, who was enslaved by the Nazis when he was a teenager. He was forced to work in a munitions factory in Germany, and the prisoners there did whatever they could to make the rockets they were producing as inaccurate as possible. It's very easy for the fins to not be quite symmetrical, for example. When he was liberated by the advancing Allies, he immediately volunteered to join the US Army, and was assigned as a combat interpreter since he spoke English, German, French, and Dutch. He was in combat pretty much from the day he joined until VE day. He knew that the Nazis were murdering people in vast numbers, but what he was seeing was non-Jews being shot if they got sick and couldn't work.
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  2. They couldn't do so because they never made a successful gas mask for their horses. The German forces were far less mechanized than most people realize.
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  3. In the Netherlands, they're known as goddamned traitors.
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  4. Communism, just like Nazism, is a death cult. Soviets were brutal to everyone, even each other.
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  5. They fought to the end because they knew what they deserved, and they wanted to delay justice as long as they possibly could.
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