Comments by "" (@BasementEngineer) on "DW Documentary" channel.

  1. You're joking, right? The Brits ran with their tails between their legs from Dunkirk! The USA had to bail them out while Germany was battling the Soviets to stop them from invading Europe.
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  2.  @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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  3. 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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  4.  @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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  5.  @edangurovitz4262  Bullshit, or prove me wrong.
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  6. Then don't declare war on Germany, or threaten to invade it. Easy, right?
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  7.  @stevenpatricknorton458  In your mad dreams maybe.
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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.  @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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  10. Well, they certainly are politically correct!
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  11. The best and most succinct statement here! Thank you.
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  12.  @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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  13.  @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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  14. The majority of the worlds population disagrees with you. That speaks volumes about yourself.
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  15.  @EspritArkitekt  You didn't like it. Are you back in your own rathole country?
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  16. Typical American ignoramus.
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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. He didn't fail; in fact he was quite a respectable artist. He wasn't accepted at the Vienna art school because his type of art, scenery and such, did not fit the nature of art taught at that school.
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  21. But you are, right?
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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. Soaking wet forests don't burn well. Napalm had probably not been invented at that time.
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  27.  @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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  28. One theory is that the Ford factory was American owned.
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  29. Those stupid bumpkins had to get a piece of the action everywhere the USA leads them. Gullible folks.
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  30. In Germany it was the National Socialists, with the emphasis on National.
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  31.  @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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. Agreed.
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  35. Germany did it once; let someone else bleed in the new battle.
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  36.  @jacobhultberg8596  You are an ignoramus.
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  37. You have it exactly backwards!
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  38.  @easternfrontagain  It was an off-hand quip, to be taken qualitatively only. To be sure, Europe has never been united! The closest it ever came to such a union is the EU, post WW II. If you were to read "The Pity of War" by Niall Ferguson, you would learn that had Germany won WWI, the European Community would have been formed 80 years earlier! As an aside, can you explain how Russia became such a huge country?
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  39. Too much propaganda for you. Get some fresh air in the forest.
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  40. Those were the rules established by the victors in 1950.
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  41.  @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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  42. And who started all that??? If you believe the mass media, you'd be wrong.
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  43.  @markbowden7238  Very good observation. Thanks.
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  44. 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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  45. Enough to make it worthwhile?
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  46.  @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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  47.  @rubig1111  Germany was reclaiming its stolen lands from Poland.
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  48.  @Rom2Serge  Serge, I certainly appreciate your narrative, and it very closely resembles my understanding of the Ukrainian situation. But, over the last 100 years or so the official world-wide bleating has been "Germany baaad, capitalists and communists good". Now it is your turn.
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  49. Who? Churchill or Roosevelt?
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  50. You may have to, unless you want the USA to turn into a cesspool.
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