Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "AP Archive" channel.

  1. Interesting to see [5:00] the reactions of members of the public to allied prisoners of war. Presumably they had lost loved ones or experienced privation as a result of the war and wanted a small measure of revenge. I think we would see the same reaction to German prisoners of war in 1945 too. War is awful.
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  2. If these people were French I suppose they would have been called something akin to collaborators or traitors by the Gaullists when Vichy France fell for choosing the wrong side.
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  3. That sounds plausible. What makes me indignant is that the allies continued to bomb cities long after there was any military value in doing so, which resulted in needless loss of life. Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden being just the more we'll known ones.
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  4. Especially regarding Ukraine.
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  5. As early as mid‐1942, after they had attacked the Soviet Union. Failure to rapidly capture Moscow and inflict a decisive defeat upon the Russians, knocking them out of the war before the Americans could fully mobilise, meant a protracted war on two fronts against overwhelming odds that Germany just could not hope win.
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  6. Maybe the French didn't want a war in 1940. Maybe they would just have preferred to have remained neutral considering what had happened on their soil just 21 years earlier, well within living memory. From what I've read in certain history books the French of the interwar period were quite pacifist and anti‐war, quite disposed towards fascism, and their army was in a fairly demoralised state at the beginning of the German invasion, factors contributing to the rapid German victory.
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  7. The Christian religion is such a fraud.
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  8. From reading another's post I am given to understand that approximately 20,000 French people had been killed in allied Air raids that month. Maybe these women had lost friends and relatives and wanted revenge. It's hard to be grateful to those who've just killed your entire family, liberators or not. Raw emotions come to the fore in such circumstances.
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  9. I think another month or two and the war in Ukraine will be over and peace can return once more. Six months tops.
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  10. Both I should imagine. I'm sure the emotions were real but also that the Germans exploited them for propaganda purposes.
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  11. And now the British and Americans again want to make sure, like they did back then, that there is no alliance between Germany and Russia, nor any coming together of the European powers, or Europe with Asia via China's New Silk Road. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ Und jetzt wollen die Briten und Amerikaner wieder wie damals sicherstellen, dass es kein Bündnis zwischen Deutschland und Russland gibt, kein Zusammenkommen der europäischen Mächte oder Europa mit Asien über Chinas Neue Seidenstraße.
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  12. Would you say the same about the Vietnamese, Afghans and Iraqis? Maybe the French of Vichy didn't want to be 'liberated' knowing what might be in store for them, being seen as traitors and collaborators by the Gaullist government in exile about to take power. I also think they might have lost their livelihoods or loved ones to war or endured austerity and privation that they blamed on the war.
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  13. What is the total of German war dead, soldiers and civilians? And why are Russian casualties so huge and out of proportion?
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