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one footed wonder
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Just finished reading a fantastic but at times harrowing account of the waffen SS by pen and sword military books.......would recommend it
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walter mitty
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They hav'nt won many wars
ironically ww2 was a direct consequence of their most successful soldier who wasnt even french and eventually lost
luvulongtime
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wonder in 2015 if we'll be able to celebrate 200 years since waterloo and 600 since agincourt or will it be pc not tooThey hav'nt won many wars
Wrenthorpe Mackem
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In combat and military terms, they were a brilliant and formidable fighting unit - perhaps the most elite fighting unit of all time. But they did commit war crimes. That is beyond dispute. Having said that, so did the Wehrmarcht, but that seems to have been airbrushed out of history.
As for the branch of the SS that manned the death camps, the Totenkopfstandarten and Eintzagruppen - clearly beyond the pale.
Worth a read if you can be bothered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen-SS#Soviet_Union
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Joe Fabulous
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That little bloke with a kiss curl?
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intothelight
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We should celebrate every victory over the French, keeps the buggers in their place!
Skandhaless
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They hav'nt won many wars
Well they won the first world war , Napoleons Grande Armee held most of Europe at one time, probably won a good percentage of the medieval conflicts ( we don't have Normandy or Aquitaine anymore)
French get bad press over the walk over in ww2, generally a very successful military nation. If you like that kind of thing
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walter mitty
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alan carr?
luvulongtime
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walter mitty
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they had the most advanced army in the world and turned an ran for fucks sake
crecy, angincourt, blenheim,waterloo
there are many more
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intothelight
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The BBC documentary, The Nazis a warning from history, interview a Belgium bloke who volunteered for the Waffen SS. He lost an arm and still went back into the fight. He says he missed his comrades at the front. He gave as his reason for joining the SS was he wanted to fight against communism.
Wrenthorpe Mackem
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Not the Vatican's finest hour. Officials there helped numerous Nazi and Croat war criminals escape to South America after the war, incuding Adolf Eichmann, Franz Stangl, Joseph Mengele, Eduard Roschmann, Gustav Wagner, Alois Brunner and the Croatian and Ustase leader Ante Pavelic.
Skandhaless
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they had the most advanced army in the world and turned an ran for fucks sake
had most of it one the Maginot line didn't they ?
MY owld fella made no bones about how fast he ran out of France either, straight into the sea at Dunkirk.
Frances efforts in WW1 are usually very much overlooked though.
Wrenthorpe Mackem
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had most of it one the Maginot line didn't they ?
MY owld fella made no bones about how fast he ran out of France either, straight into the sea at Dunkirk.
Frances efforts in WW1 are usually very much overlooked though.
Very true. Anyone who doubts the bravery of the French should read about Verdun.
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walter mitty
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had most of it one the Maginot line didn't they ?
MY owld fella made no bones about how fast he ran out of France either, straight into the sea at Dunkirk.
Frances efforts in WW1 are usually very much overlooked though.
verdun aye
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Joe Fabulous
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And Martin Borman. Read Grey Wolf.
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intothelight
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what digging a few trenches, it was our lads that did most of the fighting.
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Joe Fabulous
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The problem with the French army, is their officer classes are even worse than the British...
luvulongtime
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seen a doc which stated bormanns bones were positively identified about 10 years ago on a building site in berlin
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