Firearms Registration in Nazi Germany

desporterizer said:
Morph 18's grasp of history is so profound he doesn't know Neville Chamberlain was pm when the brits declared war on Germany.
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I really, REALLY hate doing this, but he's almost correct. PM Chamberlain sought appeasement but Churchill worked behind the scenes to warn of the threat Germany was becoming during the 1930's.

Morph18 is still an ass though. Mods, banhammer time?

-- L
 
desporterizer said:
Morph 18's grasp of history is so profound he doesn't know Neville Chamberlain was pm when the brits declared war on Germany.
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Nor does he know that the first world war was a giant cluster resulting from mutual protection alliances... He should read a book, where perhaps he would learn that the Triple Entente (our side) formed as a pact of protection in response to the Triple Alliance (their side).

The British were a neutral party, concerned mainly with minding their empire at the time. Germany began fashioning a large club with the development of a navy which could rival the traditional authority of the British Royal Navy.

I would be more than willing to go on were I not feeling as if it was falling on deaf ears...:bangHead:
 
:sucks: This was all thrashed out on the battlefields of Europe 65 years ago with the German military and the Nazi philosophy being administered one of the most crushing and well deserved defeats in history, so why are we re-roasting the chestnuts yet again?:confused:

There is nothing like an un-repentant nazi, unless it is a neo-nazi. It's all beyond reason, so why bother to give them an audience.:bangHead: Freedom of speech being what it is, we have an old die-hard in town who likes to contribute his outrageous pro-nazi ramblings to the local paper a couple of times a year. One of his most memorable contributions concerned the relief program for the Haiti with one of his big ideas being a variation on the old "arbeit macht frei" theme. By and large people don't take the bait and respond because his arguments are patently self-defeating.

It is interesting how the prisms of time, ignorance, and/or political correctness can allow things to become distorted. Again, the local paper does an annual tribute to veterans edition, with vets and families invited to submit photos and details of their military service. A couple of years ago, there in the middle of a page full of our vets, we saw a picture of dear old opah in full Wehrmacht regalia, complete with stahlhelm and jackboots, proudly standing at brace while receiving one of the nazi gongs.:eek: There were a couple of indignant letters over that one and we haven't seen opah again. A generation or two ago the reaction would have been considerably less muted.:kickInTheNuts:
 
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Lojak said:
I really, REALLY hate doing this, but he's almost correct. PM Chamberlain sought appeasement but Churchill worked behind the scenes to warn of the threat Germany was becoming during the 1930's.

Morph18 is still an ass though. Mods, banhammer time?

-- L
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Yes but there is a something to be said for a captain being responsible all those under his command.
 
Churchill was one of the greatest men of the 20th century, of Chamberlain and his gang he said something like," Appeasers are men who would negotiate with a crocodile in hopes of being eaten last."
 
NateC said:
Again, did they declare war on us or do anything even remotely hostile towards Canada?

Our fight was not a fight for our freedom.
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Eventually it would have been, simply a question of time. If Britain had fallen and the Germans could have focused everything on Russia, they would certainly have managed to drive the Russians to their east coast and eventually conquered there. After that, NA would have been the target, and with all the resources available to them at that point, it would certainly have been a manageable thing. Better to have fought them on their (and Europe's) ground then ours. I also think that eventually (had the Hitlerites managed to conquer the rest of Eurasia) that they would have turned on Japan. Their racial views would allow nothing less. FWIW - dan
 
I kinda like morph18 - I haven't laughed quite like this for a while now. I really like his take on history, maybe he should learn to read and sign out some history books from the library.
 
funny. I don't remember the luftwaffe attacking Pearl Harbor. But I DO remember hitler declaring war on us. Yes, I was around to hear the radio broadcast telling of the attack.
 
BTW guys, the Japanese were "Honourary Aryans", whatever that might mean.

Idea was, eventually, for North America to be partitioned between the Nasties and the Nips. Occupation plan for Britain still exists and has been published in both it original form and as propaganda. No matter: either way, it was nasty.

All of the issues, put together, are amazingly complex and there is a huge amount to be said on both sides. But at the bottom line there s one inescapable fact: Hitler had something that did a great deal of good but, at the bottom, it was nasty and HAD to be destroyed. It is the world's tragedy that in destroying this ugliness, something else, just as virulent and even uglier, was given the strength to threaten the world for the next 45 years..... until it finally fell apart from its own internal weaknesses and corruption. Ronald Reagan was the man who gave America the confidence it needed to see this through.
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NateC said:
Oh yes? The Nazis were going to invade Canada, once they invaded England... Sure, okay. Who declared war on whom first?

All the men over 16 in my family fought in the War, and none of them said they were fighting for Canadian "freedom".
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Those nazi scumbags would have invaded the USA and Canada as well. Why would hitler not take over North America? He wanted to control the world and make it "pure" for his "super race"
 
I may be mistaken, but i think continental europe was Hitlers only aspiration. He wanted "breathing room" for his reich. So once Britain and Russia were tamed, fortress europe would have been complete. Seems logical to ME anyway. The Luftwaffe was always, right from its inception, a tactical airforce. Designed from the beginning to simply support the army. A strategic role, like attacking north america, was not feasable. Lucky for us, its all moot anyway
 
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