fingers284
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Are you sure that's Monrovia....looks to be more a MSM version of Kenosha.
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I would say they are ''enactors''
Perfect uniforms, fat individuals, still retaining firearms and the vehicles all looking factory fresh, not to mention whatever yellow plastic device is being held in the person's face.
I recall reading about a couple of german veterans watching a re enactment asking about what they thought about it.
They politely complimented the equipment and the effort, but one guy said "you are all too fat!"
The re enactors werent that bad by contemporary standards...but even a few pounds over is too much for that era.
Page 341 of the book D-Day by Antony Beevor mentions the US Army study of German POWs where they found the average age was twenty-eight, the average height 5 foot 5 ¾ inches and the average weight was just under 150 lbs. The shortest were those born between 1919 and 1921, the 'Starvation years' in Germany.
By the last year of the war, everyone in Europe was skinny and that went on in some parts, especially those taken over by the Soviets, for another ten years.
I think the only fat guy in Germany during the war years was Goring !
My dad was born in 1916, he was a runt, 29 when he married my mother just after the war, he would seem to fit that profile . I've always written it off to poor nutrition in those days . Looking back. a lot of diminutive Europeans to be found , even British soldiers were a poor comparison to North Americans
Grizz
When a person's word meant something.
This is British Army Captain Robert Campbell, who was captured in 1914 a few weeks after the First World War started and was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Germany.
Campbell was there two years until, in December of 1916, he received word from home that his mother was dying. On a long-shot, Campbell wrote directly to Kaiser Wilhelm II asking for leave to go home to see her one last time.
Not only did the Kaiser say yes, but he granted Campbell two weeks leave at home, plus two travel days each way, as long as Campbell promised to return.
And like an honorable gentleman, he did.
When Campbell's allotted leave time was up, he crossed back across the front lines once more, and returned to the prisoner of war camp, where he began digging an escape tunnel.
His attempt at escape failed, and he remained incarcerated until liberated at the end of the war in 1918.
This is British Army Captain Robert Campbell, who was captured in 1914 a few weeks after the First World War started and was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Germany.
Campbell was there two years until, in December of 1916, he received word from home that his mother was dying. On a long-shot, Campbell wrote directly to Kaiser Wilhelm II asking for leave to go home to see her one last time.
Not only did the Kaiser say yes, but he granted Campbell two weeks leave at home, plus two travel days each way, as long as Campbell promised to return.
And like an honorable gentleman, he did.
When Campbell's allotted leave time was up, he crossed back across the front lines once more, and returned to the prisoner of war camp, where he began digging an escape tunnel.
His attempt at escape failed, and he remained incarcerated until liberated at the end of the war in 1918.
Dark Alley Dan
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Damned impressive, that. But one can't very well disobey one's monarch's cousin. 
Dark Alley Dan
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I'm reading The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich. She interviewed a great many Soviet women who had fought to protect the Motherland from the Hitlerites in the Great Patriotic War. Their remembrances are very different in both fact and tone form the official histories, or the stories men might relate. Hell of a book.
One woman fought with the Kuban Cossacks. That sent me down the rabbit hole of Cossacks in WW2. Not everyone fought for Mother Russia.
One woman fought with the Kuban Cossacks. That sent me down the rabbit hole of Cossacks in WW2. Not everyone fought for Mother Russia.
Hitler's way of dealing with massive unemployment, among other Public works, they built the Autobahn.
