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R711 said:
If you want to see something that hits you hard into reality. There are some surviving satellite camps of Mathausen on the Austrian/Yugoslavian border. They were left alone as they split the border, thus the camp was essentially left alone since it was liberated and the burn pits where the bodies were disposed of still have human fat left on the walls. I never meant to go to this camp because it was so out of the way and I’ve been to about 30 of the camps already. It a sobering reminder on what happens when tyrannical govt’s come to power. The only camp that I’ve been to that was worse then some of the main camps is Jasnovac in Croatia, the SS shut it down because it was to brutal. The camps were run by Franciscan priests who were pro Croatian.
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The Tunnel at Loibl Pass written by Andre Lacaze is about one of the satellite camps if I remember correctly.
 
1st Field Company of the Royal Canadian Corps of Engineers setting up a Bailey bridge over a ravine of the Straorini River
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18 August 1944 Major David V. Currie - 29th Canadian Armoured Recon. Regt., with R. Lowe of 'C' Company and Hauptmann Siegfried Rauch of 2.Pz. Div., surrendering to Sgt.Major G. Mitchell - Argylle and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada in Saint-Lambert-sur-Dives, Calvados.
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The same spot in modern times.

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Rod B said:
Bloody Nazis, they killed prisoners right up to surrendering. They should have suffered the same fate as those they heartlessly executed.
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Just not quite so quickly. They didn't have time to "feel the pain" needed for ''real'' retribution for their crimes against humanity.

You say ''Bloody Nazis'' The Nazis weren't the first to establish Concentration Camps with deplorable intentions and living conditions.

The Brits did it in South Africa, the Italians did it in Ethiopia and the list goes on. Rumors persist of it happening in China and other nations now.

We live in a "sanitized'' political plurality at this point and such conditions lead to this sort of thing.

We're on the receiving end of similar social engineering right now as firearms enthusiasts being unfairly and unjustly maligned
 
fat tony said:
21 inch RNTF MK VIII torpedo being loaded onto a Vickers Wellington. The same type was used in the attack on the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano as the Queen's shiny new Tigerfish torpedoes ne marche past
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There were several versions of the Mk VIII heavyweight torpedo, however, the version being used by HMS Conqueror against General Belgrano being the Mod 4 with a heavier warhead and higher speed.
 
Dieppe 19th Aug 1942


At 0500 on August 19th, 1942, the men from the Royal Regiment of Canada were approaching the beach of Puys, a small seaside village two kilometres east of Dieppe. They were already behind schedule and, as the sun rose, their presence was detected. The Germans took aim at the landing crafts that were still ten metres from the shore. At 0507, the first LCA lowered its ramp. Canadian soldiers dashed forward in the noise of machine-gun and mortar fire that targeted them. They fell, mowed down by bullets, hit by mortar shells. Some tried to reach the seawall bordering the beach, hoping to find shelter. They were to be made prisoner after a few hours of useless resistance.

The Royal Regiment of Canada, plus three Black Watch platoons and one artillery detachment, experienced unbelievable bad luck on the Puys beach. Their task was to neutralize machine-gun and artillery batteries protecting the Dieppe beach. Problems started during the crossing of the Channel and the barges arrived in disorganized waves, the first ones already twenty minutes behind schedule. By then, the darkness and smoke screens that should have concealed their arrival had been lifted and German defences were on high alert. As soon as they reached the shore, the men found themselves pinned against the seawall and unable to advance otherwise than in full view of the enemy. Since no ship could get close without being targeted and probably sunk, the survivors of the Royals and Black Watch were forced to surrender. Of the 556 men and officers of the Royal Regiment of Canada who sailed for Dieppe, over 200 lost their lives in action and 264 were captured, among them several wounded.
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https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/the-dieppe-raid/

Another piece of the Dieppe story:
Cpt Nalecz-Tyminski (against orders) brought his destroyer - while under fire - dangerously close to Blue beach to provide covering fire and evacuate as many of the members of The Royals group as possible.

https://stefanbatoryoceanliner.weebly.com/cpt-nalecz-tyminski.html

CPT. ROMUALD NALECZ-TYMINSKI, 1905-2003 - Polish Canadian Hero


THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLISH DESTROYER ORP SLAZAK
Credited with saving the lives of 85 Canadians in World War II - Dieppe Raid, France, August 1942.
He was hailed as a hero both in Canada and in his homeland Poland.

KAPITAN POLSKIEGO NISZCZYCIELA ORP SLAZAK
Za uratowanie 85 kanadyjskich zolnierzy podczas Drugiej Wojny Swiatowej - Desant na Dieppe, Francja, sierpien 1942,
uznany zostal za bohatera, zarowno w Kanadzie jak i w Polsce.

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CV32 said:
There were several versions of the Mk VIII heavyweight torpedo, however, the version being used by HMS Conqueror against General Belgrano being the Mod 4 with a heavier warhead and higher speed.
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And here I assumed they were buying the rarest early marks from naval museums worldwide & sending clearance divers to scour the ocean bottom to get them.

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fat tony said:
And here I assumed they were buying the rarest early marks from naval museums worldwide & sending clearance divers to scour the ocean bottom to get them. :)
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Seems an odd assumption to make.

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HMS Conqueror returns to base at Faslane in early July 1982, flying the (atomic) Jolly Roger.
 
fat tony said:
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The caption said these are safety and arming keys for the WE177 nuclear bomb.

The key on the right resembles the lock key on any 1980's soda vending machine. ��
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"I'm the Lockpicking Lawyer and today we have an interesting challenge..."

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Naturally, they found a pilot with a dashing moustache to take this crate up for a romp...

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This from the IWM:

Focke Wulf Fw 190A-3, Werk Nr. 313, at RAF Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, after being mistakenly landed there by its German pilot, Oberleutnant Armin Faber, the Gruppenadjutant of III/JG2, on 23 June 1942. This was the first Fw 190 to fall intact into Allied hands, and was immediately sent to the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, where initial flight trials were conducted, and where it was also repainted in British markings and given the RAF serial number MP499. In July, MP499 was flown to the Air Fighting Development Unit at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, where its performance was extensively tested in comparative trials with Allied aircraft. The aircraft was then passed to No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft Circus) Flight, who continued flying it from Duxford and Collyweston, Northamptonshire, before it was finally struck off charge on 18 September 1943.
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The sad thing is that the Poles were written out of WW2 history. And sadder yet, all to appease the Russians. A very good book on the Polish contribution. "For your freedom and ours" "The Polish armed forces in the second world war". The Poles were the only allied nation not invited to the victory parade in London at the end of the war. They had to stand on the sidelines and watch.
 
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The sad thing is that the Poles were written out of WW2 history. And sadder yet, all to appease the Russians. A very good book on the Polish contribution. "For your freedom and ours" "The Polish armed forces in the second world war". The Poles were the only allied nation not invited to the victory parade in London at the end of the war. They had to stand on the sidelines and watch.
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That wasn't just to appease the Russians, although that's the story given us twenty years later.

Whether many here want to admit it or not, the German Nazis weren't the only racists with Elitist governments or abstract Monarchies at the time. There were many European nations that didn't like each other and were quite open about it.

Again, like it or not, when push comes to shove and no matter what you see on the rose tinted mainstream media, not a lot has changed today.

Need and example??? China, Macedonia, Iran, Israel, Italy Yugoslavia and the list goes on in one fashion or another to include most nations on earth.
 
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