Swastika tattoo on Polish resistance fighter's chest?
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Donny Fenn1
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How about the French, allied with the Brits, then the Germans and finally back to the allies ?
Grizz
"Allied" I like that. Allies of convenience much like some of the resistance mentioned here. Local criminal organizations fighting amongst themselves under the cover of fighting for whatever power was going to give them the most weapons and/or money.
Check this poor bastards out Yang Kyoungjong.
Donny Fenn1
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How about the French, allied with the Brits, then the Germans and finally back to the allies ?
Grizz
"Allied" I like that. Allies of convenience much like some of the resistance mentioned here. Local criminal organizations fighting amongst themselves under the cover of fighting for whatever power was going to give them the most weapons and/or money.
Check this poor bastards out Yang Kyoungjong.
The poor Poles, they were allies, a significant factor in the Battle of Britain and then got fed to the Bear.
Grizz
The poor Poles, they were allies, a significant factor in the Battle of Britain and then got fed to the Bear.
Grizz
Also battle of Falaise, Market Garden, Tobruk, Italian Campaign, Narvik. Good to remember about Katyn massacre as well. Enigma code contribution and V2 rocket Intel.
In the late 90’s I did some flying with an ex Italian airforce pilot. Certainly the most egotistical azzhole I’ve ever come across and one day on a flight he was on a rant about his vast knowledge about warfare. When I interrupted him to mention my thoughts on the subject, he told me that Canada was a young country with no knowledge or experience on the subject. I immediately told him at least Canada knew what side to fight on....
I could tell he was furious about my comment but at least he shut up for the remainder of the flight. He did report me to the chief pilot and I was called in for for a chat. I told the chief pilot that he should be proud of me because I didn’t tell the old Itie to go faik himself and we both had a laugh about it.
There were lots on the wrong side at times.
I could tell he was furious about my comment but at least he shut up for the remainder of the flight. He did report me to the chief pilot and I was called in for for a chat. I told the chief pilot that he should be proud of me because I didn’t tell the old Itie to go faik himself and we both had a laugh about it.
There were lots on the wrong side at times.
I was born and raised in 'Toon but my parents were immigrants from U.K., mother a Scot who grew up mainly in London, where my father was born and raised. I may have spoken English slightly more correctly than my peers growing up but my accent was definitely from here. I joined the British Army as a young man and six weeks into basic training anyone who didn't know my back story thought my accent was Irish. On my first visit home they thought I had a British accent. My father visited relatives in in U.K. often when he was retired (my mother had died) and he said people there thought he was Canadian, but all his life here people could hear his English accent.
I bought an autobiography book from a thrift shop in Vernon, B.C. a few years back. It was written by one of the few Polish officers to survive Katyn. He survived the Soviet forced labor camps. He eventually escaped and made it to Canada after the war where he became a professor. Fascinating story.
In all my researches I have never seen any data that would confirm popularity of swastika tattoos among those who fought on Nazi side. Known tattoo artist Herbert Hoffmann from his pre-ww2 work in Hamburg commented that tattoos were not popular among "decent people", except sailors (both commercial and military) his client base. The only known "research" of tattoos on German POWs by Danzig Buldaev was proved to be fake. In absence of data and facts trying to guess which side this guy was with just by knowing his (probably post-war) tattoo just makes no sense at all.
"Decent" people don't have tattoos these days. They're going to look very silly, 30 years down the road, especially some of the racier ones.
Grizz
Butcherbill
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"Decent" people don't have tattoos these days. They're going to look very silly, 30 years down the road, especially some of the racier ones.
Grizz
The thing is the only people who are worried about what tattoos are going to look like 30yrs down the road, are generally the people that don’t have tattoos.
The rest of us aren’t that concerned about it, my oldest tattoo is 28 yrs old and is holding up fine. When I’m 70 or 80 I’ll be worried about bigger things than what my tattoos look like, most likely who’s going to change my adult diaper or when my meal of mushed peas is going to be served.
SS men were not always recruited from the God fearing upper middle class in the other ranks or the deaths head units.
I'm not talking about SS, I'm talking actually about more broad category - anyone who fought on Nazi side or serve in auxiliary units. There are no evidences about swastika tattoos being common and to support this fact I mentioned that all other tattoos were not common as well.
Butcherbill
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I knew I'd get somebody's blood pressure up.
Grizz
Think again, how were your mushed peas? Or was it creamed corn last night after your sponge bath?
