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| Berlin, July 1945 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 9 2015, 09:13 AM (178 Views) | |
| jon-nyc | Aug 9 2015, 09:13 AM Post #1 |
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Cheers
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h/t OT http://youtu.be/R5i9k7s9X_A |
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| Copper | Aug 9 2015, 09:51 AM Post #2 |
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Shortstop
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A great place to build a new world order. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Klaus | Aug 9 2015, 11:07 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I haven't seen that footage yet. Everything looks surprisingly orderly in the first half of the video. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| TomK | Aug 9 2015, 11:57 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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The problem is that this all didn't happen in some backwater of the world. The Germans were one of the most educated and advanced civilizations on earth before and during Hitler. They bough into some crazy idea of genetic supremacy and killed millions of people that weren't up to par. It was their intention to wipe an entire race of people from the earth because of their beliefs and bloodlines. And they had to get the freakin' snot beat out of them before they stopped. These guys fought to the last man and last building for their right to kill Jews and Slavs and anyone else they didn't like. We had to drop a couple of nuclear bombs on the Japanese to get them to stop roughly the same sort of political idealism. I remember when I supported the Iraq War. I felt so right and so "American." It seems so pointless now and so jingoistic. Yea, Saddam was a bad buy, but now we have ISIS a lot badder bunch of bad guys. Smart, educated, it may mean nothing--we really have to be careful what we believe and fight for. I bet was easy to become a Nazi. |
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| Copper | Aug 9 2015, 02:58 PM Post #5 |
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Shortstop
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I think it was join or else for many. We believe it's join or whatever (except for the IRS and justice department). Big difference. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| TomK | Aug 9 2015, 03:50 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Nope. Those people BELIEVED. That is what the destruction was all about. You don't destroy your civilization and have all your loved ones killed because some madman tells you to do so. They believed. Just as in some ways we believe. It's easy, all you have to do is just listen---and it all kind of makes sense |
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| bachophile | Aug 9 2015, 07:41 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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exactly 70 years later and everybody here wants to visit (or study, or live) in berlin because its the hippest city in europe. |
| "I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen | |
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