Oh my, the same lame old argument.
If it's so lame you shouldn't have any problems defeating it, and yet you do.
Here is a good comment from amazon. Use google translator if you do not speak German:
Als erstes kommt meist das schlagkräftigste Argument. Die stalinistischen Säuberungen der Jahre 1936 bis 1938 hätten die Rote Armee ihrer wichtigsten Militärtheoretiker und Führungskräfte beraubt.
Sicher ist es richtig, dass die Säuberungen einen schweren psychologischen Schlag darstellten. Drei von 5 Marschällen, 4 v. 4 Armeegeneralen, 27 v. 27 General Obersten, 85 v. 95 Korpskommandanten, 136 v. 199 Div. Kommandanten, 255 v. 433 Brigade Kommandanten und 98 von 108 Kriegsratsmitgliedern wurden verhaftet. Diese wurden aber bei weitem nicht alle umgebracht! Viele kamen 1941 wieder in Dienst! Effektiv wurden 17.000 Offiziere aus der Roten Armee ausgeschlossen, 9.500 davon verhaftet. Zwischen 1925 und 1937 wurden 135.000 Offiziere und 13.000 Kommandeure bei der Roten Armee ausgebildet. 1938 und 1939 kamen zudem Kommandeure hinzu, die sich auszeichneten und jeden Weggang durch die Säuberung ausglichen. Von der Akademie (Frunze Akademie) des Generalstabes die 1937 gegründet wurde, gingen bis 1941 4.000 Teilnehmer erfolgreich ab! Diese standen ab 1939/40 unter dem Einfluß von Timoshenko, Schukov und Pavlov. Falsch ist anzunehmen, das der Sturz von Tuchatschewski, Jegorow und Blücher (Blüjerc) die moderne Militärtheorie der Sowjetunion zerschlagen hätte. Der Beleg sind die militärischen Erfolge der Roten Armee am Chassan See und Chalchin Gol (Südmongolei 1938 und 1939) sowie die erfolgreiche Angriffsoperation in Karelyen (Winterkrieg 1939/40 Finnland/Sowjetunion). Die Rote Armee wurde zwar zu einem Großteil enthauptet, jedoch blieben die wahren Köpfe am Leben und viele im Amt. Zudem wuchs eine Militärelite nach, die nach den Lehren des sowjetischen Hauptmilitärtheoretikers, Marschall der Sowjetunion und ehem. Zarengenerals B. M. Schaposchnikow ideologisiert und ausgebildet wurden. Zu diesen Leuten zählten Köpfe wie Schukow, Wassilevski, Bagramjan (Bagration), Rokossowski, Pavlov (der sowjetische Guderian), Merezkov, Sacharow, Konew, um einige zu nennen. Man sollte dabei auch nicht vergessen, das trotz des Aderlasses im Offizierskorps, die Rote Armee von 1938 bis 1941 verdreifacht wurde. Auch dies spricht gegen eine große Auswirkung der Säuberungen. Das Regime Stalin war in der Lage die Säuberungen nicht nur zu kompensieren, nein es war sogar in der Lage seine Truppenstärke in kürzester Zeit zu verdreifachen! Zudem hat schlechte Führung noch nie einen Kriegswilligen vom Kriege abgehalten.
I don't speak German and I don't care to wade through a crappy internet translator which will remove any intelligence that might be in the quote. If it's important to you you'll take the trouble to translate it. If it's not, you'll leave it be. Simple as.
Thanks for the info. I am a very tall, dark haired Aryan, and I admit that self hate is one of my lesser problems. Oh and that 'dark haired' is a lie, at least in 2010. Do not assume too much about me. The older I get the more I tend to think that there is some truth in the folk wisdom of 'dumb blond'. Never seen a blond chess grandmaster or philosopher. Do not take it personal.
Oh, I don't. You're not a real Aryan though. You're a Dutchman, decedent from the lesser Germanic tribes, more kin to the Anglos than the Aryans.
Looking beyond the pseudo-scientific racial BS though, we're both human beings, and so are the Jews, the Africans (including whomever you wanted to get rid of in the Netherlands), the Asians and everyone else. I wanted to see if appealing to race would get you going, and it did. Now I know that I'm indeed dealing with a bigoted racist Nazi.
At least some truth shines through in your comment regarding Versailles. I agree with people like Lloyd George (in the essence) that without Versailles no Nazies. The Weimar democrats were unable to release themselves from the predatory allied stranglehold, so a more competent plumber was to do the job.
While "without Versailles no Nazis" might be true (emphasis on "might"), it would not be correct to say that the Versailles treaty is to blame for the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi state. Germany wasn't innocent in WWI. They weren't solely guilty either. High ranking officers warned that imposing a treaty that was too harsh would lead to another war in Europe. That's what happened. But, all that doesn't change the facts:
1. Germany started World War II.
2. Germany invaded Russia for "lebensraum" and resources.
3. The Nazi state was inherently bad for it's population, and for other European populations.
4. The atrocities committed by the Nazi state are inexcusable and need to be held up as an example of how evil human beings can be to each other.
He was 29 when he wrote that. When I was at that age I believed that the Jews were admirable and the Americans our liberators. Silly, right? From the 1937 Hossbach protokol it becomes obvious that Danzig and die Tsjechei were his limits.
Hardly. Hitlers motivations were quite clear in retrospect. The policy of appeasement didn't hold up to a predator of his stature. He needed to be put down like the sick puppy he was.
Until the invasion of Poland Hitler had killed hundreds were Stalin had killed millions. They are incomparable.
No, they are quite comparable. Both examples of evil. While Stalin killed people to secure his own power, Hitler killed people because they had been born in a different religion. It's "pick your poison" time. Both were bad.
Not true. Before the invasion of Poland extensive negotiations had been going onto resolve the Danzig issue peacefully.
The negotiations failed. Austria and Czechoslovakia stood as examples of the expansionist interests of Hitler's Nazi state. At a conference held on 23 May 1939, Hitler told his commanders (including Göring and Keitel who later verified the records): "Danzig is not the subject of the dispute at all. It is a question of expanding our living space in the East and of securing our food supplies, of the settlement of the Baltic problem. Food supplies can be expected only from thinly populated areas. Over and above the natural fertility, thorough- going German exploitation will enormously increase the surplus."
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http://gooring.tripod.com/goo22.html
What triggered the invasion was not Danzig but the persecution of Germans by agressive Poles.
False. This was one of the excuses Hitler used. He lied.
Were do I make threats? I just make predictions.
Your predictions come off as threats. As impotent as they are, I'm sure they're just symptoms of your neo-Nazi frustrations.