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Why so many threads on Nazis?

Ah, another thread about the Nazis. That makes it 11/30.

Hmmmm. Did you try reading any of them to find out?
 
Find out what?

In any case, this isn't a thread about them. This a thread for people who know better than to argue with them.

With any luck it will be educational for those who haven't figured it out yet.
 
CriticalSock said:
Currently on the first page of threads of the History, Literature, and the Arts forum, one third* of the threads are about the blasted Nazis. Why?

They were a humourless bunch at the best of times, didn't cover themselves in glory and came a very decided second in the war. Can't we just forget about the miserable dogs and talk about more interesting things?



*10 threads out of 30 at the time of posting. Even I can do this math!
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I guess you never read the rise and fall of the one third Reich?
 
I have three stories about World War 2 which I'd like to offer up as an antidote to the Nacho lovers and Coconut deniers (thanks Akhenaten!):

My Grandfather on my fathers side got dropped in Arnheim as part of Operation Market Garden. He was a Paratrooper. They were expecting to go up against old men and boys but ran into heavy resistance at the famous "Bridge too far". My Grandad ended up holed up in a basement of a house. In the basement he discovered the owners collection of fine wines and brandies. After sampling liberally from these he fell into a deep sleep. He finally awoke to find himself surrounded by German soldiers. The German officer said "For you Tommy, ze war is over." They took him back to their HQ and gave him a slap up meal and loads of booze.


My Grandfather on my mothers side was in the RAF. He went over to France with the BEF and I think he can't have been very good because he was put in charge of the records. (not of the whole BEF, just his squadron I think it was). He didn't have a clue what he was supposed to do and as the days passed the paperwork mounted up. He was just stuffing it in boxes and hoping, but knowing that there would be a reckoning one day and agonising over it all the time. Eventually they got pushed back to Dunkirk (actually I think they were down the coast from Dunkirk), standing on the beach waiting to be taken off by a boat. My Grandad's commanding officer comes up to him and says "Hancock! We can't leave anything for the Germans. Burn all the records!"

My Grandad said it was the best moment of his entire life.


My final story from the war comes from a friend of the family, Max Palmer. He was a scout in the German army, part of that furiously fast push into France at the start of the war. He was ahead of the main advance, scouting, when he came upon an apple orchard on a French farm. In an outbuilding he found many barrels of cider. Drinking his fill he fell asleep in the sun under an apple tree.... to wake up surrounded by English soldiers with the officer saying "For you Fritz, the war is over." They treated him really well, he spent the entire war in prison and ended up marrying an English girl called Ruby.
 
Neo-Nachos and Coconut deniers not served here.


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Thanks for sharing those stories Critical. It is nice to hear about the more human side of the war. Many German soliders had no more interest in being involved as allied soliders
 
Neo-Nazi's and Deniers are just behind the times...

They should really move onto defending Pol Pot as the nicest guy evar and claiming that 'The Killing Fields' was made up just to make him look like a jerk.
 
Pinkymcfatfat said:
Neo-Nazi's and Deniers are just behind the times...

They should really move onto defending Pol Pot as the nicest guy evar and claiming that 'The Killing Fields' was made up just to make him look like a jerk.
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Nah, that would be stealing Noam Chomsky's shtick.....
 
No sweat. Arti. For a start, you're a human being and neo-Nachos and Coconut deniers are a few rungs down the ladder from pondscum, so it's pretty easy to spot the difference.

Besides, you appear to have a cat on your head, which is pretty distinctive.
 
Our little thread here seems to be having an effect, but there are still a few, it seems, who just don't get it, so for them, I'll type big and slow.


The neo-Nachos and Coconut deniers are NOT the problem. The people who insist on responding to them ARE.


Perhaps if you see one of your Forum friends doing it, a quick PM to this effect might not be out of order.
 
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(Czeching the fora) WHOA! They've infested us like...um...I mean, um...

(Alter Ego: You're at a loss. May I suggest "like cockroaches from a carton from Safeway?")

(Thanks, dude) They've infested us like cockroaches from a carton from Safeway!


There are advantages to having multiple personalities. If nothing else it gives you someone to tell you how stupid you are, night and day.
 
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