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Hi all, I think there is a lot of evidence of something unusual happening at this time. Perhaps it was an attempt to try out the barges which went wrong as Churchill suggests? I could even believe in a commando raid if shown some more evidence I suppose. In any case, as Sid says, there is so little ...

I go with Churchill on this one (as recounted in Volume 2 of his history of WW2). I will use the information provided by Churchill as the primary source for the following answer. As far as I can recollect, the Battle of Britain was a serious attempt to remove the RAF as a factor in an invasion. The ...

Wrong to publish, but it's very unclear on how the Sun can be sued. Every time I post on this forum, I find myself in agreement with Sid on most issues. Allowing a man who has killed so many with his own hands (not forgetting those killed on his orders) to act as a victim is gross stupidity. The Sun...

Interesting points about the US, but I'm not sure how one can relate them to the differing experience of European countries during WW2. Especially when one remembers that the only deaths on the US mainland were caused by the odd Japanese balloon bomb. Returning to the original question, I can give o...

Fantastic information.

Again, many thanks for bringing this thread to my attention Sid,

Regards,

S.Williams

Hi Sid,

French sources are fine with me, if that makes it easier to locate (misspent years in Liege somewhere along the line....).

Hugely appreciated,

S.Williams

Hi Sid,

could you give me a source on the Germans taking over merchant shipping at Marseilles? Would like to read up about it.

Many thanks,

S.Williams

I can't agree with your views on women in Nazi Germany. Unless you view women as brood mares, then I see little to recommend it. And Germans joked about the youth organisations - "They lose their strength through joy" was the punchline in jokes about field trips... The freedom to 'do what ...

Hi Christian, what is an 'unlawful enemy combatant'? Either they are in breach of Geneva conventions or they are not. Either they have breached law or they have not. Why create a new concept? I am sure that the US Attorney General would not just create a new definition merely to circumvent the Genev...

Zebedee, Your argument is totally flawed as militants in Iraq violate every basic law and custom of war: suicide bombings; indiscriminate use of explosive devices in urban areas; civilian assassinations; kidnappings; torture; mutilations; exploitation of victims; etc. No matter how you look at it, ...

Having said that you are correct that the Geneva Convention does not provide protection to combatants who fight without recognizable uniform/markings. I could be wrong but I believed that it does. It is covered by levee en masse in Article 4. Their only obligation is to "carry arms openly and ...

I believe Talonsoft's Eastern Front is available as a free download from Matrix site given above. It might be the divisional level game someone else mentioned remembered. As for me, HoI1 (Core) is probably the best strategic game atm. HoI2 will be better when it is eventually modded to respectabilit...

I always thought that the German Naval Academy was based at Kiel (apart from a 5 year relocation to Berlin 1926 - 1931). There was a training ship 'Horst Wessel' built in Hamburg (1936) which was used by German naval cadets. I think it was taken as reparations by the US after the war and may still e...

re. schools teaching British children about 'Polish' concentration camps. Today, I went down to the history department and pulled out a few of the text books for study about Hitler and his rise to power. Nazi Germany is usually studied between the ages of 14 and 16 for the GCSE exam. (An interesting...

Sid, Berwick upon Tweed is mentioned in a declaration of war only because it was one of those times when Scotland and England could not agree who owned it. It was revived in the 70s (edit - actually the mid-60s) as a tourist device by Berwick council. As you'll know, it was never a sovreign state so...