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Hmmmm back to books, A highly recommended novel about American POWs in a Stalag "Harts War" by John Katzenbach. Excellently written and researched, great plot.

Hmmm Commissar sends me back to my foolish youth when I can vaugely remember, through an alcoholic haze chewing on a rank one of those as welll

Message received LOUD and CLEAR Big Ed and welcome to the forum.

Any machine gun crew that did not have hearing protection would suffer serious hearing damage even from firing a single belt. I don't know what the contemporary condition is as regards hearing protection and Machine gun crews, but doubt anything was issued by any of the participants for their soldie...

Andre The point I am trying to make is simply that that in both situations innocent civilians were caught in the cross fire. Sure, It was a much worse situation in Warsaw and bad atrocitys were performed by some German units. We will never know how many non combatants were trapped in Fallujah and it...

an excerpt from the link to the Times article further back in this thread Phylo "Protocol III of the UN's 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons expressly forbids the use of white phosphorus against civilian targets or military targets in civilian areas. The United States has not signe...

But they are not supposed to be pro American Rajin they ARE supposed to be impartial And George is real hard to warm too anyway

All good points Sid here is an excerpt from a page on the Warsaw uprising on the historylearningsite.uk that mention that some civilians were given an opportunity to leave during a lull in operations "Right into September, the Home Army based its hope on receiving help from the Red Army that wa...

I do not condone the methods used in this no quarter given battle, but believe some similarities can be drawn with Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah as far as innocent civilians getting caught in the crossfire and illegal use of white phosphorus against enemy personnel and civilians by the U.S. Ar...

Here a contribution to a thread on the worst SS Division [quote="Helmut Von Moltke"]First of all, the Handschar was not such a bad unit, it was a competent anti partisan unit.] "The same could be said of the Dirlewanger Brigade, while these methods of partisan and civil population con...

Those State Troopers are a Fascist looking crew indeed , in fact the one on the far left bears an uncanny resemblance to the Reichsfuhrer

To remind us that such people arise when the circumstances permit. Dirlewanger is not a well known reprobate outside communitys like this and even some here don't know much about the Dirlewanger Brigade. That he was an arsehole is beyond doubt and he finally paid the price for that. With all his cha...

One must believe in a power greater than oneself otherwise in our own little minds we become God and answerable to no one. However that greater power is not comprehensible to dumb animals like us. Sorry David it's not the tail end of a mid life crisis is it? The thing that I think is before man ther...

Yes Paddy, please do. I agree that a new thread should be started, not that Grossdeutschland is Waffen SS (but not lily white as some would have us beleive either) but it is very relevant that the incidents with the massacre of the Sengalese troopers by Totenkopf and GD is available in the forum for...