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Hi Gelber, Good point. I don't think it is a minor point. I know a bit (A very little bit) about the Prussians Junkers being the core of the Kaiser Officer Corps during WW1. And they were back "en masse" in the Wermacht, Prussians or others, sorry, dunno, with many Von Rundstedt, Von Manst...

Hi Paddy, You mentioned my name in your post above, plus some sentences in French "especially for me". Thanks but I will not respond, not by disregard towards you, or by strong disagreement with your stand, but simply because I think that French contemporary politics are out of topic here....

Paddy, c'est vrai! But, to apply the formula Laurent applied to so many others, then the French Army is also a bunch of losers! We can't have it both ways now, can we? A - Loosers (Or losers? now I am confused. Whatever): Allow me to rephrase a bit my stuff about the French Foreign Legion recruits....

Hi Paddy, WE HAVE COMMON GROUNDS!!!! ALL HOPES ARE PERMITTED!!! I have nothing to challenge or to disagree with in your post above. Except, for the sake of keeping my big mouth wide opened, to mention that Dunkirk is to be written Dunkerque. Well, in French at least :D Allow me to take this opportun...

Many thanks for the time-old Anglo Saxon tasteless joke, you couldn't find a better question at Mid-May, time to celebrate some glorious anniversaries: 13 May 1944 – Central Italy The 2nd IM Division of General Dody (CEFI, French Expeditionary Corps in Italy) took over Mount Girofano and Mount Maio,...

Laurent, Oh, and please, no more Private Messages suggesting that I am a Neo-Nazi. Paddy Keating My private message was following your own insulting, threatening and unsollicited private message. I would aslo highly appreciate if you could leave my mailbox alone, thanks. I was not suggesting that y...

You are only confirming my point of view there: This former Rodhesian SAS lost his country to Mugabe. Enough to give him the rage to fight for the rest of his life. Paticularly when one see what Rodhesia became "after". The Legion welcomes this type of character. My wording "looser&qu...

Many thanks, Sid. I was a bit reluctant, being rather new here, to jump at the throat of Paddy. This forum, in spite of its interest in rather violent historical events, is looking like to be peacefull, I like it and don't want to be the first one to "shoot". Gangsters history survey requi...

Ooops, using a Frog meaning in my Franglish post

Tip-top = the best of his time, at the top of the scale, that sort of thing.

Interesting thread. It seems that we are reaching a point where we can only mutually disagree. :D But, before calling to the rescue our personal private Kampfgruppe, let's see if we cannot find a common ground. It seems that in fact we have 2 topics here: 1 - The military influence of the 3rd Reich ...

The Waffen SS cannot be compared to any of the modern armies units. What we have, today, are conscripts or volunteers. None of them are POLITICAL fighters, with maybe the exception of few elite units in whatever is left of the Communist countries and, there, I am not sure. Unlike an average today's ...

No need to look too deep:
The SS Totenkopf in charge of the concentration camps.
Maximum horror, maximum casualties, they got it all.

Bio of one of the "best" of them:
http://www.adolfhitler.ws/lib/nsdap/Eicke.html

Hi Sid, A good friend of mine, member of the IRA, asked me to strongly challenge your statement regarding the degree of autonomy that the Irish people "enjoy" from the English... I tend to believe that the problem is tougher in Dublin than in Brest :( Now, concerning the French Britanny, t...

Very right. For 80 Bretons engaged in the Waffen SS, one can find easily 8,000 Bretons, or more, engaged with the Free French Forces or the Resistance. I love the story of the sailors and fishermen of the Sein Island in Britanny: In June of 1940, information reached the people of Sein via the boats ...

The "free French" did not never stop the combat against Germany and were recognized by all the allied states like legal interlocutors . Yes, they were recognised, but when? It took a hell of time and of efforts to De Gaulle to be recognised, especially by the USA. But I am afraid that the...