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I was also surprised to see "communist" guerrilla fighting so fiercely Franco's forces so long after the end of the civil war (one of the guerrillas mentions Eisenhower landing in Normandy, so it is easy to determine the period) but considering what I have heard of and read about that peri...

Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch-born movie director who left his homeland to teach Hollywood what the cinema is all about ( :D :D ) with Robocop, Basic Instinct and Total Recall (not to mention the curiously under-rated "Starship Troopers" which I personally consider as a true masterpiece) has r...

One link among many others:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/us/24 ... nted=print

Nearly 90 years after falling on the battlefield in July 1918 private Francis Lupo of the Big Red One has been recovered by French archeologists and identified by the Pentagon experts, owing to his DNA and his unusual size: 5 feet! Probably one of the shortest doughboys. He has been buried in Arling...

I would rather believe the specific motivation for deportation in this case is that she told lies to the US Immigration regarding her past rather than her involvement in nazi activities. As far as I can remember the judgment against Demjanjuk condemned him to deportation not specifically because he ...

Rajin Cajun wrote: Ignore the fact that the only other democracy in the world France supported the Confederacy!

Not so sure France was a democracy at the time...... Napoleon III was an emperor, not a president!

The true question here is, does the Pope, considering the heritage of Christianity, qualify to lecture other religions about violence? In other words, this guy is sitting on a powder keg and he is playing with matches.

Na, Joseph, bist du verrückt???

Helmut Von Moltke wrote:hi, thought it would be intresting to do a list of unbiased war movies.

What is an "unbiased" war movie??????

I found the text below presenting some WWII correspondence on Ebay: It is sometimes forgotten that the little nation of Iceland was of immense military importance both in World War II and throughout the Cold War. Early in World War II the British temporarily occupied Iceland to prevent it from falli...

Thanks a lot for the fast response!!

Could someone identify the unit to which 37168A was assigned?

Many thanks in advance!

Obviously Breker matches what could probably be called "Nazi aesthetics" and the obsession with perfect and arian representations of the human body satisfied the need of the nazi establishment for the vision of a pure German race, so in a way yes, Breker was part of the global nazi mytholo...

David, remember the horrible and utterly disrespectful things you publicly wrote to Mr L.L.?

Now, this is a lowdown in your file.....

Annelie wrote:Please, let me say that sometimes when Germans speak
in English what they say is not "translated" exactly what
they are saying.

As a professional translator I would enjoy some clarification about that....

I heard that the best German, immune from Americanization and Anglicization, was spoken in the ex-DDR....... :up: Also once while visiting Australia I found that the local German and Dutch communities published newspapers in their native language and I would tend to believe that in such a situation ...