Thread: WW2 qusetions

Originally Posted by drivesafe

Sorry to hear about your dad.

More bombs were dropped on Malta that any other place during the war.

The Italian people never wanted to fight against the allies but the average italian was scared of Mussolini.

Heres some more facts relating to the original question.

Even though the dutch were commonly accepted as being conquered by the Germans, more Dutch VOLUNTEERED to fight in the German army than any other country and more jews were sent to the gas chambers from Holland than any other country.

Yet at the same time, In Denmark, the Germans ordered that from the following day, all jewish Danes must wear a yellow star of David on their cloths. On the following day all jewish Danes had the star of David on their cloths, as did every Christian Dane, including the King and Queen.

That stuffed the Germans.

Actually Kong Kristian had the yellow star sewn on his clothes and said he would wear any insignia any of his loyal subjects were directed to wear by the occupying force and directed all Danes to do the same. Virtually all followed suit. Danes are about the most tolerant people on this earth, and have almost no religious or ethnic discrimination. Kongen had the habit of going for a morning walk in downtown Kobnhavn, all dressed up in a three piece suit, homburg hat, and walking stick. The Germans decided to enforce the appearance of occupation and demanded that Kongen be escorted "for his own safety" by a formal SS guard. Kongen informed them that he had a guard of 3,000,000 Danes and an escort was not required, but the Germans insisted. Next morning a full dress uniform guard of black SS was assembled outside Amalienborg to escort Kongen, only to find that Kongen that morning decided to go for a ride on a horse and the SS Guard had to sprint after Kongen on his horse. They did not try this again. Almost all Danes of the Jewish faith were removed across the sound to Sweden by the resistance. Danes of that generation still totally dislike Germans and tend to do things like saying " that happened the same week we beat the bastard Germans at soccer".

Originally Posted by skidmark77

wow
... something more evil than the Nazis got him, C.....

Canadians? Never!

Or maybe Calabrians - those mafioso are pretty pretty evil at times.

Diana

No offense intended.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

The most fascinating thing was that at the end of the War, many senior German officers admitted to the Yanks, that they had lost the war in the West but then turned around and suggested that the Western Allies (Brittan and the US) should join with the Germans and defeat Stalin.

How different would be the World be, if that had happened.

That's precisely the deal the Japanese offered MacArthur, and he accepted. 40 years of Cold War against Communism followed.

How different the world might be if he DECLINED.

Originally Posted by Jamo

Einstein fled to switzerland well before the war as he was at odds with the german way of thinking. He hated their rigid society. Plus he was a jew and was on their hit list. Indeed, he wasn't that much into his own religion until anti-semitism began to rise ion Germany.

Mao killed more than Stalin and Hitler put together (an estimated 70million+ chinese).

Stalin was reputely stunned when Hitler turned on him. He supposedly wouldn't listen to advisers when they told him not to trust Hitler.

Stalin also kept his best troops behind the main force, so they could kill anyone who tried to run.

An interesting fact is that when germany invaded France, the french merchant fleet did what the french do best in war and sat in harbour and handed over their ships. The Norwegians (who had the biggest merchant fleet in the world at the time) saw the germans coming and set sail for england.

More than a Million French soldiers never fired a shot in defence of their country, Regards Frank.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Actually Kong Kristian had the yellow star sewn on his clothes and said he would wear any insignia any of his loyal subjects were directed to wear by the occupying force and directed all Danes to do the same. Virtually all followed suit. Danes are about the most tolerant people on this earth, and have almost no religious or ethnic discrimination. Kongen had the habit of going for a morning walk in downtown Kobnhavn, all dressed up in a three piece suit, homburg hat, and walking stick. The Germans decided to enforce the appearance of occupation and demanded that Kongen be escorted "for his own safety" by a formal SS guard. Kongen informed them that he had a guard of 3,000,000 Danes and an escort was not required, but the Germans insisted. Next morning a full dress uniform guard of black SS was assembled outside Amalienborg to escort Kongen, only to find that Kongen that morning decided to go for a ride on a horse and the SS Guard had to sprint after Kongen on his horse. They did not try this again. Almost all Danes of the Jewish faith were removed across the sound to Sweden by the resistance. Danes of that generation still totally dislike Germans and tend to do things like saying " that happened the same week we beat the bastard Germans at soccer".

My brother lived in Denmark for several years in the seventies - he commented to me that the foreign language learnt at school by Danes educated prewar or during the war was German - those educated after the war usually learnt English (in addition almost all learnt at least one other Scandinavian language).

John