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16-05-2008, 09:51 AM
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| I Like Tanks.   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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 | Degrelle's letter to the Pope. Morning. Belgian traitor Leon Degrelle wrote a rather repellent letter to the Pope in 1979 relating to Auschwitz. It's something of a classic in denialist balls. Just trying to find a source I can copy the entire text from. So far I can only find abridged copies on respectable sites. The full text/pdf versions seem to be on pages I can't bring myself to download or quote anything from due to their nazi/denialist nature. I'd like to see one that there was less chance of an editors pencil having been applied to. Anybody know a source? (great caution always required when looking for web-sources on denial, so many sites masking their political intentions beneath claims for 'real history'...) Anything on how this 'hero' is perceived in Belgium would be interesting too. Cheers, Adam.
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16-05-2008, 10:19 AM
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| Ostfront is where its at!   Join Date: Apr 2004
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| Well it appears he had links to the Institute of Historical review. See this article about the institute: Institute for Historical Review
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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16-05-2008, 10:27 AM
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| I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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| He's something of a poster-boy for many dodgy organisations, particularly in the US where his military success seems to be the only point of reference for many. Choosing to almost completely ignore the treachery, nazi, & Neo-nazi behaviour, or where it's not ignored regarding it as normal patriotism... The web's littered with hagiographic treatments (not unlike the Peiper ones so common everywhere) so it's hard to find more neutral coverage. Is there a sensible/neutral book on the man that anyone's read? Cheers, Adam.
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