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von Poop · 07-06-2007, 07:17 PM

Just pottered onto this fascinating site:

Hitler's Third Reich and World War Two in the News

Not sure if it's been linked here before but many of the stories certainly have, it operates as a general news feed for any contemporary references to WW2 in the news, always amazes me how many stories are still being thrown up so long after the event.

Cheers,
Adam.

Owen · 08-06-2007, 01:17 AM

mmmm some interesting stuff I agree.
Lots of leads to use on some of our threads.
This one caught my eye, would fit into swastika thread, hitlerite obsession thread etc etc

Nazi insignia allowed -- Anti-Nazi swastika OK
Germany's highest judicial court scrapped a ruling against a man convicted of breaching a ban on Nazi symbols by selling T-shirts with a crossed-out swastika. Juergen Kamm had been fined 3600 euros for "selling unconstitutional symbols." But the federal court of justice found that Kamm had committed no crime because the items he sold clearly carried an anti-Nazi message. The court did not believe that its ruling would be exploited by rightwingers as a loophole enabling them to wear Nazi insignia: "They will not wear Nazi insignia that have been corrupted in this way because they will see it as a travesty of something that they regard as 'holy.'"
by int | 2007-03-16 | Swastika: Nazi Sign, Symbol & Emblem

spidge · 08-06-2007, 04:09 AM

Great site Von Poop.

I have used it many times before and just looking again saw this which I was not aware of and it occured in my home town of Melbourne.

I don't read "The Age" so serves me right!

Sailors renact Dunkirk on Melbourne beach - National - theage.com.au

Peter Clare · 08-06-2007, 11:04 AM

Just added it to my favorites

von Poop · 08-06-2007, 11:15 AM

I hadn't even noticed the Vintage Vehicle section.
Looks like there's something on there for almost everyone's area of interest, I've had great fun following some of the leads on there.

Quote:

Tony Borglum has a thing for tanks. Last fall, after he and his father traveled to England to buy one, they bought 4 more with the idea of opening a tank-riding and obstacle course in their back yard. "We were there a day and a half, and I got to thinking: 'There's nothing like this in the U.S.,'" said Borglum, talking about the obstacle course in England where he bought the tanks and an armored personnel carrier. What happened has turned Waseca County into a battleground, because residents are less than thrilled by the idea of battle tanks and an armored personnel carrier rumbling across the land.

stevew · 08-06-2007, 11:32 AM

I notice on one of the links, all the photos are back to front

07-06-2007, 07:17 PM	#1 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 8,357	WW2 News Feed. Just pottered onto this fascinating site: Hitler's Third Reich and World War Two in the News Not sure if it's been linked here before but many of the stories certainly have, it operates as a general news feed for any contemporary references to WW2 in the news, always amazes me how many stories are still being thrown up so long after the event. Cheers, Adam. __________________ It's only the Internet.

08-06-2007, 04:09 AM	#3 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,025	Great site Von Poop. I have used it many times before and just looking again saw this which I was not aware of and it occured in my home town of Melbourne. I don't read "The Age" so serves me right! Sailors renact Dunkirk on Melbourne beach - National - theage.com.au __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

08-06-2007, 11:04 AM	#4 (permalink)
Peter Clare Legendary Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Neverland Posts: 5,545	Just added it to my favorites __________________ On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I heard that grumbling roar Of fighter planes; yet none were near And all around the sky was clear Borne on the wind a whisper came 'Though men grow old, they stay the same' And then I knew, unseen to eye The ageless Few were sweeping by

08-06-2007, 11:32 AM	#6 (permalink)
stevew Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hampshire Posts: 245	I notice on one of the links, all the photos are back to front __________________ In memory of 1891923 Sgt Albert George Edward Mount RAFVR, 115 Squadron Bomber Command, whose Lancaster was shot down on 8th June 1944 over Montchauvet, Yvelines.

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08-06-2007, 01:17 AM	#2 (permalink)
Owen Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 9,304	mmmm some interesting stuff I agree. Lots of leads to use on some of our threads. This one caught my eye, would fit into swastika thread, hitlerite obsession thread etc etc Nazi insignia allowed -- Anti-Nazi swastika OK Germany's highest judicial court scrapped a ruling against a man convicted of breaching a ban on Nazi symbols by selling T-shirts with a crossed-out swastika. Juergen Kamm had been fined 3600 euros for "selling unconstitutional symbols." But the federal court of justice found that Kamm had committed no crime because the items he sold clearly carried an anti-Nazi message. The court did not believe that its ruling would be exploited by rightwingers as a loophole enabling them to wear Nazi insignia: "They will not wear Nazi insignia that have been corrupted in this way because they will see it as a travesty of something that they regard as 'holy.'" by int \| 2007-03-16 \| Swastika: Nazi Sign, Symbol & Emblem

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