Is it just me ?

Cough cough!

Second before last quote.

Sorry
You can take the man out of the ghetto, but you cant take the ghetto out of the man.........

 

We have always found the Irish a bit odd, They refuse to be English - Winston S Churchill

 

On the down side, our very age means that we have to be constantly vigilant if we are to hold the fort for those who are no longer here and, trite as that may sound, I believe that to be completely true.

Ron


Searching for something else brought me to this very interesting thread !


Ron, you are absolutely right.

"most" soldiers was completely the wrong wording to use, and good on you
for calling it out.

 

His breeches look like jhodpurs and he is wearing knee-high boots. The rifle appears to be the length of a carbine. My opinion is that he is German cavalry. personally I dont care what branch of the service the b--tard was in,I just hope he's roasting in h-ll.

 

As said earlier in the thread, this photograph



is just part of another photograph:



It was one of those that caused a temporary crash of the Wehrmachtsausstellung because the exposition included the snippet of the image rather than the whole of it, and the situation on the full image is clearly not as obvious.

 

Sorry must be my eyes, but that bottom picture just looks like they are shooting at a group of people rather than a woman and child So what difference does that make.

 

Sorry must be my eyes, but that bottom picture just looks like they are shooting at a group of people rather than a woman and child So what difference does that make.

I agree.

 

Looking at the total picture of Geramn atrocities, thus is but a minor event....... I loath the SS, and took no chances with them when we captured the evil shitehawks....Still do!

 

goog morning all.first its not just you ron.and many others who dont forgive and forget.i for one get really pissed off when in my opinion.do gooders and the like.and mostly people who were never in the services,or were not around when the war was on write books about it on information gleened from war vets.and twist it to there own opinons.if a menber has a rely who was in the S.S. hyde your head in shame.they were all a pack of bastard,they enjoyed there work.as some of the photoes posted show.and they are just minor atrocities in the records of the S.S,personaly i was brought up that the only goog german...........was a..........german.i leave you to fill in the blanks.you may have guessed i am not the forgiving type.i personaly think they.would do it all again given the chance.have a goog one,bernard85B)

 

My Grandfather the young man in my Avatar ,John Known as Jack did not like The Japenese or Germans.
He even hated seeing, Japenese cars , now that is all you see here, now!....
He could not forget or forgive, and I understand that.

When I see SS Reenactors, I always cringe, just dont do it, .. So what if they had "Hugo Boss" uniforms they stood for total madness.

 

My Grandfather the young man in my Avatar ,John Known as Jack did not like The Japenese or Germans.
He even hated seeing, Japenese cars , now that is all you see here, now!....
He could not forget or forgive, and I understand that.

When I see SS Reenactors, I always cringe, just dont do it, .. So what if they had "Hugo Boss" uniforms they stood for total madness.

Sig

I've known a few veterans who felt the very same way. One was virulently anti-Japanese after his 4 years as a POW. He strongly felt that it would have been a betrayal of his lost comrades to forgive or forget and he didn't have their permission to do so. Right or wrong, I think he had earned the right to feel any way he liked. He carried those views consistently until the day he passed away and I had respect for the integrity and loyalty behind it.

 

Sorry must be my eyes, but that bottom picture just looks like they are shooting at a group of people rather than a woman and child So what difference does that make.

Why crop the image in the first place? (That is not a rhetorical question.)
It does make a difference because without the cropping it is unclear what they are aiming at. Considering the fact that "the Germans" had some practice in murdering people on a greater scale (even before June '41), the setting in the photograph is not a typical execution - typical as in logistically most convenient and as easy on the murderers' psyche as possible.

Besides, why choose an ambiguous photograph to illustrate German crimes when there are many photographs that are clear?

As for the statement that "the only good German is a dead German" (did I fill that in correctly?) and that everybody who had a relative in the SS should hide their head in shame, that makes me cringe. I see where you are coming from but for goodness' sake, you English would still be at a bloody war with France if one was to blame for one's forefathers' actions!!

 

As for the statement that "the only good German is a dead German" (did I fill that in correctly?) and that everybody who had a relative in the SS should hide their head in shame, that makes me cringe. I see where you are coming from but for goodness' sake, you English would still be at a bloody war with France if one was to blame for one's forefathers' actions!! -----------------No I know some nice people who are German and get on great with them ,NOW having said that, I just hope that pictures of this nature continue to be shown,so that our future generations continue to see what monsters are created from war.B/B2323

 

As for the statement that "the only good German is a dead German"

Where did i state that
Obviously that was in reference to post 109, not yours.
The first and second paragraph were a reply to your post.