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World War II-era bomb explodes in center of German town (Video 1:33)
Fox News ^ | 8-29-2012 | NA

Posted on 08/29/2012 2:04:06 PM PDT by servo1969

Raw video: Explosive experts detonate remains of 550-pound bomb causing fires, damage to buildings.

(Excerpt) Read more at video.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: History; Local News; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; bomb; germany; wwii
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To: crazydad
PS, even THEY expected this sort of thing...Look at Goebbels whipping up the crowd at the Berlin Sportspalast in 1944 asking if they're ready for total war......of course the crowd yells "Ja!"and "Heil!"


21 posted on 08/29/2012 9:55:52 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Tainan; archy; SLB

Even older civil war cannon balls are still a valid uxo threat here in the conus .

....Many render safes when stationed in Europe with WW I and II era ordnance found during surface and subsurface clearances or by civilian construction crews and farmers. Then there is crap the resistance and other underground groups cached that pops up still to this day by mother nature or human nature.

Business is boomin still..... Nite !


22 posted on 08/29/2012 9:56:24 PM PDT by Squantos
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To: dfwgator

PS....

You sure about that?

Remember, were talking about the Warlike Hun, here.....

We thought they lost their taste for war after the Hundred Years War......


23 posted on 08/29/2012 10:08:39 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Mastador1
Oh, there may have been a few and a damn few who objected.

Your nobama analogy would be OK if NO ONE objected, even if not voted for him. Not speaking up and hanging around is tacit approval! Understand the danger of speaking up, but it was not impossible to leave either Germany or Japan.

24 posted on 08/29/2012 10:10:42 PM PDT by X-spurt (It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Well, it seems to be working so far.


25 posted on 08/29/2012 10:10:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mastador1
Maybe you should forget the brainwashing and speak to the people who had to live through the times.

Like the European Jews, oh wait, you can't.

26 posted on 08/29/2012 10:12:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Fiji Hill

As demonstrated by far over the top actions both countries citizenry sure seemed enthused for underground objecting!


27 posted on 08/29/2012 10:15:04 PM PDT by X-spurt (It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: dfwgator

If they can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.


28 posted on 08/29/2012 10:16:34 PM PDT by X-spurt (It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: Fiji Hill

The blood of any innocent Germans is on the hands of Schickelgruber and Company, not the Allies. They started it, we finished it.


29 posted on 08/29/2012 10:18:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mastador1

Thank God YOU weren’t in any decision-making capacity back then.

Yeah....some of those Germans may not have supported Hitler.

Maybe they worked in the German defense industry, though. Legitimate target....along with trhey’re families and homes.

Lord Charwell, Churchill’s close advisor, called it “de-housing the Nazi workforce.”

Grow up, in the industrial age, civilians are legitimate targets.


30 posted on 08/29/2012 10:20:23 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

If it wasn’t for Kurt Vonnegut’s book, Dresden would have been just another bombing mission.


31 posted on 08/29/2012 10:21:49 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

What scares me, is in the not too distant future, all they will teach about WWII is going to be about Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and how “evil” we were.


32 posted on 08/29/2012 10:23:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: X-spurt

I take it you did see “Valkyrie” and “The Last Mission”......

If you had you’d know there were active resistances in both Germany and Japan.


33 posted on 08/29/2012 10:24:28 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

“The Last Days of Sophie Scholl” is another good movie. But even there I would say that the members of The White Rose knew that ultimately Germany would pay a heavy price for their sins.


34 posted on 08/29/2012 10:27:11 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

There were few innocent Germans then.

Churchill was taken to task in Parliament by the Archbishop of Canterbury over bombing German cities. The good ABC asked how could they in good conscience bomb German children?

Churchill’s answer?

“At least the little buggers won’t grow up to be Nazis.”


35 posted on 08/29/2012 10:28:28 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Well....him and that Holocaust-denying revisionist David Irving.


36 posted on 08/29/2012 10:31:49 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: dfwgator

Don’t forget the latest revisionism.

We brought Pearl Harbor upon ourselves because that evil Asian-hater Roosevelt cut off the Japs’ oil and scrap-metal........


37 posted on 08/29/2012 10:34:19 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: dfwgator

Fantastic movie.

There’s another version of the White Rose/Scholl case made in Germany, (with subtitles, but turn ‘em off if you know the language), I saw once on DVD years ago.

Its magnificent.


38 posted on 08/29/2012 10:41:05 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: dfwgator

One advantage to warfare from the Civil War through WWII, was that the nations fighting, that is the body of people composing those nations, had to endure a lengthy campaign taxing the entirety of the national resources. It was total war.

A major consequence of that type of strategic warfare was that it did change the volition of at least one nation, generally the loser.

Warfare, as we experience it today in the US, is so distant from the national psyche, that the only people fighting the war are those in the military itself, which is a very distinct minority. The only national perception of the war as been diluted to a comparative politic amongst cultural groups given equal standing within our body politic.

We’re a divided house and won’t stand when we allow the enemy within, nor will we likely succomb to a calamitous downfall, but we simply will experience a subtle collapse into an indiscernible quagmire. The final result might not be much more discernible than those photos of WWII Dresden after the radical Muslim influence continues to be tolerated.

The only real differences is that our national volition to oppose our enemies likely won’t change until we are defeated. Should that happen, I don’t see any other international powers with God-given virtue, such as the US had at the beginning and end of WWII to rebuild those who had been destroyed.

Perhaps we are simply a testimony for future governance that any government which tolerates such evil rejecting Christ and God’s provision, will ultimately fail.


39 posted on 08/29/2012 10:45:18 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

The actor they got to portray Freisler in that movie was dead on. Makes me happy knowing that bastard bought it during an Allied Air Raid.


40 posted on 08/29/2012 10:46:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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