Posted on 04/22/2020 7:15:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Kelly’s Heroes 2 - the logistics of moving that gold and not getting caught.
Peking Man was part of a fairly good Hawaii 5-0 episode.
“Rommel was largely apolitical. His involvement in the July 20 bomb plot was never really proved and he took the out Hitler gave him simply to spare his wife and son the wrath of the SS.”
Aside from his family Rommel was a soldier first and last. Without doubt he took the cyanide to save his family from certain death.
Rommel also had a policy of “war without hate”. He was known for honorable treatment of prisoners of war. In the North Africa campaigns he used Italian troops to guard POW’s whenever possible so he could have as many German troops on the front as possible and he was assured the Italians wouldn’t mistreat the POW’s.
As to the bomb plot his COS Hans Speidel was in it up to his eyes. I have read speculation that Speidel implicated Rommel in order to save his own life. That implication was enough for Bormann, Himmler and especially Goering to call for Rommels death.
Within the last few years I remember a trove of looted paintings were found in some guys attic in Munich Germany.
https://www.history.com/news/1-35-billion-in-nazi-looted-art-found-in-munich
The drab, nondescript exterior of Gurlitt’s Munich apartment block gave no hint of the treasures hidden inside. Amid piles of garbage and expired food in the vacant apartment, German authorities discovered a trove of nearly 1,400 priceless and wholly unknown artworks by some of the 20th century’s greatest masters that were confiscated by the Nazis.
The stash, valued by investigators at $1.35 billion, included 121 framed pieces stacked on a shelf and 1,258 unframed works piled in drawers. The find, kept secret for a year-and-a-half by authorities and first reported this past weekend by German newsmagazine Focus, included works by Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and previously unknown pieces by Marc Chagall, Otto Dix and Henri Matisse. The oldest of the pieces, including an engraving by Albrecht Dürer, date from the 1500s.
“Certainly they’re no good at war”
Any capacity for war making on the Italian peninsula died with the Roman empire.
Two world wars between 1914 and 1945 did the same for Germany, France and England.
I think it’s been a good thing that the Germans were gotten out of the habit of making war.
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The irony is the Visigoths and Ostrogoths were the Germanic branches that ended the Western Roman empire.
It isn’t just the Germans. All of Europe has been wussified. I guess two world wars were too much for the entire continent. Too bad though. Now there is no one to stop the muslim invasion and subjugation of Europe.
You’re right. I figure in about 25 to 30 years tops and they’ll be no more white, Christian Europe. The Muslims will do it what they did to Constantinople.
The way I see it Poland, Hungary, and a few other former Soviet Block states are the only ones that may have the chutzpah to retain their freedom. Having been oppressed for over 70 years they aren’t likely to give in easy.
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