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Posted on 08/30/2025 12:49:47 PM PDT by johnnygeneric
We were told America was a mongrel nation, weak, divided, controlled by Jews, incapable of military prowess. Every day I am here, I see the opposite. This is the most organized, unified, and powerful nation on earth. We were told fairy tales by criminals.
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D’oh!
Omygosh. Socialists hoodwinked people even back then? At least they’re consistent.
OF course, we understand that infusions of VAST quantities of Federal funds created a lot of this. But there was already a massive base of manufacturing in place to either use or build upon specifically for the war effort. I can not help but wonder if we were ever called upon to rampup manufacturing for another massive war if we would even be capable of such a magnitude in time before the war would be ended with us...not victors, but the defeated.
Similar to what the Brit and Hessian soldiers saw when they got here during the revolution, hearty, strapping, well-fed Americans with plenty of food, orchards and outdoors.
ansel12, let’s continue to hope that whatever enemy we face they will always thing the less of us.
German prisoners were often plied with coffee in order to get them to talk. Coffee wasn’t only unavailable to Germans, they were disheartened when they realized that we were had enough shipping to bring something as simple as coffee. They had been told the U-boats had destroyed our logistics.
Our prisoner rations were considered luxurious which caused a backlash, especially after the concentration camps were found. The prisoners were an important source of labor.
I worked for EMS in high school in an ambulance. Unbeknown to me, some buildings that I drove by daily were former POW barracks and a mess hall. They are still standing today and in use as a plumbing warehouse. They were located on a military depot.
In the cities the factories were functioning full bore, cars and trucks everywhere, lights on all over the place (inland), tons of food and no one as deprived as THEY had seen back home in their own country.
One soldier said “They lied to us and said the US was on it's a%$, but instead it's obvious their cars and trains are running, factories working, etc. “
In US prison camps, Germans had it so good that the locals called the camp the "Fritz Ritz".
But once German held US soldiers came home with stories about THEIR treatment, the Germans held here saw a marked decline in the quality and quantity of their food. Also, guards holding Germans here became MUCH less friendly.
Some Germans who got captured and held in Europe said Americans amazed them because if you asked for a cigarette, they'd throw you a pack. Also, Americans hopped out of Jeeps or trucks and left the thing running. Germany was SO short on fuel that leaving a car running could get you court marshaled or at least cost you your stripes!
Germany had no chance. They took on the combined might of the Soviet and American war machines.
tiny little Germany took on the world—- and it was close.
Not really. We didn't fight the Germans that much. We were just getting started.
Made me cry.
Industrial might wins wars.
Which is why we need to claw back as much production from China as possible as soon as possible.
(We were told fairy tales by criminals.)
They had CNN and MSNBC?
“”””Not really. We didn’t fight the Germans that much. We were just getting started.””””
We were fighting Germany a lot, globally, and on the seas.
Beale AFB?
The Hessians could have been offered land and an opportunity to bring their families from the old country. Did it happen?
When the Soviet Union was still terrorizing the world, they had their own Potemkin villages. Any foreigner in the USSR was only allowed to “see” these modern towns, full of everyday supplies, even toilet paper. Foreigners were not allowed to see the general degradation. The USSR was a Third World country with a First World military.
When some Soviet leaders and bureaucrats flew over parts of the USA, they thought we had just a few Potemkin Villages also.
There was one Soviet leader who did not just get to see the suburbs in many, many States (no Potemkins), he witnessed the MASSIVE waves of grain in America’s heartland. When the Soviet leader returned to Moscow, I believe he fired (or worse) the Director of The People’s Agriculture.
Greensboro NC Overseas Replacement Depot (ORD to locals).
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