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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It’s always a bad idea to underestimate your opponent whether in sports, business or war.
It really depended on where the German POWs were being held; the way the Americans treated the Germans in Europe was much worse than the way the Americans treated the Germans here in the US.
In fact, a German POW was more likely to die in captivity under the Americans than he was under the British.
We fought them in North Africa.
But really, we didn't do that much.
Roughly 70–80% of all German military casualties occurred on the Eastern Front.
We didn't fight over there at Stalingrad.
You are counting numbers of infantry killed, there was much more going on than that, for instance for part of that war my father’s ship was fighting Germany out of Brazil.
What industrial might of the USSR are you speaking of? We didn’t need the Soviets at all, and it would have been better if we had allowed Germany and Russia to slug it out and then taken out the winner.
I recall an American officer watching over captured German officers a day or so after D day. A GERMAN officer watching a ship unload said, “ Where are your horses?” The American officer stated to a fellow officer “I think we are going to win this war”
By 1942, despite the shock of invasion, the USSR was producing more tanks, artillery, and aircraft than Germany.
This industrial backbone enabled Soviet armies to survive the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk, and eventually push westward.
Stalin famously said the war was won by the “metal of the Urals” — the relocated industrial base was decisive.
“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.”
I recall reading about such a situation. I recall that it was VP Nixon touring the village and, having seen the kitchen with all its modern appliances, someone in the group opened the refrigerator to see what what was in it. It held stacks of ‘news’ papers!
I don’t recall if it was plugged in.
I don’t think you are correct, in fact I think this a malicious slander against our greatest generation. America faithfully observed the Geneva conventions. Britain on the other hand were understandably less kind due to the relentless bombing of London and the countryside.
Soviet propaganda nonsense. Simply not true, you ought to know better.
“We were told fairy tales by criminals.”
Kind of what modern day Democrat/Globalist/Commies are doing to control their Useful Idiots.
Elite Capture, then Nudge and Propaganda for the rest.
Been that way since the beginning.
I read a book about that, what the German POW’s reaction to the US.
As an executive of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, during WWII, my dad was charged by the Coast Guard to accompany troop trains carrying German POWs from their debarkation in New Jersey (Bayonne?) to a POW camp in Maryland. He often remarked at the astonishment of the prisoners upon finding a dynamic and flourishing USA.
I see what you did there. RIP Norm MacDonald.
“You know, the more I hear about this Hitler fellow, the less I care for him.”
roughly 20% of russian armor and over 50% of it’s trucks came as lend lease. we not only made them we shipped them.
A hell of a lot of those Hessians and Brit’s stayed in the colonies and planted roots.
Good one by Norm.
Unfortunately, we are not as we were then.
Every year we go to a quilting retreat in Crossville, TN, at a 4H camp on POW Rd. It was a WWII prisoner-of-war camp for Germans. They liked the area so much that many returned after the war, or never left.
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