[stormhill]

There was a British reporter in Hitler's airplane once before the war. He remarked how the SS guards were showing each other pictures of their boyfriends with remarks like: "aren't his eyes sweet?" But, when the plane landed, they got out and beat the crap out of the crowd on the ground.

No one has ever questioned their bravery and recklessness in battle. They fought without any sign of fear.

[ToastedHead]

I have never thought about reporters on our side being allowed into Hitler’s plane. I guess how else would we know those kind of things. It makes me realize how recent WW2 was, though. They were doing the same things we do today, with the reporters. It wasn’t the way distant past the way it seems in my head. That’s how I imagine my kids thinking about 9/11. Like how I think of Pearl Harbor.

[KAESNO2]

>>There was a British reporter in Hitler’s airplane once before the war. He remarked how the SS guards were showing each other pictures of their boyfriends with remarks like: “aren’t his eyes sweet?” But, when the plane landed, they got out and beat the crap out of the crowd on the ground.<<

That’s quite interesting, although I wonder if it was not the SS but the SA, which was a really butch homo crowd, until Hitler had them all killed. ... In any case, would you have a link?