More answers: https://www.quora.com/What-offended-the-German-military-when-the-American-military-came-to-Germany
To: daniel1212
They were pretty vexed that we didn’t run away when they started shooting at us.
2 posted on
03/07/2019 10:42:45 AM PST by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: daniel1212
Yeah, well the Germans must be slow learners, as we had to show them twice...
4 posted on
03/07/2019 10:45:04 AM PST by
Yo-Yo
( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: daniel1212
What-offended-the-German-military-when-the-American-military-came-to-GermanyI think the correct answer to that is...Who cares, they lost.
Of course that attitude is exactly what caused WWII.
5 posted on
03/07/2019 10:51:55 AM PST by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is what I read in the papers.)
To: daniel1212
My takeaway from the statements taken from the Germans was they they expected Americans to hide in the trenches and instead they advanced and patrolled outside the trenches. That shifted the balance because apparently nobody else on either side was doing that at the time.
6 posted on
03/07/2019 10:54:31 AM PST by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: daniel1212
The reason why the Americans didn't run away from the fight:
7 posted on
03/07/2019 10:55:24 AM PST by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: daniel1212
The Germans were also horrified by our use of 12 gauge buckshot trench guns. They filed a formal diplomatic protest at the use of a barbaric weapon.
8 posted on
03/07/2019 10:57:13 AM PST by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: daniel1212
Looks like poor Ludwig was a busy feller on that cold December 4....
Good thing for him that his story remained consistent through 4 interrogations.
9 posted on
03/07/2019 10:57:24 AM PST by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
To: daniel1212
German troops held their own against the rest of Europe for years. It really says quite a bit that they were immediately fazed by American troops.
To: daniel1212
Back then we had a much higher percentage of rural people who grew up with guns and hunting.
17 posted on
03/07/2019 11:12:55 AM PST by
SauronOfMordor
(Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
To: daniel1212
I remember an anecdote (can’t find the citation at the moment) where a German general prior to the US entering the war (possibly von Moltke the elder) who was asked what he would do if the Americans entered the war against the Central Powers. His response was something along the lines of:
“I would have the Berlin police department arrest them.”
If it was von Moltke, he died in 1916 so he did not get a chance to see how very wrong he was.
23 posted on
03/07/2019 11:27:59 AM PST by
Antoninus
("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
To: daniel1212
Your headline reminded me of the reported male British attitudes toward American fighting men who were stationed in Merry Old England. The Brits complained that our GIs were: “Overpaid, oversexed and over here!”
44 posted on
03/07/2019 12:47:17 PM PST by
Tucker39
("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
To: daniel1212
For a country lauded for their military prowess the Germans sure managed to get their asses kicked a lot over the last century.
69 posted on
03/08/2019 2:24:25 AM PST by
GaryCrow
To: daniel1212
Ludwig Weller really wanted to get his point across.
72 posted on
03/08/2019 3:00:29 PM PST by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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