Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


1 posted on 05/10/2020 11:09:26 AM PDT by thecodont
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-28 last
To: thecodont

My great-grandmother did much the same with the Nazis on her manor in Lithuania. Although she was fluent in German, she would only speak in French to the Germans, so the only officers that came by were French speaking.


33 posted on 05/10/2020 12:33:05 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: thecodont

I sure learned some things today. Thanks for posting.


35 posted on 05/10/2020 1:04:24 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: thecodont
Extremely interesting account. I read with a wry smile that just after the Allies invaded Europe, Winston Churchill refused to supply the islanders with food packages. Saying it was the Germans responsibility. British press did not report this to my knowledge. The story that was frozen in my mind as a child was this.

A British Red Cross ship arrived when the Germans cleared out of the island. They had British food parcels and American food parcels. The islanders swarmed the ship. They threw back the British food parcels and chose the American food parcels. I know for a fact, though supplied with healthy food in the war, luxury appetizing foods were very scarce. This for the ordinary Briton.

I also heard the American and Canadian food parcels were intercepted by the British bureaucrats. For themselves and friends. We kids got a bag of apples labelled from Canada as our food parcel. Distributed to the local school.

40 posted on 05/10/2020 1:48:38 PM PDT by Peter Libra
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: thecodont

This is a pleasant, charming article. The startling thing is that today’s socialists and today’s Islamic terrorists are both far worse than the Nazis that Dame Sibyl dealt with. We are facing a whole new level of evil - still Satan’s minions, but ratcheted up from even Germany in the 1940s.


51 posted on 05/10/2020 3:07:30 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: thecodont; All

Wonder Woman did a great job fighting the Nazis during the war.

She did so today in an episode from 1944.


52 posted on 05/10/2020 4:15:52 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: thecodont

A great post on a great day for mothers. I presume that she did get notified about her son’s death through the IRC (International Red Cross) before the War’s end. She played to her strengths, kudos to the Dame of Stark! She won her Game of Thrones!


53 posted on 05/10/2020 5:18:39 PM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: thecodont

Great article - thanks for posting it.


54 posted on 05/10/2020 5:35:29 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: thecodont

Fascinating. Thanks for posting.


56 posted on 05/11/2020 8:46:01 AM PDT by simpson96
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-28 last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson