Posted on 02/03/2022 11:24:01 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Sorry, Mr. Vigilanteman, but a few bits in your map might not be correct.
You see, Stuttgart had been taken on the 22nd of April by the Free French forces, while the Americans took the eastern suburbs in the same days.
However, as Stuttgart was supposed to be in the US zone of occupation, the French ceded it to the US army on the 5th of July.
The final line of demarcation between both zones was, however, really formed by the present-day Autobahn 8.
Sorry, my bad :-)
Nobody does authoritarian like the Germans. Imagine the 20th Century without Germans.
Once the Germans were all warlike and mean
But that couldn’t happen again
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they’ve hardly bothered us since then
-Tom Lehrer
Who did nazi this coming?
Gentlemen,
in a sense you are both correct. On one side, feuds between nobles were not unheard of, like “infightings” (is that proper English?) between the ruling class, but OTOH:
My countrymen were regarded as “obedient” by one French observer in the Middle Ages, because, more often than not, conflicts between different social classes were usually solved by negotiation and compromise, not bloodshed.
There would have little to be gained from the latter, since in medieval society everybody depended on everybody else:
- the peasants on the nobles who defended them (medieval knights were, in fact, something like a warrior caste),
- the nobles and the Church on the peasants to provide for them,
- and every layman depended on the Church for spiritual guidance and erudition (most teachers and savants of the time were clerics).
This society was not called “Domus Dei”, the house of God, without a reason: the term “society” did not appear until the 1700s, iirc.
You’re repeating yourself again with your poetry and your memes.
I think, anybody on this forum knows that, apparently, you hate my people indisciminately - and me personally, I suppose. I regret this very much.
Clearly yes, as they wouldn’t be tyrants otherwise.
Very interesting posts! Thank you
You are very welcome. Thank you for your kind words, too :-)
Coming soon to America?
We hate you more!
surname,Boley....this guy isn't even German,
judging from his surname, info on the internet!
He's a commie Englishman who thinks he's chosen to rule the wogs!
You can see how Bolay families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Bolay family name was found in the USA, the UK, and Canada between 1880 and 1920. The most Bolay families were found in the USA in 1920. In 1880 there was 1 Bolay family living in Indiana. This was about 50% of all the recorded Bolay's in the USA. Indiana and 1 other state had the highest population of Bolay families in 1880. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Bolay surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
If it wasn’t the Germans, it would have been the French, or Italians, or Russians. The USA is going down the same road…
Sounds familiar…
Interesting,,,speaking of moot points...I know this old German guy who describes how when he was a teenager, the SS came to his village and were looking for kids to fight to stop the allied advance from the west. He and a lot of others hid out in the hills (Odenwald) and resisted the fanatic freaks. Would be nice to have a map of those!
Good one!
Very interesting thoughts, sir, but I’m afraid that in this case, this mayor is most probably of German heritage :-)
You see, there are some surnames in both English and German, which are relatively similar. Furthermore, there are quite a few Bolay families to be found in the Stuttgart region, among them a clockmaker and an entrepreneur.
In German, the name is also pronounced somewhat differently than in English. It sounds like: ˈboːlaɪ̯.
The name is derived from the personal name of a late Roman martyr named Pelagius of Constance, who was referred to as “Sant Bolai” in late medieval vernacular (i.e. non-literary) German. His relics have found their way to Constance, which is situated in Southwestern Germany as well, like Stuttgart.
Maybe the English version of this last name traces back to the same saint; that would explain the similarity in both languages :-)
That’s what I’m afraid of, too. We’re being faced with a very special kind of authoritanism, which, alas, has been spreading all over the West like a plague of the mind :-(
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