Posted on 04/11/2005 7:30:08 PM PDT by Diva Betsy Ross
Architecture & Anarchy...
Thought you'd like that one.
Kind of reminds me of my son's bedroom when he was little, hyper and crazy about legos.
Kind of makes you wonder about the Radical Mental Health workshop...
Hey! Thanks for posting that, I really enjoyed it, laughed myself silly.
Hi Yehuda...thanks for the joke.
You guys seem to be the history junkies here.
I found the entire text online for:
THE U.S. ARMY IN THE OCCUPATION OF GERMANY
1944-1946
by
Earl F. Ziemke
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/other/us-army_germany_1944-46_index.htm
(Of course, I found it while looking for two simple statistics -- our occupying force numbers in Germany after VE Day and in 1950 -- and got sidetracked reading.) ;)
Some info I have found:
re food shortages
On November 3 the Weser Bote, published in Bremen, published that “beer brewing has been stopped in Bavaria because the barley must be used to make flour.”
re sanitation
...in the first months of the occupation was swept by waves of dysentery, typhoid fever, and diphtheria, all spread by sewage leaking into the water system from fractured sewer pipes. Usually the adults and older children survived, but the first wave of dysentery, which the Berliners called hunger typhoid, killed 65 percent of the newborn babies.
re displaced persons (DPs) in Germany
Many farm communities found a new use for old air raid sirens: to warn of approaching DP bands. In Munich, DPs constituted 4 percent of the population but were responsible for 75 percent of the crimes.
re carryover problems caused by when the government runs the schools (partially paraphrased) ;)
Grades one through eight opened on 1 October with slightly more students than in 1939, but with about half the teachers and buildings. Because the teachers working before the war were as politically pure as military government and the CIC could get them, qualified teachers were those who had been “away from the job” for a long period of time. The average age of the teachers in Munich was fifty-seven, and the pupil-teacher ratio was eighty-nine to one. Textbooks had to be revamped totally to rid them of propaganda, such as a seventh-grade arithmetic text analysis of the economic and territorial losses the text claimed were “unfairly brought about by the Treaty of Versailles."
Fawnn, that's not the half of it. You should do some research on just how long there was terrorism by fanatical Nazis after the war ended.
What is happening now in Iraq re terrorism is peanuts.
Shhhh! The MSM doesn't breathe a word of this to anyone.
Oops! In my previous post re "is peanuts," should have read, "is peanuts, in comparison."
Not demeaning what our troops are doing now!
Heaven save them!
,,, fall is here and it's great... my favourite season. It was like summer yesterday but it's overcast today. We wanted summer this year and we got it. Can't complain at all. I've got plenty of firewood stashed and ready for some long days at home. June thru August will be the coldest, but nothing like the winters you know.
I don't get it. :) hehehe!
Hi Kathy!!!!
Hope everything is just Duckie for you!!!!
Thanks....here's another joke I picked up somewhere.
A guy is sitting at home when he hears a knock at the door. He opens the door and sees a snail on the porch. He picks up the snail and throws it as far as he can. Three years later, there’s a knock on the door. He opens it and sees the same snail. The snail says ‘What the hell was that all about?"
A man feared his wife was not hearing as well as she used
to, and he thought she might need a hearing aid.
Not quite sure how to approach her, he called
the family doctor to discuss the problem.
The doctor told him there is a simple informal test the
husband could perform to give the doctor a better
idea about her hearing loss.
"Here's what you do," said the doctor. "Stand about 40 feet
away from her and in a normal conversational speaking tone
see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then
20 feet, and so on until you get a response."
That evening, the wife is in the kitchen cooking dinner,
and he was in the den. He says to himself, "I'm about
40 feet away. Let's see what happens."
In a normal tone he asks, "Honey, what's for dinner?"
No response.
So the husband moves to closer to the kitchen, about 30
feet from his wife, and repeats, "Honey, what's for dinner?"
Still no response.
Next he moves into the dining room where he is about 20
feet from his wife and asks, "Honey, what's for dinner?"
Again, no response.
So, he walks up to the kitchen door, about 10 feet
away. "Honey, what's for dinner?"
Again, there is no response.
So he walks right up behind her. "Honey, what's for dinner?"
(I just love this.)
"Earl, for the 5th time, CHICKEN!"
BTT!!!!!!
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WHat do you call a crazy person that has to go to the bathroom?
A Pee-nut
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What did the pig say to the bacon?
MOM!
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