New probe into German soldiers pictured driving 'Nazi' emblem army car

Daily Mail ^ | 1st November 2006

[lizol]

The conduct of German soldiers was first called into question when photos of them posing with skulls surfaced

[cartan]

I guess they're bored. Transfer them to the front.

[lizol]

The emblem mentioned in the article


Afrika Korps symbol

[2banana]

Hey - these Germans are only there because they didn't study and do good in school - so now they are stuck in Afghanistan...

[Blue Jays]

Hi All-

All the handwringers should be comforted by the fact that Muslims in that geographical area would likely pose with German skulls...with the brains, hair, eyes, skin, and face still attached and dripping with infidel blood.

~ Blue Jays ~

[skeeter]

Although I understand eastern Europe's sensitivity to resergent naziism, this is a bit of a stretch.

Folks should save their outrage for something more significant than a few soldiers playing with an old skull.

[lizol]

German Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK) troops







KSK in Afghanistan

[SF Republican]

There is a BIG difference between an Iron Cross and a Swastika

[lizol]

Ping

[Jeff Chandler]

There is a BIG difference between an Iron Cross and a Swastika

Indeed.

[lizol]

Yep, there is, definitely.

[mkjessup]

Hey, better Taliban skulls than German and/or Allied skulls.

I daresay Rommel would allow himself a grin or two.

This is much ado about nothing.

[lizol]

I'd say it may be some kind of leftist German MSM campaign to withdraw the German troops from Afghanistan.

[1rudeboy]

I guess they're bored. Transfer them to the front.

You cannot be serious. Just where is the front, exactly?

[lizol]

I think they are in the front already.

[lizol]

Ping

[1rudeboy]

Absolutely. The skull photos are something like three years old, and just happened to appear when Germany is debating a greater role for its troops abroad.

[Petronski]

I thought cartan was being sarcastic.

[Spktyr]

If memory serves, the Afrika Korps under Rommel was the only major Nazi German army that actively avoided committing atrocities and went out of their way to make sure that non-combatants were properly classed and evacuated from their areas of operation. Rommel also made a point of transferring out Nazi zealots and getting rid of SS officers. If nothing else, the Germans *should* have kept the palm tree icon around (minus the swastika, of course) for a unit, because the Afrika Korps was worth remembering, IMHO.

[Robe]

In Gulf War I, The German armor were flying a confederate Flags from their antennas.
When asked what that was all about, the reply was that they were Rommel's old desert corps unit. And said Rommel devised his armor tactics based on Jacksons Valley campaign, stayed in Winchester Pa, and traveled extensively throughout the Shenandoah Valley in the 1920/30s