Posted on 11/13/2017 4:03:09 AM PST by servo1969
I grew up in the shadow of the Second World War. Many of my teachers had fought in it. As a child, I played with toy Eighth Army and Afrika Korps soldiers. I read the collected works of Sven Hassel. I watched every classic WWII movie there is to see from The Longest Day and Patton: Lust for Glory to The Great Escape and Cross of Iron.
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But now some silly girl from Cambridge University thinks this interest is dangerously offensive — and actually tried to get me fired for it.
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Historian Roger Moorhouse has written a book called The Third Reich in 100 Objects.
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My tweet took the form of a photo of the cover with some comment like “fun bedtime reading.”
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At this point, Young Missy intervened. Because she took her tweet down, I can only show you the screenshot.
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I mention this because I requested that she apologize for her stupid, irresponsible ugly tweet.
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In any case, whether she did or didn’t get the message, is immaterial. She clearly knew she was in trouble because she took down the tweet.
So why am I harrying her now?
Well, it’s like this.
I really don’t like it when people try to get me sacked for the crime of reading a history book. Not even when that history book is about Nazi Germany. Especially when that book is about Nazi Germany.
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...let me tell you, all you Ellen Robertsons out there, those of us of the older, wiser, more culturally broadminded, informed and enlightened generations that preceded you are not going to take your stupid, tedious, pettifogging SJW sh-t lying down.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
One of my favorite WWII books is the war as seen through the eyes of German soldiers.
What I remember especially is the German officer who was captured at Normandy and was allowed to witness part of the invasion landing. He asked, “Where are all the horses?”
The Germans were about to experience American industrial power.
What is really disturbing is that the oldest American SJW millennials will be old enough to run for the Presidency in 2020.
I wish I could be alive to see how generations of snowflakes will fashion the US. Something that can’t go on forever, won’t. Then the house of cards falls down.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”
George Santayana
Poor professor. Frankenstein’s monster killed him too.
That’s a great point many don’t understand. German logistics were largely trains and horse drawn wagons, with the relatively few trucks mostly dedicated to support for armor, artillery and mechanized infantry units.
German infantry divisions walked to get from point A to point B in a road march. While U.S. infantry divisions nominally walked, in reality there were enough vehicles in attached units that had vehicles that pretty much everybody could get a ride. Sure, riding on the back deck of a tank, or jammed in the back of a truck mostly carrying artillery ammunition wasn’t comfortable, but it beat the heck out of walking.
“Then the house of cards falls down.”
That ship has sailed. Maybe PDJT can turn it around, but it may be too far gone.
President Trump is, I fear, a brief harbor in an ongoing storm. Millennials and later generations can’t help but be screwed up the way we educate them now.
Read the excerpt, then read the article. Gosh, that was a good job on excerpting. Thanks.
Would that be Holger Eckhertz's book? Some grim stuff in there. My uncles never said a word about the use of white phosphorus in the ETO, but the Germans weren't so reticent. Uncle C was often asked by German POW's - he used to move them around and also had a few that did maintenance jobs - about "American semiautomatic artillery." Some of them were convinced that the volume of fire/ accuracy were due to some sort of "repeating" heavy artillery.
Mr. niteowl77
1) The most serious threat to our nation's continuing freedom is government K-12 schooling and our colleges and universities.
2) Nearly every teacher in this nation from pre-K through to university graduate school was trained by godless Marxists in Marxist-run colleges and universities. This is true for both private and government schools.
Yet....I see little concern or evidence of urgency.
Thanks.
spot on
Agree completely. This battleship takes so long to turn around, the war will have been long lost by then.
You might want to check out ‘Die Deutsche Wochenschau’-Nazi newsreels on YouTube. Many of them have English subtitles. Not only do you see the war from their point of view, but you can see them ‘putting lipstick on a pig’ when things start going badly. “The enemy says they have never fought against tougher troops” as the Normandy invasion pushes them back. “Our brave troops are taking more defensible positions...” Last one is about a month before the end showing “determined citizens” clearing the rubble from what used to be their cities.
As an aside, here’s an aggravating fact.
B-17 bombers were deployed against the Japanese task force at the Battle of Midway. Out of 322 bombs dropped, not one hit anything.
“The Forgotten Soldier” by Guy Sajer
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