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To: DensaMensa
Again, you persist in ignoring the content of my messages and playing your own silly tune. Better that you stick to bumper stickers where thought is not required. Goodbye.

That's fine; I actually didn't expect you to answer. I'll finish it for you.

Obviously, the Nazis were a much greater threat than the Soviets, as they happened to be occupying their country. Yet, instead of fighting the occupying Nazi forces, 10,000 Danes chose to fight for the Nazis, not against them. That, IMO, makes them traitors. If you disagree, fine, but you are clearly wrong.

37 posted on 01/23/2003 3:49:11 PM PST by RoughDobermann
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To: RoughDobermann
Obviously, the Nazis were a much greater threat than the Soviets, as they happened to be occupying their country.

Nah, the Soviets in 1943 were still the MUCH larger threat to the Danes for the very reason they were already occupied by the Nazis and had been for years. There was no more downside at that point, and within the broader scope of the war aside from the inconvience of short food supplies and wartime conditions the Danes didn't have it relatively all that bad. The Nazis wanted them as friends, but it was also clear the Nazis were in big trouble and would probably not win the war.

However the Russian bear was proving to be powerful and unbelieveably cruel. Many of it's Generals and other leaders were right out of the Jewish Bolshevik movement. To switch from Nazis to Russian Communists was not appealing.

39 posted on 01/23/2003 5:17:05 PM PST by skraeling
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To: RoughDobermann
Obviously, the Nazis were a much greater threat than the Soviets

That depended on your ethnic backround. If you were of a race the nazis considered untermenschen then the Nazis were a bigger threat. For an "Aryan" Nordic race like the Danes then Bolshevism was a bigger threat. The Danes saved their jewish population before they could be rounded up they were all taken via boat to Sweden( with the accomadation of the Kriegsmarine, German navy was basically entirely staffed by old fashioned royalist officiers with little Nazi sympathies the boat patrols let the jews pass). They however did not want the Russians to overrun Germany before the Americans arrived because it would likely mean Russian occupation and communism for Denmark. Thats why they decided to support Germany in the East. It should be remembered both sides on the Eastern front were evil.

40 posted on 01/23/2003 5:54:58 PM PST by weikel (Screw the dems im tired of the lesser evil Its the greens socialist and hardcore commies from now on)
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