Posted on 11/13/2011 10:51:23 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
These photographs are part of a chilling collection of WWII photographs taken by a German soldier in the aftermath of Dunkirk. Today on Remembrance Day, they are a fitting reminder of the fields which played host to some of the bloodiest battles of World War One in which 10 million soldiers died. The pictures show the lifeless beaches of northern France littered with thousands of allied vehicles left behind following the infamous evacuation.
One disturbing snap shows the rotting corpse of a British soldier lapping at the shore. Others show the devastation inflicted on the town of Dunkirk following days of fighting that saw the Allies pushed back to the beaches. The Battle of Dunkirk raged between May 26 and June 4 1940 but in one of the most bizarre military manoeuvres of the war, the Nazis halted their final advance.
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Somewhat surprisingly, Hitler was a bit of an Anglophile. He admired them and didn’t want the empire destroyed. Of course this was early in the war and he probably later wished he had attacked them more vigorously.
The boatlift would have made Edmund Burke proud. :)
... they are a fitting reminder of the fields which played host to some of the bloodiest battles of World War One in which 10 million soldiers died.
"WWII" is World War One? Good grief!
Max Hastings makes a good argument in his latest book “Inferno.” He theorizes that after Dunkirk, Hitler should have done nothing more and just ignored England. In time, the English may have begun to think that Hitler had no further designs on England and Churchill would have had a hard time keeping their support for the war.
It was Von Ribbentrop who became the chief Anglophobe, because he felt snubbed by the Brits when he was Hitler’s ambassador there.
That didn’t make sense to me either. I am going to be gracious and assume a mistake was made and that the sentence should have read World War Two.
Uh, the author of the article may be in for a bit of a surprise, but the Germans advanced from Belgium into France, not from France into Belgium.
That threw me off at first, too. But I think the author is saying this new collection of photographs from WW II is a fitting reminder on Remembrance Day (”Veterans Day” in the Commonwealth) for the sacrifices made in WW I. Pretty awkward construction and concept, I have to agree. But it works (kinda).
War is hell, the cruelty of it cannot be mitigated or rationalized, it is what it is.
Those nasty kraut nazi’s even stole the water.
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Page 67: "The BEF (British Expeditionary Force) left behind in France 64,000 vehicles, 76,000 tons of ammunition, 2,500 guns and more than 400,000 tons of stores. Britain's land forces were effectively disarmed: many soldiers would wait years before receiving weapons and equipment that rendered them once more fit for a battlefield." (Italics mine)
And this from page 65: "For the first three days, the British were content to take off their own men, while the French held a perimeter southwards and were refused access to shipping. On at least one occasion when poilus attempted to board vessels, they were fired on by disorderly British troops. Only when Churchill intervened personally did ships begin to take off Frenchmen, 5300 of them after the last British personnel had been embarked. Most subsequently insisted upon repatriation - and therefore found themselves forced labourers in Germany - rather than remain as exiles in Britain."
War is hell, the cruelty of it cannot be mitigated or rationalized, it is what it is.
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I have original photos from the Pacific War , my FIL gave them to me to care for . They are in a fire proof lock box . Many photos from USS Missouri , but there are many pix of up close dead Japanese soldiers and allies , liberated POW camp , half naked sex slaves ( rescued ). Much more .
I have never seen these photos in any publication . I would like a pro to look at them , but am unwilling to mail them to anyone . They are not for sale , but maybe the public could handle them now . These photos are much more shocking than the ones on this thread .
bump for later , I’m watching football .
Sorry , I have always been known as a “ thread killer “ .
Can you scan them?
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