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I noticed that no one answered Marco's question regarding the Polish invasion of Germany. Operation Himmler, a series of 21 incidents that occurred on August 31, 1939, was used as the reason for Germany invading Poland on September 1. The most famous of...

I noticed that no one answered Marco's question regarding the Polish invasion of Germany. Operation Himmler, a series of 21 incidents that occurred on August 31, 1939, was used as the reason for Germany invading Poland on September 1. The most famous of these was the Gleiwitz incident, ostensibly an attack on a German radio station. Poland invading Germany was a German propoganda device documented at the Nuremberg Trials.

gotta remember, this isthe 40's and probably the first japanese a lot of these swabbies ever seen, maybe they wanted to get a look at what these lunatics that attacked us looked like

or call it humanity

wouldn't call it "bathing", when "humiliation" describes it better.... who can blame the US-boys...-was in the rough 40's

some of our guys executed prisoners in revenge for malmedy, that was wrong but emotions get out of hand and thats what happens when men are asked to become killers,thank god they didnt have any john kerrys trying to have them arrested for it 30 years...

some of our guys executed prisoners in revenge for malmedy, that was wrong but emotions get out of hand and thats what happens when men are asked to become killers,thank god they didnt have any john kerrys trying to have them arrested for it 30 years later, what a ass(kerry)

my uncle lawrence talked to a german prisoner once, and the guy told him he was going to college in england, came home , and got drafted. lawrence said the guy spoke english better than he did, he was very friendly, and was releived that the war was...

my uncle lawrence talked to a german prisoner once, and the guy told him he was going to college in england, came home , and got drafted. lawrence said the guy spoke english better than he did, he was very friendly, and was releived that the war was over for him. thats the thing, we have common roots, and its hard for good people to just hate, we all just do our job and fight for the guy next to you

I know what you mean, boxerrick41. It's true, on the ETO enemies treated each other much more decently than on the german eastern front or in the Pacific. War crimes happened of course but these were exceptions more or less...

thanks for the correction, flamethrowerguy,i was just reminding a few that in regards to americans,the germans seemed to treat us better than most other of their enemies,as to peiper, maybe he was scared and mad,as i would be too,war brings out the best...

thanks for the correction, flamethrowerguy,i was just reminding a few that in regards to americans,the germans seemed to treat us better than most other of their enemies,as to peiper, maybe he was scared and mad,as i would be too,war brings out the best in some, the worst in others.

yo, boxerrick41, you placed some interesting and appropriate comments here. but joachim peiper never ordered the murder of about 70 (not 100) US-POW's near malmedy. when the incident happened he already had moved further with his tank-column. following ...

yo, boxerrick41, you placed some interesting and appropriate comments here. but joachim peiper never ordered the murder of about 70 (not 100) US-POW's near malmedy. when the incident happened he already had moved further with his tank-column. following units did the shooting yet they belonged to peiper's outfit. what exactly happened will unfortunately never be clarified. you know differnet versions are existing.

hey derrick, they should have took you to battan too, the japs were inhuman in the way they conducted themselves.over 50% of american prisoners they captured died in captivity as compared to 2% of americans that perished in german pow camps,there were...

hey derrick, they should have took you to battan too, the japs were inhuman in the way they conducted themselves.over 50% of american prisoners they captured died in captivity as compared to 2% of americans that perished in german pow camps,there were exceptions as when german tanker joichim piper ordered 100 us pows killed,he was a sob.they probably were watching that japanese to keep him from killing himself, they were fanatical, and told we would torture them unmercifully if captured, id say he was shocked to even get to bathe