WWII Badasses

[Bombardier101]

That's OK Andrew, I said that because I saw most of the votes said that Germany was the biggest badass.

I would have said the biggest threat was Switzerland, afterall they've got everyones money

Eh? I saw an atlas recently, and strangly, it said that the richest country was Luxembourg! That atlas was from the 80s though, I think. How could that small country be very rich?

I've been reading a book on Poland's fighter pilots in Britain during WWII and it has quite a bit of information on how Poland was betrayed

Those wierd Poles. Poland wasn't betrayed, and even though it wasn't the German fighter pilots fault that Poland was invaded (it was Hitler's, that a$$**le!) the Poles serving in the RAF shot up those [i]Deutsche J

[Flt.Lt.Andrew]

What you say about the parachutes is only one side. Originally it was the Germans who shot parachutes and the Poles returned the favour in the battle of Britain! I'm not saying it was right, just how it is. Often, in the Battle of Poland, Polish fighter pilots helped downed Germans out of aircraft and even bandaged them up. The Poles had (in their opinion) every reason to hate the Germans for invading their country and doing terrible things to their people- deportation of Jews, the Katyn Massacre. While it's fair to say that the German people didnt do these things, it is fair to say that a portion of the blame must lie with them for not doing anything to stop it. Also, Hitler sincerley believed Poland had no right to exist- he beleived it to be Prussia- and therefore living space, taken away from Germany after Versailles.


Second of all, you say they weren't

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Looks like WW2 has been extended. With all else in the world, is this little Australian Civil War going to get explosive?

[ATI_7500]

With all else in the world, is this little Australian Civil War going to get explosive?

Fighting with sticks in the outback while riding on kangaroos and throwing all kins of creepy and toxic reptiles at themselves, I doubt that we'll hear even a single "ka-boom" from down under.
Methinks we wouldn't give a crap anyways.

[Flt.Lt.Andrew]

There's so much outback we could be fighting for years and you'd never hear of us!  ;D


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Which reminds me that I have a lot stuff to work on and clean up out back.

[Flt.Lt.Andrew]

lol!


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[Bombardier101]

[quote]What you say about the parachutes is only one side. Originally it was the Germans who shot parachutes and the Poles returned the favour in the battle of Britain! I'm not saying it was right, just how it is. Often, in the Battle of Poland, Polish fighter pilots helped downed Germans out of aircraft and even bandaged them up. The Poles had (in their opinion) every reason to hate the Germans for invading their country and doing terrible things to their people- deportation of Jews, the Katyn Massacre. While it's fair to say that the German people didnt do these things, it is fair to say that a portion of the blame must lie with them for not doing anything to stop it. Also, Hitler sincerley believed Poland had no right to exist- he beleived it to be Prussia- and therefore living space, taken away from Germany after Versailles.


Second of all, you say they weren't

[C]

Britain:

Arthur Harris, for flattening cities horribly, destroying the hospital city Wuerzburg that had no arms factories, destroying Dresden, nearly obliterating Hamburg in Operation Gommorah, shameless bombing of any other civilian targets. I hate him >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( :-/

I'm afraid that a typical over simplification of what happened. Harris was acting on the directive of Churchill, the war cabinet and the Air Force Board. He had little personal control over the nature of the targets to be attacked, and the fact that the RAF had to bomb at night in days when precision bombing was in its infancy. Harris is an unfairly maligned man who happens to be a convenient scapegoat for those looking for someone to blame...

I seem to remember the Germans also tried to obliterate several British cities (Coventry, Liverpool, Plymouth, London) in 1940 and 1941, so to be fair, they had it coming...

[myshelf]

bombings of the cities was mainly done "to break the spirit od the civilian population", on both sides.
it might look barbaric from today's point of view, back then it was considered legitimate, and essentiell for fast conclusion of the war.

the real war crimes in WW II were done on the ground, and not so much at the frontline, but mostly in the occupied territories.

war crimes WERE commited in all wars. i guess some people just loose it.

[Craig.]

seem to remember the Germans also tried to obliterate several British cities (Coventry, Liverpool, Plymouth, London) in 1940 and 1941, so to be fair, they had it coming...  

And yet they still couldn't finish off Birmingham. Bloody useless