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3/504th-Cpt.Knight · 01-04-2002, 05:19 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Wolfshook:

It is not really as simple as saying they were brainwashed, or warmongers, or that they loved Hitler. It was a lot more complicated than that.
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I'm sorry to make you post such a long post Wolf. I do understand and agree with what you are saying, maybe I just didn't get it across in my short posts.

I believe that most people are like sheep in the respect that we all need a shepard to follow. I'm sure that if I was living in Germany before WWII, in the horrible living conditions, starving and cold because of the shakles put upon my country by the rest of the world, I would listen to and follow a man who told me what I wanted to hear and made promises that he delivered. And I would join the WaffenSS, Kriegsmarine or other German miltary unit to fight for him. Who knows, I might have been one of the bastards turning the valve on for the gas chambers. But I wasn't and my family history makes me a little angry at the Nazis.

My family is from Poland. Yes, we were the retards that charged the Blitzkreg tanks on horseback. (But you have to admit, that took some balls!) My father was born in 1940 and lived in Warsaw. Now there are two things that make me snap sometimes at people who seem to exhalt what the Nazis did.

The first is the fact that 6 million Poles were killed by the Nazis. Yes, 6 million and the reason people don't hear about that is because they were killed by firing squad and not in gas chambers. They were not taken to concentration camps. They were forced out of thier villages and lined up in front of pits, which they dug, and then they were shot and buried. The next day, German families would be trucked in to live in the newly unoccupied homes.

The second is that my father's oldest memory is of when he was three years old. He remembers himself screaming out of a second story window at his father, my grandfather, as the Nazis shoved him into a truck. He was being taken to Germany to work in a labor camp. My grandfather built bridges and buildings for the Germans and when the war was over, he when to the US. I can't even begin to understand the how traumatizing that event was for my father.

Please dont get me wrong Wolf, I know you are not holding high the atrocites that the Nazis did and I in no way am exhalting the atrocites done against the Germans by Allied forces. I just want you to understand where I come from.

I understand, respect and agree with your point of view and I hope that we are friends.

Sorry about this moderators. I think this thread got a little off topic.

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3rd Battalion
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment
82nd Airborne Division
"The Blue Devils"

[This message has been edited by 3/504th-Cpt.Knight (edited January 04, 2002).]

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3/504th-Cpt.Knight is Offline Senior Member Posts: 171 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Rhode Island,USA	01-04-2002, 05:19 AM <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Wolfshook: It is not really as simple as saying they were brainwashed, or warmongers, or that they loved Hitler. It was a lot more complicated than that. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I'm sorry to make you post such a long post Wolf. I do understand and agree with what you are saying, maybe I just didn't get it across in my short posts. I believe that most people are like sheep in the respect that we all need a shepard to follow. I'm sure that if I was living in Germany before WWII, in the horrible living conditions, starving and cold because of the shakles put upon my country by the rest of the world, I would listen to and follow a man who told me what I wanted to hear and made promises that he delivered. And I would join the WaffenSS, Kriegsmarine or other German miltary unit to fight for him. Who knows, I might have been one of the bastards turning the valve on for the gas chambers. But I wasn't and my family history makes me a little angry at the Nazis. My family is from Poland. Yes, we were the retards that charged the Blitzkreg tanks on horseback. (But you have to admit, that took some balls!) My father was born in 1940 and lived in Warsaw. Now there are two things that make me snap sometimes at people who seem to exhalt what the Nazis did. The first is the fact that 6 million Poles were killed by the Nazis. Yes, 6 million and the reason people don't hear about that is because they were killed by firing squad and not in gas chambers. They were not taken to concentration camps. They were forced out of thier villages and lined up in front of pits, which they dug, and then they were shot and buried. The next day, German families would be trucked in to live in the newly unoccupied homes. The second is that my father's oldest memory is of when he was three years old. He remembers himself screaming out of a second story window at his father, my grandfather, as the Nazis shoved him into a truck. He was being taken to Germany to work in a labor camp. My grandfather built bridges and buildings for the Germans and when the war was over, he when to the US. I can't even begin to understand the how traumatizing that event was for my father. Please dont get me wrong Wolf, I know you are not holding high the atrocites that the Nazis did and I in no way am exhalting the atrocites done against the Germans by Allied forces. I just want you to understand where I come from. I understand, respect and agree with your point of view and I hope that we are friends. Sorry about this moderators. I think this thread got a little off topic. ------------------ 3rd Battalion 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment 82nd Airborne Division "The Blue Devils" [This message has been edited by 3/504th-Cpt.Knight (edited January 04, 2002).]