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You mean the Kings German Legion?
As for SS made up from local miscreants, erm, I'd have to see some evidence of that. From my interview with a Mayor of a Bastide at the time of occupation, the "SS batallions" were definitely not made up from locals.
There are very full records of SS activity, recruitment; Germans you know, with their records. Things are very much not forgotten, best to check our sources. -
It's like 100 Years of Solitude, but it's real, from source material, with pirates and warring Popes!
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Ben, it is all that, and more, trust me.
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I have and will again, lived and worked for extended periods in France, and speak French, as do I have family there as I do in Germany, phew. I have read reasonably well I think, studied at University, and discussed politics with so called terrorists, real US Senators, us folk, dissidents, exiles and the insane. All of them had an opinion on Napoleon and subsequently, 1815. I think it's still too close to tell the affects.
As for Muslim persecution today, it's a sticky one because it calls into question America's motives in Iraq, i.e. is this a religiously motivated war?
I have heard WW2 described by Jung as a Christian war, this is seen as very controversal, though all soldiers who fought for Britain were asked for their denomination, and if none were proferred, automatically imposed with C of E, because they fought for the King as Head of the Church of England, they died for same.
God and My Right, no war has been fought successfully without it, now a revolution is an entirely different matter...cue the French Revolution. -
Phew, I should have read the thread more carefully, it's a hot one and I really havn't got a handle on the issue, sorry. I broke a personal rule here and should have thought before a wasted some kb's.
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Yes you can. The book, A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman I cannot plug enough, everything echoes through time. I am part German, so I have had to do alot of reading and soul searching, more than perhaps those of the usual English, Scots, Irish.
It ain't easy to be drawn to dark forests and Wotan, black, red and white, but it has given me a different perspective than some. We don't really get Europe here, we are Brit-centric.
Having a bit of French as well (I'm 5 times a mongrel), I notice that we take the Brit line on the French Revolution and Napoleon, for me 1815 was the pivotal year.
All this to say, 1930's Europe is not too great a stretch for what we have now. -
Mayor Quimby would know what to do.
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I wonder who NX really is?
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Billy C: Retaining water?
Billy C: Retaining chips more likely. -
Fart-in-bed-dude's stats have been way fisked as well, often and clearly. And I'm too lazy to look them up, my bad.