Originally posted by midnight Target
Now why in hell would THAT be of any significance?
Tell me Hortlund......did the Germans commit ANY war crimes?
Look at the wording in your posts......"The DF were going to RELIEVE a garrison in" ......THEY WERE A FREAKING INVASION FORCE! Why would you stoop to apologize for this type of behavior? If someone invades your Country I hope you make sure you kill them in the nicest way possible.
Uh...
I am really sorry if I have offended you with my question about what Shoa meant. Trust me, I did not intend to offend anyone with it, and quite franky, I had no idea that the question could be offensive. He used a word I had never heard before, and I just asked him what it meant.
Why do you come down on me like this? Its like you have a gigantic spike up your gazoo.
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Over to the other part of your post.
Yes, the Germans committed war crimes, lots of them in fact.
Can you please point out a quote of mine where I have "apologized" for any such crime?
And you are wrong. In 1944 DF was not an invasion force, that would have been correct in 1940. In 1944 it was an occupying force. And to sit and nit-pick at the phrasing in my posts is really rediculous. I have tried to describe what happened in the area between June 8-12 1944. To do this I have quoted parts of the war diary of div Das Reich. If that division was ordered to relieve a garrison, I fail to see why this should strike you as odd in any way.
Are you perhaps of the opinion that I should have added some PC flavour to the quotes? Ok, let me try it..
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Scene at the command post of regiment Der Fuhrer on June 8th 1944. CO enters from left -"Heil my vile comrades in horrible crimes"
Group of men -"Heil our most outrageously evil leader and truppenfuhrer"
CO points to map -"We are out of luck, my evil brethren. The brave french freedom fighters...curses to their names.."
Group of men -"Curses to their names"
CO -"they have liberated most of the beautiful mideval town of Tulle, and surrounded most of our nazi occupying murderous Gertapo force there."
Group of men -"Oh..woe is us. WOE IS US. While we know that we are the evil wrongdoers, and while we know that our cause is unjust and black, we still want to keep control over that beautiful mideval town for just a little while longer. This so our horribly evil leather clad Gestapo leaders can spread their foul stench over the countryside"
Man nr 1 starts to cry -"What are we to do, what are we TO DO...woe is US".
all of the men starts to cryCO -"Now now men. Calm down. We still might have a bratwurst or two up our sleeve"
Group of men looks up on CO -"How, when, why..is it possible? We cannot possibly fight agains the superheroic french brave ultra handsome freedom fighters who never does anything wrong"
CO scupcake -"yes, we still have our horribly evil panzers, that we use to enforce our incredibly evil ways upon the brave french peasants."
Group of men -"OUR PANZERS--they will save the day"
CO -"Yes, donner und blitzen, lets get our panzers rolling, and head to Tulle"
Group of men -"Yeayyy horayy for our panzers"
CO -"Lets get down to business men...and since we are all incredibly evil and horrible..lets make sure that we run over as many flowers as poissible on the way to Tulle"
Man nr 3 picks up a drum and starts to playMan nr 1 starts to sing -"We are the evil wrongdoers, and we are black as coal"
Group of men {s we are black as coal"
Man nr 2 singing -"we hate everything that is good and just, because we are black as coal"
Group of men -"yes we are black as coal"
Man nr 1 singing -"Lets go to our dirty business, and let us destroy everything in our path, because we are black as coal"
Group of men -"yes we are black as coal"
CO clibs into his tank, singing as they pull away and head for Tulle. Suddenly he spots a flower on the side of the road. He quickly turns his little tank to run it over