Adolph Gallands Last Interview

[Angus]

Oh dear, Bruno:
"Was Galland a 'Nazi'..? Who cares... I don't find him all that interesting anyway"

You must be quite a great person yourself then, for most of the greatest rather have the opinion that he was very interesting. Be it Allies or Germans....

[Vudak]

Originally posted by Jackal1
I`ll have to be excused if I don`t break out the "respect" candles and hold a ceremony for the damn Nazis.

I'm suprised at that.  I thought you'd be all for it, given your view towards "subhumans" in other threads?

[mora]

Ack-Ack et al, how do you feel about rev. Fred Phelps? Your way of thinking is awfully similar.

[john9001]

Originally posted by B@tfinkV


our own armies are right now commiting war crimes as we speak, just because we beat the nazis does this mean we can now emulate them in minor ways?


The lasrgest war crime of the 2nd world war on an equal level to the jewish excecutions was the 2 big bombs we dropped to wipe out an entire nation of civillians in two bombing raids.
 

my god boy, your brain is so messed up , what have your liberial teachers been telling you?

[mora]

Originally posted by john9001
my god boy, your brain is so messed up , what have your liberial teachers been telling you?

If you feel the need to argue with this guy, why don't you try proving him wrong instead of resorting to a personal attack straight away?

Note: I don't agree with him, because IMO the whole concept of "war crime" is subjective.

[john9001]

you finlanders really love the germans don't you? After all , you were allies in WW2.

prove him wrong? ok , the USA did not "wipe out an entire nation of civillians", Japan is still there and doing good.

[mora]

You did it again. Where did I mention Germans BTW?

Personally I don't love Germans any more or less than . I wouldn't say that we were allies in WW2 though. They gave us considerable support in the very justified Continuation War, but our goals were not the same. Would you elaborate on your differing view?

[J_A_B]

Originally posted by B@tfinkV
What would you have done if your country went to war?

 i think the vast majority of people dont have a realistic enough imagination of the individual's mind and how life is percieved by another life form to yourself.
 while i would say now i would revolt against the nazi rule if i were in his shoes, how do i know what his shoes felt like?

our own armies are right now commiting war crimes as we speak, just because we beat the nazis does this mean we can now emulate them in minor ways?

The lasrgest war crime of the 2nd world war on an equal level to the jewish excecutions was the 2 big bombs we dropped to wipe out an entire nation of civillians in two bombing raids.

and now the world is a mess because we all know that Abombs are going to be the next war without a doubt. so the guilty parties of the only large scale use of nuclear weapons thus far in mans history are running about the globe frantically trying not to let anyone more people have the potential to return the favour.


WW2 was the war of all wars, and it was ended with many grudges that will last hundreds of years, as we can see by the strong opinions of everyone here.

If a lasting world peace and no more use of nuclear weapons is the future of mankind, it would be more of a shock thean curing AIDs with a bowl of soup and some rice.

I quoted this post so he can't chicken out (or come to his senses) and edit it.


J_A_B

[J_A_B]

"If you feel the need to argue with this guy, why don't you try proving him wrong instead of resorting to a personal attack straight away?"



I think Finland helped the Nazis kill about three million civilians, then they killed a few million more Russians and raped their women and pillaged their towns.  We don't hear of this today because the Finnish government successfully covered it all up.  Prove me wrong!  Neener neener, you can't because I'll just say it's all part of the conspiracy!



See, you don't *need* to "disprove" an obviously stupid and false statement.  Sometimes, it's better to point and laugh at the village idiot.  Obviously, I don't really feel that way about Finland.

Finland was caught between a rock and a hard place during the second world war, and they managed to come out of it with their independence mostly intact.  That's better than the rest of Eastern Europe managed.

The irrational America-hater above deserves comments I cannot post on this BBS.


J_A_B

[B@tfinkV]

Originally posted by J_A_B
I quoted this post so he can't chicken out (or come to his senses) and edit it.


J_A_B

congratulations, would you like me to type it up again, put it in bold six inch letters and pin it on your forehead?

[Vudak]

Originally posted by J_A_B
I quoted this post so he can't chicken out (or come to his senses) and edit it.


J_A_B

So, aside from some insignificant irregularites, which part of his post do you think he should edit?

[B@tfinkV]

the biggest notion i have to edit it is the 3 or 4 typos.

[LEDPIG]

On the subject of Oskar Shcindler you all act as if it was an easy decision to save all those Jewish people. He receieved pressure from the nazi's on all sides when he eas doing this and risked his own life time and time again to save these people no one cared about. If he was such a business man he could have easily made a killing (literally and financialy) instead of risking his own life and spending his own money to save people. It is commonly known that Oskar Shcindler spent so much of his personal fortune on this that he was bankrupt and was living in a small apartment after the war was over, compared to what he had before, he had nothing. He also was doing this right under the Germans noses and none of those nazi idiots figured it out. If he only cared about money he certainly never would have done this, not to mention the actual jewish people who vouch for him that were in the camp. He would have surely been imprisoned maybe killed, a selfish money hungry nazi business man would not have done this. As far as i am concerned it is the hardest thing to go against the flow in your own country when you have a group as terrible as the nazi's who might find out what your really up to any minute:D

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Oldman731
That scenario isn't Galland.  He was bombing and strafing Spaniards long before WWII started.  

As Charon pointed out several years ago, there's an inherent irony in saying that the German flyers were just defending their country.  Right:  defending it over Madrid, Warsaw, Holland, Norway, Belgium, France, England, Yugoslavia, Greece, Africa....

- oldman

Actually I with that point I was more responding to the post Westy made.

As for Galland and the other fliers.
They were professional soldiers and they were doing what they were told to do.
Just as right or wrong our soldiers are doing now.

Thing too is a countries leader. Doesn't matter who it is can do almost anything and retain the support of the people so long as that country remains  prosperous and highly successful at whatever it is they are doing.

Had we stormed through Iraq, Had there been no insurgence and all was peaceful there now Bush would have far more support then he does now.
In fact he could have gone into Syria, Iran and on and on and on and so long as the overwhelming success held up So would the support.

Look at Clinton. Certainly no gem of a president either. But he happened to be there during highly prosperous times and thus he maintained a fairly high level of support no matter what he did

So long as Germany was prosperous and remained highly successful he maintained a high popularity.

Once the successes became fewer and they started having setback after setback the popularity begins to wane.

People like to be associated with the winning team. Doesn't matter what the team is doing to win so long as its winning people will support it.

Once the team is loosing people abandon and will turn on it and even switch sides just to be associated with the winning side.

You can see this very effect in action almost nightly in the MA

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by Vudak
I'm suprised at that.  I thought you'd be all for it, given your view towards "subhumans" in other threads?

Great reasoning there........................ .............for someone with a severe  mental incapacity maybe.
Let me splain sumin to you Luuucy. I watched my Dad hobble around on two feet that most wouldn`t have even tryed to walk on after fighting the Nazis until the day he died in `97. Respect for Nazis? No sir, I have none.