Conquer Club

A thread to discus World War II

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Jesse, Bad Boy's picture has just fueled my dislike for kittens.
Thank you.

Napoleonb

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Some body conragulate him he isn't typeing like an idiot

Like how the U.S. was attacking German U-boats months before a formal declaration of war?

I loves my Freedom of Information Act.

Too bad the Bush administration is sewing that up that little loose end. I hear India has a pretty good system.

What do you want to talk about, dealing with WW2?
[url]Europe Front, quick notes[/url]
-Germans attack Poland
-Germans attack Norway
-Germans attack France via Belgium and Netherlands in order to bypass the Maginot Line.
-Germany makes an air attack on Britain (they fail).
-Italy and Germany join to attack Yugoslavia on there way to Greece.
-Italy and Germany attack Greece.
-Germany attackes Russia and pushes all the way to Moscow.
-Rommel pushes across Africa.
-Rommel is stoped at a place called, El Alamein.
-Gen. Montgomery (leader of the British Forces) pushes Rommel back to Tunisia.
-Rommel kicked out of Africa.
-Russia attacks Finland who has joined with Germany (early in the war).
-Russia pushes from, Stalingrad across to Poland.
-U.S. and British forces attack Sicliy.
-U.S. and British forces attack Italy.
-The landings at Normandy takes place (D-Day).
-Patton and the whole other forces of French, British, and American roll across France.
-Allied forces take over Belgium and Netherlands.
-Allied forces storm the Siegfried Line.
-Russia takes Berlin as U.S and British forces take Nuremberg and Munich.
-Hitler kills himself.
-Germany surrenders,[url]war in Europe is over![/url]

lord twiggy1 wrote:A thread to discus World War II

grow a pair

Very significant time in history...

First use of atomic weaponry in combat,

First time America had been attacked by a foriegn nation in since the War of 1812, but at the same time the war brought our economy out of the Great Depression.

The world was introduced to facism, put simply, a dictatorship with a racist agenda. Was allowed to gain influence thanks to democratic European policy of appeasing Hitler, turning a blind eye as he took over Switzerland, Poland, and Norway.

Lord Canti wrote: European policy of appeasing Hitler, turning a blind eye as he took over Switzerland, Poland, and Norway.

Just to clear up a few things here, Hitler never took over Switzerland. Also, he didn't take Norway until after the War started, and his invasion of Poland was what finally got the Europeans to fight him. European appeasement allowed Hitler to take Austria and Czechslovaki(not sure about that spelling), and build up his millitary

millej11 wrote:

lord twiggy1 wrote:A thread to discus World War II

grow a pair

that's not nice.

DIRESTRAITS wrote:

Lord Canti wrote: European policy of appeasing Hitler, turning a blind eye as he took over Switzerland, Poland, and Norway.

Just to clear up a few things here, Hitler never took over Switzerland. Also, he didn't take Norway until after the War started, and his invasion of Poland was what finally got the Europeans to fight him. European appeasement allowed Hitler to take Austria and Czechslovaki(not sure about that spelling), and build up his millitary

While Hitler never really invaded and took Switzerland, the Swiss were appeasing him with military supplies and housing Nazi money, so they might as well have been a non-aggressive ally during the war.

Hologram wrote:

DIRESTRAITS wrote:

Lord Canti wrote: European policy of appeasing Hitler, turning a blind eye as he took over Switzerland, Poland, and Norway.

Just to clear up a few things here, Hitler never took over Switzerland. Also, he didn't take Norway until after the War started, and his invasion of Poland was what finally got the Europeans to fight him. European appeasement allowed Hitler to take Austria and Czechslovaki(not sure about that spelling), and build up his millitary

While Hitler never really invaded and took Switzerland, the Swiss were appeasing him with military supplies and housing Nazi money, so they might as well have been a non-aggressive ally during the war.

-He never took Switzerland because it was not going pick sides.
-Hitler took Demark April 9, 1940 and thats the same time they landed in Oslo, Norway, Hitler started both by a paratroop landing both in Oslo and near Stavanger, as well as landings from the sea at Kristiansand, Bergen, Trondhiem, Navik (up north) and also in Oslo. Norway fell a few days later.

-Anyways I think most of the fighting in the north took place at Finland at the start of the war, they were taking on the Russians and the Germans at the same time, and then because they were low one matrials they took sides with Germany.

war_bloodline wrote:What do you want to talk about, dealing with WW2?
[url]Europe Front, quick notes[/url]
-Germans attack Poland
-Germans attack Norway
-Germans attack France via Belgium and Netherlands in order to bypass the Maginot Line.
-Germany makes an air attack on Britain (they fail).
-Italy and Germany join to attack Yugoslavia on there way to Greece.
-Italy and Germany attack Greece.
-Germany attackes Russia and pushes all the way to Moscow.
-Rommel pushes across Africa.
-Rommel is stoped at a place called, El Alamein.
-Gen. Montgomery (leader of the British Forces) pushes Rommel back to Tunisia.
-Rommel kicked out of Africa.
-Russia attacks Finland who has joined with Germany (early in the war).
-Russia pushes from, Stalingrad across to Poland.
-U.S. and British forces attack Sicliy.
-U.S. and British forces attack Italy.
-The landings at Normandy takes place (D-Day).
-Patton and the whole other forces of French, British, and American roll across France.
-Allied forces take over Belgium and Netherlands.
-Allied forces storm the Siegfried Line.
-Russia takes Berlin as U.S and British forces take Nuremberg and Munich.
-Hitler kills himself.
-Germany surrenders,[url]war in Europe is over![/url]

you forgot one right before d-day. Airborne landing at 0100 hours

Lord Canti wrote:Very significant time in history...

First use of atomic weaponry in combat

.

and last

CRAYOLA wrote:

war_bloodline wrote:What do you want to talk about, dealing with WW2?
[url]Europe Front, quick notes[/url]
-Germans attack Poland
-Germans attack Norway
-Germans attack France via Belgium and Netherlands in order to bypass the Maginot Line.
-Germany makes an air attack on Britain (they fail).
-Italy and Germany join to attack Yugoslavia on there way to Greece.
-Italy and Germany attack Greece.
-Germany attackes Russia and pushes all the way to Moscow.
-Rommel pushes across Africa.
-Rommel is stoped at a place called, El Alamein.
-Gen. Montgomery (leader of the British Forces) pushes Rommel back to Tunisia.
-Rommel kicked out of Africa.
-Russia attacks Finland who has joined with Germany (early in the war).
-Russia pushes from, Stalingrad across to Poland.
-U.S. and British forces attack Sicliy.
-U.S. and British forces attack Italy.
-The landings at Normandy takes place (D-Day).
-Patton and the whole other forces of French, British, and American roll across France.
-Allied forces take over Belgium and Netherlands.
-Allied forces storm the Siegfried Line.
-Russia takes Berlin as U.S and British forces take Nuremberg and Munich.
-Hitler kills himself.
-Germany surrenders,[url]war in Europe is over![/url]

you forgot one right before d-day. Airborne landing at 0100 hours

I am not going into full details about WW2 just a brief fly over of it, if I were to tell the whole history of WW2 the page would be a lot longer.
When we start talking about D-day then I will go into the times of that day.

on a side note, I just saw a very interesting movie about Hitler. It's not a documentary, its kind of surreal. The main character is Hitler(an actor, not the real deal) and hes watching real filmstrips/movie reels of footage from WWII in some bunker(i personally think it's hell, or his mind, random characters come in and out when no exit is shown and one of them is Sigmund Freud who died in 39 but appears to be about 55-60 years old in the film so it can't be a real place and time on earth) and hes commenting, kind of thinking out loud, his beliefs, what he was doing, his strategies, anything that comes to his mind. It is sort of a cross-section of Hitlers mind, how the director thinks it to be at least. It makes you look at Hitler as a human, his insecurites, his strengths, his weaknesses, and its totally open so it lets you come to conclusions about why he did the things he did. There is no action whatsoever in the movie and its almost completely dialogue, but the actor plays a great Hitler and if you are fascinated with Hitler as I am (fascinated doesn't mean I like or support him and his beliefs btw, I am just amazed at how one man can change the world and I like WWII stuff) then you will probably like the movie as did I. I'm going to watch it a couple more times though because there are so many great quotes and scenes I want to see if I missed anything. The name of the movie is The Empty Mirror and I recommend it to those who appreciate good dialogue, can sit through a movie with no action, and who like Hitler/WWII topics.

Here is the IMDB page for the movie, there are some good reviews on there too. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116192/

Thats odd.
Anyways about Hitler he was a very strong nationalist when he was in control of the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi's) in about 1921 I want to say he was a big sign of "good things" to come for Germany. With in the first 2 years from the start of the Nazi party they had some 55,000 members, in the next few more years the munbers jumped from that to 800,000 and they still grew on.

By the way have any of you here read Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler, that is a window into the mind of a mad man.

The good things that he wanted for Germany were really just a full load of bull, right after the Nazi party took over Germany the price of bread jumped to what it would be for you to buy a very high class car.

Oh, and he lost a contury that is the other thing he did that did not help Germany, or killing the Jews, or Homesexuals, or anyone.

war_bloodline wrote:

Germany attackes Russia and pushes all the way to Moscow.

The fatal mistake Hitler commited...

America 1945 and America 2005 are so different it scares me. America 2005 is sort of molding into Nazi Germany (without the genocide part).[/list]

war_bloodline wrote:By the way have any of you here read Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolf Hitler, that is a window into the mind of a mad man.

The good things that he wanted for Germany were really just a full load of bull, right after the Nazi party took over Germany the price of bread jumped to what it would be for you to buy a very high class car.

i havent read it but ive heard of it

war_bloodline wrote:

Hologram wrote:

DIRESTRAITS wrote:

Lord Canti wrote: European policy of appeasing Hitler, turning a blind eye as he took over Switzerland, Poland, and Norway.

Just to clear up a few things here, Hitler never took over Switzerland. Also, he didn't take Norway until after the War started, and his invasion of Poland was what finally got the Europeans to fight him. European appeasement allowed Hitler to take Austria and Czechslovaki(not sure about that spelling), and build up his millitary

While Hitler never really invaded and took Switzerland, the Swiss were appeasing him with military supplies and housing Nazi money, so they might as well have been a non-aggressive ally during the war.

-He never took Switzerland because it was not going pick sides.
-Hitler took Demark April 9, 1940 and thats the same time they landed in Oslo, Norway, Hitler started both by a paratroop landing both in Oslo and near Stavanger, as well as landings from the sea at Kristiansand, Bergen, Trondhiem, Navik (up north) and also in Oslo. Norway fell a few days later.

-Anyways I think most of the fighting in the north took place at Finland at the start of the war, they were taking on the Russians and the Germans at the same time, and then because they were low one matrials they took sides with Germany.

the germans didnt fight the finns. the soviets did in the winter war and then the finns attacked them after germany invaded

unriggable wrote:America 1945 and America 2005 are so different it scares me. America 2005 is sort of molding into Nazi Germany (without the genocide part).[/list]

oh you mean we silence free speech and dissolved our congress? oh and i forgot about the armed gestapo roaming the streets and our love of brautwurst