Just wonder why frags suddenly post Soviet's atrocities just after I said people should also remember the role of the Soviet Union in WWII instead of remembering only the role of American in WWII. Maybe I've seen and met far too many people that blindly reject the important role of the Soviets and championing how "important and decisive" the American in WWII. So yeah, maybe a hasty and rash respond from me

Hope in this thread, we can get to share the bad and good side of all the nation that struggle in WWII

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Operation Market Garden another parallel failure of German's airborne invasion of Crete.

I think that was what frags did, perhaps it just the timing. I did mention that Stalin and Hitler made alot of mistakes in Eastern Front. As in Stalin's case, ordering his soldier not to react to German's invasion was just epic face palming. He even couldn't trust his source, moreover that time he just finished The Great Purge. The purge also left alot of inexperience officers confused, that was why the German can reach until Moscow's doorstep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge

A little short history of the Nazi Party:







Src: http://www.johndclare.net/Weimar6.htm


Mein Kampf



Src: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/kampf2.htm




This post has been edited by frags: Mar 27 2010, 04:47 PM

Good video, frags

Remembering Dunkirk

The Battle Of Dunkirk begined on 26th May 1940 marked the beginning of Hitler's dominance of Europe. The British, French and allied forces having failed to defend France against the Nazi invasion, fell back to the beaches of Dunkirk. There they were seiged by Hitler's forces and rescue boats were attacked by the Luftwaffe. A desperate moment in British history, many civilians joined together with the navy to help bring back the boys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation


The evacuation was spun as a major victory and British propaganda labeled it as the Dunkirk Spirit.




Still the best damn WWII documentary:


Of course this was the time also when Churchill delivered his famous speech 'We shall fight on the beaches'.

This post has been edited by frags: May 27 2010, 04:58 PM

imma just put this here:

The 5 Most Widely Believed WWII Facts (That Are Bullshit)

Pretty obvious stuff. I find it hard to imagine anyone would say any one of those is a fact. Maybe people who are ignorant and have no idea about WWII.

interesting thread
liking it

just watch this movie Days of Glory, interesting movie about the often forgotten french north african troop, the troop from these colony go to france to fight for a country they never seen and receive discriminatory treatment by the french commander. even though they make up large part of the free french force that liberated france.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Glory_%282006_film%29

Haha, my favorite site too. That is of course, until people accuse us of falling into the conspiracy trap by the Americans in a form of a comedy web site! LOL!

Wow, surprisingly there's a history thread here esp WWII hahah



Guys, here's an interesting book to recommend for all the history lover =)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Rawicz

http://www.amazon.com/Long-Walk-True-Story...m/dp/1558216847


Quick Summary

"A story of one man and his seven companions escaping a Russian work prison and walking to freedom. The book covers their trek of over 3000 miles to India. This book is epic in scope even though it's only 240 pages long. "
Anthony Harris, Resident Scholar



"This story was written by one man who with six other prisoners escaped from a Soviet prison camp in Siberia. They walked thousands of miles to escape through harsh wasteland. Half the group perished."
, Resident Scholar



"The trek from Moscow to the upper India border lasted over eighteen months. Slav and his fellow escapees went through torturous degrees of human degradation. Through help and friendship, the men come together and make it out of the Russian prison camp to freedom. Over three thousand miles and harsh conditions made the going very tough.
These men crossed the Gobi dessert and the Himalayan Mountains and survived the frigid temperatures of the Siberian wilderness. Lice were a major problem to the men. Language barriers in Mongolia and Tibet were cumbersome. Slav and his companions had to rely on the kindness of strangers to provide them with a roof and food sometimes.

In the desert land of the Gobi, they went up to twelve days without drinking water, when they finally found liquid to drink, it was muddy and rancid, giving the men diarrhea. The men were toughened by the amount of grief they went through. "




I read through this article at Discovery Channel Magazine back few issues. Found it quite interesting, then I bought it at Borders Time Square for about rm7x. I don't know whether it's expensive or not as for me it is coz i'm not a regular book buyer.

It's D-DAY!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings