tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post4807636705170131455..comments2024-03-28T05:25:40.826-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: To the EastOldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-56641576011881315032022-01-21T16:17:26.714-08:002022-01-21T16:17:26.714-08:00Very true.Very true.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-28533951065242087912022-01-21T16:09:30.472-08:002022-01-21T16:09:30.472-08:00(Don McCollor)..In college, I had a friend with an...(Don McCollor)..In college, I had a friend with an interest in history who had visited Germany. He related how the owner the hotel told him how toward the end of WW2 as a boy, he had delivered a ME-262 engine to an airfield on a wooden sled pulled by oxen. The most advanced jet engine in the world being hauled by oxen - because there was no fuel to move it any other way... Don McCollorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18028324869570493102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-49437276667569522552022-01-21T14:03:53.655-08:002022-01-21T14:03:53.655-08:00👍👍OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-4543010301033679812022-01-21T13:06:28.697-08:002022-01-21T13:06:28.697-08:00Riveting story. Keep it coming.Riveting story. Keep it coming.FeralFerrethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18052035175222525103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-52004013749780192092022-01-21T12:10:11.285-08:002022-01-21T12:10:11.285-08:00Carthago delenda est ...
Didn't say it was un...Carthago delenda est ...<br /><br />Didn't say it was unprecedented.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-40661188765795640412022-01-21T11:54:41.758-08:002022-01-21T11:54:41.758-08:00It was not entirely unprecedented. Ever heard of C...It was not entirely unprecedented. Ever heard of Carthago? That aside, even SS themselves had trouble with mass murder driving their troops into deptression, alciholism and sometines suicide. That's why gas chambers were eventually introduced.Paweł Kasperekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17636249014878876718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-20572276486389109732022-01-21T11:53:56.455-08:002022-01-21T11:53:56.455-08:00Bingo!Bingo!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-74018125584437529352022-01-21T11:51:52.316-08:002022-01-21T11:51:52.316-08:00Which means, survey says, compliance is useless, g...Which means, survey says, compliance is useless, go full resistance.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-14442453649669690462022-01-21T09:56:31.444-08:002022-01-21T09:56:31.444-08:00See my comment above ...
To Hitler the East was a...See my comment above ...<br /><br />To Hitler the East was all about Lebensraum, he didn't want any more Poles or Slavs than were necessary to perform the scut work. Th East would be repopulated with the master race, no one else need apply. Not sure if history had seen anything like that before, well other than in the American West.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-66240090422586770982022-01-21T09:53:57.476-08:002022-01-21T09:53:57.476-08:00I almost posted something else today, then the Mus...I almost posted something else today, then the Muse told me, "Keep writing, we need to see were this goes ..."<br /><br />So I did, I'm enjoying the story and the creating of it.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-31411467418813366632022-01-21T09:53:00.413-08:002022-01-21T09:53:00.413-08:00That became even more of a problem as the war drew...That became even more of a problem as the war drew to a close. Little kids in Hitler Youth uniforms wielding Panzerfausts and going after Soviet tanks. Refusing to surrender because Hitler wasn't just their leader, he was their religion.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-63619752946445399382022-01-21T09:50:29.981-08:002022-01-21T09:50:29.981-08:00Keep in mind that Nazi policy in the East was to r...Keep in mind that Nazi policy in the East was to reduce the Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, etc., to slaves. whose only use was to serve the master race. The intelligentsia were to be killed out of hand, ditto the Jews and the Gypsies. Of course, the Poles didn't know this at first, they learned the hard way. It wasn't really a case of trying to cow the populace into submission, it was planned, government-sanctioned, genocide.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-50143164586765994842022-01-21T09:33:55.551-08:002022-01-21T09:33:55.551-08:00And thus the stupidity is compounded. Used to be,...And thus the stupidity is compounded. Used to be, conquer the land, you get the people. The very reason for the medieval code of warfare, which was "Surrender and no atrocities. Breach your walls and surrender and some atrocities. Don't surrender it's full atrocities." <br /><br />No atrocities is a good thing.<br /><br />But sadly, as we've seen in modern times, one can go too far in the other way and play right into the enemy's hands, especially if they're still playing by atrocity rules<br /><br />(sorry for lack of comms, but I'm now on my third computer in 3 years. Only took two days to shift everything over by physically moving hard drive and such, would have been less 'no computer' time but my new phone wasn't set up to ring incoming calls. Yeesh. So I'll be catching up.) <br /><br />Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-83181848681247107142022-01-21T09:27:44.482-08:002022-01-21T09:27:44.482-08:00Your muse is on a roll. Keep it up, but take a br...Your muse is on a roll. Keep it up, but take a break when necessary. This writing stuff should still be fun, or fulfilling, not drudgery you feel compelled to churn out.<br />John BlackshoeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-78410832960054786832022-01-21T09:27:33.911-08:002022-01-21T09:27:33.911-08:00The only answer is "Damn the casualties, full...The only answer is "Damn the casualties, full Wolverines ahead!"<br /><br />Which means that if the invaders are willing to do civilian atrocities to stop resistance, then what else are they willing to do to civilians? So, thus resistance. And be careful of dealing with civilians.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-72694162098812537882022-01-21T09:17:21.469-08:002022-01-21T09:17:21.469-08:00And if you were young, say around 18, 20 and unemp...And if you were young, say around 18, 20 and unemployed and had gone to one of Herr Hitler's talks (I understand he was mesmerizing; magnetizing might be another good word, as a speaker) and signed up as soon as: now you had something to eat, and a uniform to wear, and someplace to sleep. All of a sudden you found yourself a member of the Einsatzgruppen. Though you had been brought up by devout (as you were yourself), church-going Christian parents, you now found yourself under orders to shoot innocent (maybe), unarmed civilians: what do you do?<br />A five-year-old kid, hidden, should never have listened to these discussions between brothers, cousins, uncles; they were incomprehensible to a child, as well as waatching grown adults breaking down in front of my eyes.boronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05780356895910449471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-64603615194391557382022-01-21T09:14:51.984-08:002022-01-21T09:14:51.984-08:00Bingo!Bingo!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-50787124454451924012022-01-21T09:14:26.168-08:002022-01-21T09:14:26.168-08:00I get that.I get that.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-37325376298540789392022-01-21T09:12:33.635-08:002022-01-21T09:12:33.635-08:00"Better" than your yard."Better" than your yard.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450082315014407506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-67031378330479210012022-01-21T09:09:46.865-08:002022-01-21T09:09:46.865-08:00"Better to die on your feet than live on your..."Better to die on your feet than live on your knees" and, as noted the ones on their knees would die soon anyway.<br />Boat GuyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-68663360305444450602022-01-21T08:32:36.846-08:002022-01-21T08:32:36.846-08:00"Better" of course being relative."Better" of course being relative.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-49859963582851238132022-01-21T08:32:17.416-08:002022-01-21T08:32:17.416-08:00Yup, they're going to kill civilians anyway.Yup, they're going to kill civilians anyway.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-8110782669039281112022-01-21T08:23:44.719-08:002022-01-21T08:23:44.719-08:00Crusty Old TV Tech here. The thought that hit me ...Crusty Old TV Tech here. The thought that hit me as I was reading of the Einsatzgruppen and their evil acts, was this. If I were a Polish soldier in the countryside, upon hearing of this atrocity, what would I do? If we ambush more Germans, the SS kills more of my innocent countrymen. If I do not, the Germans still kill more of us, anyway. You've got to keep doing your job, bringing the battle to the Germans, but now with a fury and a cold-blooded mindset. You know it's a good story when it makes you think "what would I do?".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-19276336542578809542022-01-21T08:20:42.993-08:002022-01-21T08:20:42.993-08:00War sucks, it's better in someone else's b...War sucks, it's better in someone else's backyard.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450082315014407506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-5726371415359669592022-01-21T06:28:49.294-08:002022-01-21T06:28:49.294-08:00Copy all.Copy all.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.com