germany prepares for invasion of Poland

I think in the U.S. education varies from state to state, county to county. I knew about this maneuver at the beginning of WWII, from school, but have also met people who did not.

Different states of the US decide what makes it to their curriculum and what is important in their state.
Unfortunately it seems to me that in some states history seems almost unimportant, with the emphasis being placed instead on "social studies". Which is not the same thing at all.

Admittedly, though, there's also the chance that this was mentioned, but that was the day someone was asleep in class. Most concentrate only on the part *after* the US entered the war, or our part in it.

Just my opinion.

John P.

I agree, its hard to learn about the history of Europe in one chapter.. or even
ten chapters of brief descriptions of accounts of what happened or supposedly
what happened according to the writer.

even on here , theres select few who remember it differently, and or know differently
according to their educational knowledge..

Interwar Warsaw

Ah yes Germany at its best, Morgenthau was right we ought to have sterilized the lot before they died out.

Everything that Germany did in the war was wrong of course but i just can't help admiring their amazing war machine in operations such as blitzkrieg and barbarossa. In my view they are probably only second in history to the Roman war machine.

And then they came to Stalingrad... and they were history... a Red Army history ;-))

Agreed.....had it not been for Herr Hitlers constant interference the German army would have been a lot harder to beat , perhaps impossible....

There are armies and there are politicians...the one will always be the downfall of the other.

Thankfully the Bohemian Corporal was such a military incompetent. A pity the German Army Officer class didn't spot this and kill him earlier on.

Some say he was "enchanted"...17 times...

members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/assassination_attempts.html

...he only laughed!

.. but not enlightened, otherwise he would have remembered Napoleon's forays into Russia and the importance of supply lines.

No...but you must admit to survive overall 42 attacks and to come out still standing with barely a scratch makes people wonder!

Yeah, I didn't know it was that many.. I just knew about the one that left him as he put it, "with a baboon's ass" or something. Paraphrasing.