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Bratwurst Boy   
31 May 2009
News / FRENCH SNUB POLISH WAR EFFORT [50]

guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/31/dday-beevor-hay-festival

Did someone read this book by Beevor?
Bratwurst Boy   
31 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

The most important point to be made about the Kursk operation is this: If the Germans were smart they never would have engaged the Soviets at Kursk.

Well..the point was a comparison between the russian and german panzers...contrary to your "hands down the T-34" statement the stats of Kursk tell it clearly! :)

If we don't have the better Panzers then for sure we had the better crews as they were much more successfull in killing enemy tanks!

(Wittmann was there too!!!)

Sometimes it's better to make objective decisions not fitting to ones political preferences...:)
Bratwurst Boy   
31 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

Hands down the T-34. The T34 was tough, maneuverable, reliable, and could cross virtually any type of terrain.

How many of the 1600 russian tanks shot down at Kursk had been T-34's...hmmm...:)

Like Heisenberg and the bomb?

More like these:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderwaffen

Can you believe it? Already developed 65 years back:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zielger%C3%A4t_1229

Developed for the Wehrmacht, the Zielgerät 1229 (ZG 1229), also known in its code name Vampir, was an active infra-red device for the Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifle intended primarily for night use.

Bratwurst Boy   
31 May 2009
News / FRENCH SNUB POLISH WAR EFFORT [50]

Seems mor like the "shavers" wanted to prove their special braveness with that..
Bratwurst Boy   
31 May 2009
News / FRENCH SNUB POLISH WAR EFFORT [50]

But after the fighting was over they came out in droves greeting the Allies

Yeah...and all and their grandmother having bravely fought in the resistance of course...
Bratwurst Boy   
31 May 2009
News / FRENCH SNUB POLISH WAR EFFORT [50]

I dunno...seems to be the same category like the jokes about american/english pilots and german towers...never happened in reality but makes a good story!
Bratwurst Boy   
31 May 2009
News / FRENCH SNUB POLISH WAR EFFORT [50]

I wonder if Angela is going?

Oh please not!
It was embarassing enough to see Schröder there last time...
Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

but AK-47 has as much to do with German projects as Americans with geographical awareness of anything over 100 miles from where they live.

*throws hands up enervated*

I give up! A beer? I'm paying...

I'll say something nice now.... I like bratwurst.

To have one right now to my beer would be even more nice...:)
Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

I know of Ziolkowski...:)

Tsiolkovsky theorized many aspects of space travel and rocket propulsion. He is considered the father of human spaceflight and the first man to conceive the space elevator, becoming inspired in 1895 by the newly-constructed Eiffel Tower in Paris.

I told ya...we should just merge and join forces!!!
:)
Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4443934.stm

...Added to this, the large number of still-secret Paperclip documents has led many people, including Nick Cook, Aerospace Consultant at Jane's Defence Weekly, to speculate that the US may have developed even more advanced Nazi technology, including anti-gravity devices, a potential source of vast amounts of free energy.

Cook says that such technology "could be so destructive that it would endanger world peace and the US decided to keep it secret for a long time".

Who knows what else they did steal out of Germany and how much of it is still hidden from the public and top secret....
And all this already designed and developed some 65 years back...that is just awe inspiring!
Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

It has been general knowledge whether true or false that Germans were an 'obedient' people, that is, they (literally) marched to orders. Not infrequently, when someone did what he or she was told it was said ''just like a German". Feel free to 'combat' this prevalent premise.

I told you already what I think of that.
The german military didn't work on "orders", the officers and soldiers were trained to think for themselves and to act independently if the need be.

German citizes prefer to follow the laws of the society maybe better than other people (generalization).

Germans were leading in rocketry and among the leaders in jet designs, but the specific case of AK-47 is technically based on M-1 and for that alone it cannot be a "German design".

Maybe I missed something here...could be!
Could you please show me the link where Kalashnikov admits he was inspired by the M1 the same way he admitted he got "help" by Hugo Schmeisser?

Maybe I overlooked something...

And here i was thinking only us Poles get a random Kaczyński urge :))

That was mean!
Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

There's none, they look similar and thats about it

....oh puuleeeeeeze!
Of course the victorious allies couldn't get their hands on german engineers quick enough...they stole the brains and all blueprints they could get...why do you think that was so? Because they all had their own superiour, brilliant designs???

Get a grip man!

The only difference being that the Russians forced "their" Germans to Siberia and the Americans bribed "their" Germans with a good living...

...The range of Germany's technical achievement astounded Allied scientific intelligence experts accompanying the invading forces in 1945.

Supersonic rockets, nerve gas, jet aircraft, guided missiles, stealth technology and hardened armour were just some of the groundbreaking technologies developed in Nazi laboratories, workshops and factories, even as Germany was losing the war....

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4443934.stm
Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

They were to that time often revolutionary designs...and as it is with new "revolutions" they take time to become practicable...time the Germans didn't had.

My favourite is the "Gotha"!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229

Today, 60 years later, it's called "stealth" bomber! :)

Horten Gotha, the first stealth air craft

...
When tested by Northrop-Grumman in early 2009 this application was found to have been successful, making the Ho-229 the first aircraft to successfully incorporate "Stealth Technology" in its design...

Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

i doubt Kalashnikov would need Shmeisser for anything major as you seem to imply.

Well...they needed them enough to kidnap him and let him work for them for years in the Ural...what do you think he did there all the time?

Then the similiarities to the first assault weapon, the Stug 44...
And why the hell should Kalashnikov admit now that he got "help"...nobody had forced him to. He would have surely said now if he was influenced by the US or someone else too.

He could have outlived his life unconcerned by rumours and similiarities...claiming all the prize for himself...if the "help" was so minimal. But he didn't!

The King Tiger is now seen as a prototype of the Panther...still in the "testing phase" if you so want..
At that time Germany had neither the time, nor the material to take her time for a correct development.

Sokrates...you just seem unable to be objective....sorry! :(
Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

Given Kalasznikovs aptitude i doubt Schmeisser had more to do it than rudimentary help, if anything its Americans who are bound to have helped (even though they get no mention) since AK-47 borrows heavily from M1-Garand.

Well...he even admitted it himself....you are not doubting Kalashnikov himself, don't you! :)
Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

Was the T34 as good as the King Tiger? What did Kursk tell us?

Not all Tigers and not all T34's but the numbers speak a clear language:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk

German strenghth:

3,000 tanks
900,000 infantry
2,110 aircraft

German losses:

50,000 dead, wounded, or captured
248 tanks destroyed
200 aircraft downed

Russian strength:

3,600 tanks
20,000 guns
1,300,000 infantry and supporting troops
2,792 aircraft

Russian losses:

180,000 dead, wounded, or captured
1,600 tanks damaged or destroyed
1,000 aircraft damaged or downed

The Germans managed to inflict much more damage than they got.
Hitler ordered the end of the battle because of the allied invasion in Italy.

The victory had not been cheap however; the Red Army, although preventing the Germans from achieving the goals of Citadel, lost considerably more men and matériel than the Wehrmacht .

Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

Well...how should an army function otherwise?
What are you meaning with that???
Or do you mean civilian "orders" as in laws?
Yes, Germans are more prone to actually stop at a red traffic light than foreigners (especially good to observe in Berlin)...yes, I think Germans follows their laws generally (broad generalization of course).

But you don't have to "like" it to accept the need to stop at a red traffic light...or do you mean a German is happily hopping around seeing a red traffic light as in: "YAY! I'm allowed to stop at this red traffic light again..YAY...at last...man I'm so happy, what a great day!"

Do you mean something like this? :)
Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

....another p*ssing contest in the making??? :)

another weapon :

Did you know that the famous AK-47 was german designed (Schmeisser):

Mihail Kalasnikov is admitting he was "helped" by the German inventor and arms maker Hugo Schmeisser to create the AK-47 assault rifle

-- The German inventor developed the first assault weapon Sturmgewehr 44 during WWII. After the end of the war Schmeisser was displaced and forced to work in the Soviet Union

worldaffairsboard.com/small-arms-personal-weapons/50106-mihail-kalashnikov-admits-german-help-create-ak-47-rifle.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle#1940s.E2.80.93early_1950s:_Maschinenkarabiner.2C_Sturmgewehr_.26_AK-47
Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Western Europe and America vs Russia WWII - chances of Poland being saved [494]

It was the first real war situation for the new Wehrmacht and the new tactics...youknowwhatImean!

...

Ja ja..Sokrates...we know....the best Soldier of the world: Polish
The best army of the world: Polish
Always winning (especially against the Germans)
:)

because the German soldier was so obedient,

Depends on what you mean by this!
The high skill level of even the lower NCO's was well known and the german "Auftragstaktik" was notorious with the enemies.

In mission-type tactics the military commander gives their subordinate leaders a clearly defined goal (the mission) and the forces needed to accomplish that goal with a time within which the goal must be reached.
The subordinate leaders then implement the order independently. The subordinate leader is given, to a large extent, the planning initiative and a freedom in execution which allows flexibility in execution...

Especially at the Russian front where men and material fought continously against an overwhelming force the soldiers had to make quick and independent decisions often.

No place for always asking what they should do....

"obedient" as in following their orders....well loyalty and discipline were maintained high till the last days, that's right!
Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
Travel / Now Gdansk is tipped as a hot spot for 2009 [24]

...Gdansk’s old town has been spruced up and the picturesque Bergher houses that line its streets are interspersed with...

Bergher houses? Do they mean the old german Bürgerhäuser?

wdr.de/radio/wdr4/img/galerie/rat_tat/reisetipp/danzig_-_die_altstadt_ gr.jpg
Bratwurst Boy   
30 May 2009
History / Poland and Ukraine [240]

Regarding Gergia, BB, don't be a smart ass. Georgia is an independant country which deserves to be free as anyone else

Don't sell me Saakashvili as freedom fighter.
Even his own countrymen can't stand him anylonger.
cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/02/georgia.protest/index.html
He thought he could use the US and the NATO in his territorial powergames with South Ossetia...well..he gambled and he lost.
Bordering Russia and instable, no chance to become member of the NATO.

For the EU...welll...we didn't digest the last east expansion yet, so it will take time to get ready to admit another country which will cost the members billions to bring it up to standard ...pragmatical reasons, don't take it personally!
Bratwurst Boy   
29 May 2009
History / Poland and Ukraine [240]

Only when Poland agrees to pay for Ukraine and to support Georgia militarily should Saakashvili becoming bored again!

...because sure as hell the other EU countries wont...