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southern   
11 Jan 2008
History / Jewish love towards Poles [389]

On Dec. 26 1944

On Dec 26 allied troops had already reached Belgium.Moreover oil facilities were a far more crucial military target,it had to do with german ability to move tanks in Ardennes.

Maybe planes could hit Auschwitz coming from Italy after the collapse of Gustav line.
southern   
11 Jan 2008
Love / From a Turkish Man! What I heard about Polish girls from my friends :) [53]

Afetr having been in Poland women in other countries seem considerably uglier.Poland is the only country that has this effect.After staying in other slavic countries like Ukraine or Slovakia,foreign women may seem even exotic but not after staying in Poland.

Polish beauty is devastating.
Even the ''farm faces'' are more atractive than the average girl's appearance in countries outside Poland.You call them farm faces because you compare them with the local super top,hot sexy alternative style.
southern   
11 Jan 2008
History / Jewish love towards Poles [389]

At the same time the allies were bombing German industrial installations which were located deeper inside the occupied territories than Auschwitz

Where do you mean?B-29s from France could not even reach Warsaw in September 1944 without having to land in russian occupied teritorry.
southern   
11 Jan 2008
History / Jewish love towards Poles [389]

There was only one way to save Jews.Germans proposed through swedish embassy in late 1943-early 1944 that they would stop all the concentration camps and transfer Jews to Sweden if western allies agreed to stop war against Germany under conditions.The proposal was rejected and the extermination of Jews completed.
southern   
11 Jan 2008
History / Jewish love towards Poles [389]

President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hour-long tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial

He should cry together with Merckel and Putin.
southern   
10 Jan 2008
Life / Do Polish people tend to stick together? [49]

a far greater respect for the increasing Russian community who really do seem to help each other out.

Let me guess the jobs done by the increasing russian community.
southern   
9 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

it was actualy the Hohenstaffen(9th ss) and frunsberg(10th ss) divisions at arnhem

You are right.Wikipedia writes they had very few heavy armor and only 3000 men each.
southern   
9 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

to ss veterens

SS Panzer Hochenstaufen and Lehr which were in Arnhem never participated in atrocities.
southern   
9 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

surely a post war plane?

They completed it in 1947 and placed it on North Pole in order to be able to bomb USA in case of war.
southern   
9 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

BTW,do you really suppose a bazooka rocket penetrated ever a tigers armour?

No.Maybe they could cut the track of them but I am not sure.However they could penetrate the lateral armour of Panzer 3 and 4 which were the majority in the front.

Neither of which used by the Soviets

They were military secrets.The Soviets would copy them if they got them in their hands(as they actually did with the B-29).
southern   
9 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Isthatu seems well informed and maybe has used some of the guns he describes because he tells technical details.
Only sometimes he omits some facts which you have to remind of.
southern   
9 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Nope,sorry,the British army never used bazooka's,they for some daft reason stuck with the PIAT

Wrong choice.PIATs could not penetrate german tank armour.

Yep,we used jeeps

This was the most successful american product after the B-29 and the Mustangs.

that most of the landing craft used by the british and canadian forces in Normandy were RN british built ships.The small higgins boats as seen in Saving Private Ryan et all were not used by the british,in fact,many of the landing ships used by US force in Normandy were British built crewed by RN sailors.

I did not know that.The Higgins were considered ideal.I consider it is possible what you tell.

er,so what,they were still some of gitlers finest ,toughest troops

It was bad decision of Montgomery which delayed the allied progress.These troops were very reduced by the time of the attack but the lack of heavy armour in british air borne divisions made their success almost impossible.
southern   
9 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Lithuania again demands compensation for "Soviet occupation"

Do you think Russia is the legal successsor of Soviet Union?Why not asking compensation from Ukraine,Belarus,Kazakhstan as well?And what does occupation mean?

Lithuania was considered to join SU by the free will of its population.I did not see any western government recognizing an independant Lithuania in 1945-1991.

For the period 1939-1941 they can ask Germans to whom they should be grateful for their independance in 1941-1944.
They can also ask Israel for compensation.
southern   
9 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

with the exeption of the odd tommy gun and Sherman tanks

These were crucial weapons.They made a difference.Also bazookas instead of Boys and Piats,american food supplies,jeeps,the carriers in Normandy landing...

from the mouths of 9th and 10th wSS troops I have met.

Which were there for reorganization having lost almost all their heavy weapons in France.
southern   
9 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

ou may like to talk to a few wSS vets like I have who fought against the British airborne lads in Normandy or Arnhem,

I have read books written by Wehrmacht soldiers and german commandos who regarded the british troops on Kreta in 1941 far superior to british troops they met later in Tunis,Italy and Arnhem.The british army became gradually worse instead of improving and became totally dependant on american weapons.
southern   
9 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Wrong,"we" still had cavelry brigades upto 1941/2.

I mean the supply lines were fully motorized.
Also the PPSh41 proved its value in Stalingrand battle wher it proved superior to german MP40 turning many german soldiers to start using captured PPSh41s instead of their guns.The mashine gun Degatrajev was also good although inferior to german MG42,the best mashine gun ever produced.

In contrast the only british element among ground forces that Germans respected was the artillery.
southern   
9 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

and Studebaker trucks.

These trucks were very important.They gave the red army great flexibility and improved the supply lines dramatically.Wehrmacht suffered from a serious lack in track numbers as the ones produced in Germany were not enough to cover the needs,so it made extensive use of horses in supply lines.

When the british army became fully motor mobilised in 1936,it sold all its horses to Wehrmacht.The paradox was that the horses helped greatly in the campaign against Soviet Union as they were the only means of transportation in a rural land with no roads or bad manufactured roads full of rasputnica,where the trucks could not move at all.
southern   
9 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Well, Yeltsin was an enemy civilian, that wasnt killed, but it doesnt meant he was less dangerous than Trotsky.

Yeltsin was a sero compared to Trotsky.An alcoholic demagogue of very low quality who had planed everything with Gorbatsev even their ''conflicts.''

Yeah, I was in the tank museum in Weymouth once and T-34 really has some good specs - even better that many later projects.

Russians never really used the Shermans americans gave them regarding them of much lower performance than T-34s and JS.Oppoiste to British who jumped to them to find relief from their Vickers.
southern   
8 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

actually,the papasha was very rae at the start of barbarosa,the ppd 40 was more commen and even that was rare compared to the german MP 38/40 or even the MP28s

T-34 was far superior than any british tank of the same period,superior than american Sherman tanks and better than german Panzers 3 and 4.It was an unpleasant surprise for german troops when they could not penetrate the armour of T-34 by anti-tank weapons and tanks but only by the 88mm cannon.The german marshalls proposed to Hitler that german industry copies exactly the T-34.They used all captured T-34s they captured in Eastern front.Hitler did not like to get a product of the inferior Slavs and gave orders to produce the Tiger and Panther.These tanks were designed to cope with the T-34 in first place but never reached its level of production and its low price.
southern   
8 Jan 2008
Life / Racist violence in Poland [172]

There is a heavy atmosphere of social control in some polish cities but I guess it regards everyone,it is not racism.Poles are rather friendly with foreigners if they look decent.
southern   
8 Jan 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

I just dont see how killing enemies can be a sign of bad leadership.

And we talk about soldiers,enemies in uniforms,not civilians.