Posted on 08/05/2010 4:27:58 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
I can’t argue that. I definitely is a form of life support at winter football games. (mixed with hot chocolate of course)
The deer-hunting gentlemen would never give me any, because I’m a girl.
The Leader was known to sip an occasional bier.
Those looked like Nip bombers to me, as well.
True, so it doesn't make him a teetotaler by definition. He was not much for the drink though so sip would be an good representation of how he drank. Author Ian Kershaw mentions an instance at the fall of Czecho-Slovakia in which they toasted its fall with a glass of Pilsner. Hitler tasted it, but didn't like it since it was, in his opinion, too bitter for him. But I would have to imagine that it would be difficult to be completely separated from beer as a Nazi considering their predominant meeting places during the early days.
That’s not fair. The Schnapps is just to keep the blood warm.
I've long been fascinated by questions such as: how did the Nazis do so well in the beginning, but then fail in the end?
Well.... hmmmmmm... could this be the real reason?
You know, the Germans are a stoic people, accustomed to hardships and long suffering. In extreme conditions they can tolerate pretty much anything, and still continue to function.
But they will not tolerate the absence of beer -- or even inadequate beer. So, I predict that if the Nazis try to deprive them, they will find their unbeatable blitz-krieg machine suddenly bogged down in the mud and unable to move anywhere, except homeward... ;-)
Very interesting article.
US General John Pershing commanded the expeditionary force in what is here called "the other war."
Pershing came from the U.S. Grant Unconditional Surrender school of military strategy, and disagreed with southern President Wilson's "peace with honor" formulations.
Pershing believed in 1918 that the allies needed to thoroughly defeat Germany and march into Berlin, so there would never be any doubt about it in German minds.
He predicted that President Wilson's approach would simply result in a round-two in twenty years.
Sadly, his prediction came all-to-true, but it is most interesting to note that Pershing did not at this time call for another US expeditionary force to Europe.
Instead he says the US must support Britain with old destroyers, and begin to prepare for war.
Maybe the lack of beer sapped the fighting spirit and Will of the Germans...in the same sense - now here I go completely off topic but a friend of mine mentioned it yesterday watching golf on TV and your comments reminded me of it- the same way that a lack of extra curricular women may have apparently sapped the fighting spirit and Will of Tiger Woods. Who knows?? Something sure has changed inside him.
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