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The Secrets of Hitler's Last Living Aide
spiegel ^ | July 30, 2007 | By Ralf Simon

Posted on 08/02/2007 3:46:33 AM PDT by Flavius

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21 posted on 08/02/2007 8:09:09 AM PDT by VOA
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To: mkjessup
A lot of “German” troops defending Berlin at the end were non-German. Many soldiers were Swedish or other nationalities. They had bought into Nazi ideals. Most fought very hard in part because they had at that point nothing left to go back to. Many would have been considered traitors in their own countries.
22 posted on 08/02/2007 8:46:31 AM PDT by nomorelurker (wetraginhell)
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To: Flavius
I thought that headline..said "The Secrets of Hillary's Last Living Aide"

ROFLOL!

23 posted on 08/02/2007 8:48:49 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Steal from one person, and you're a criminal. Steal from EVERYONE, and you're a Government.)
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To: nomorelurker

“Many would have been considered traitors in their own countries.”

Considered traitors? They WERE traitors.


24 posted on 08/02/2007 8:50:53 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: No Truce With Kings

Not necessarily - many foreign soldiers volunteered to fight the communists - this would not make them traitors, since they had no allegiance to the USSR. A similar example would be foreigners who joined the U.S. Army during Vietnam to fight the communists there.


25 posted on 08/02/2007 8:55:09 AM PDT by Howard Jarvis Admirer (i)
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To: Flavius

The “secret” is who shot Eva Braun’s brother-in-law, an SS General who disobeyed orders and left the bunker in late April. Insignificant.


26 posted on 08/02/2007 8:56:33 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (eHarmony reject)
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To: Flavius
Hitler Gets Banned (His Ultimate Downfall)
27 posted on 08/02/2007 8:56:34 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Flavius

Enough about Ted Kennedy already!!


28 posted on 08/02/2007 9:01:56 AM PDT by tracer
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To: lowbridge

“Downfall” is a great movie.

Based on the story told by one of Hitler’s young secretaries.

Done in German, but I didn’t find the subtitles hard to follow at all.

Strangely, I hardly noticed them, actually.


29 posted on 08/02/2007 9:03:41 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats??)
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To: Oberon

Even the Waffen SS was during the last phase of the war full of conscripts.


30 posted on 08/02/2007 9:06:09 AM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: mkjessup; Petronski; tcostell

Most German citizens weren’t in the military, weren’t running the ovens either BUT they were glad they were running. I don’t feel sorry for him at all. While he was Hitler’s bodyguard and telephone operator, there were babies getting smashed to bits by men in the streets. It’s the quiet complicity of people like him that allowed Hitler to continue. Now he’s writing a book about it :eyeroll:


31 posted on 08/02/2007 9:06:45 AM PDT by cyborg (Long Island Half Marathon finisher!)
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To: 2banana
I can’t believe this story - FRENCH TROOPS THAT ACTUALLY FOUGHT????

For the Nazis. 

32 posted on 08/02/2007 9:14:58 AM PDT by zeugma (If I eat right, don't smoke and exercise, I might live long enough to see the last Baby Boomer die.)
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To: gr8eman
Einmal Klingel Dingel

I think I had a class with that guy...
33 posted on 08/02/2007 12:51:36 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: No Truce With Kings

“They WERE traitors.”

What if you were a Ukrainian father of German heritage who saw his parents and siblings perish in the 1932 Holdomor - along with 10 million others (while the world covered it up).

When the Nazis rose to power primarily because of its anticommunism and it drove out the communists, who would you have fought for?

http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/order/general/sinner.html


34 posted on 08/02/2007 3:28:44 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: Flavius
"Aide" defined very, very broadly.

But this apparently is translated from the German.

35 posted on 08/02/2007 3:34:04 PM PDT by x
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To: spanalot; Howard Jarvis Admirer

Amazing. There are actually people on this forum that defend Nazis.

In-effing-credible.


36 posted on 08/02/2007 7:25:39 PM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: No Truce With Kings

“Amazing. There are actually people on this forum that defend Nazis.

In-effing-credible.”

No one defending Nazis here but you are certainly advancing the leftist tradition of communist genocide obfuscation.


37 posted on 08/02/2007 7:30:30 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: No Truce With Kings

Incidentally, Ukraine is the only country that mounted significant campaigns against both the Communists and Fascists -losing more than any other nation.

http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/page-29.html


38 posted on 08/02/2007 7:35:20 PM PDT by spanalot
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Even the Waffen SS was during the last phase of the war full of conscripts.

Yes, and one of them turned out to be none other than Gunter Grass. I don't blame him for that, but I do for living a life of deceit afterward.

39 posted on 08/02/2007 7:35:54 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: No Truce With Kings

In-effing-credible, isn’t it.


40 posted on 08/02/2007 7:36:09 PM PDT by spanalot
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