Posted on 07/22/2007 2:26:50 PM PDT by BGHater
Of course, you all know what this means: The genocide, which the allies denied knowing about til after the war, was well known to the allies, and so, this will become just another way to bash the good guys, the ones who defeated these monsters.
I was curious about the term myself....I found this:
Origin and use of the terms
Before the rise of the NSDAP, the term Wehrmacht was used in a generic sense to describe armed forces of any nation, being utilized as the “home defense” version of the more general Streitmacht. For example, the term Britische Wehrmacht would identify the British armed forces. Article 47 of the Weimar Constitution of 1919 declared “Der Reichspräsident hat den Oberbefehl über die gesamte Wehrmacht des Reiches” (meaning: “The Reichspräsident holds supreme command of all armed forces of the Reich”). To make a distinction, the term Reichswehr was commonly used to identify the German armed forces.
In 1935, the Reichswehr was renamed Wehrmacht. After World War II and under the Allied occupation of Germany, the Wehrmacht was abolished. When West Germany remilitarized in 1955, its newly-created armed forces became known as the Bundeswehr (”Federal Defence Force”). East Germany’s armed forces, formally established in 1956, were known as the National People’s Army (Nationale Volksarmee). When East Germany (the German Democratic Republic) was incorporated into “West Germany” (the Federal Republic of Germany) in 1990, much of the Volksarmee property and some of the staff were also incorporated into the Bundeswehr.
Hence the term Wehrmacht customarily refers to Germany’s armed forces during the Nazi Germany era and World War II, both in German and English. Note: It is incorrect to equate Wehrmacht with only the army (Wehrmacht Heer). Wehrmacht vehicles used by Heer, Luftwaffe or Kriegsmarine had license plates with WH, WL or WM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht#Origin_and_use_of_the_terms
The turning point in the Battle of Britain, came after Berlin was airbombed for the first time.
Hitler was so angered by the bombing, that he switched from tactical bombing Britain to terror bombing. This had two negative effects for the Nazis. First, it strengthened British resolve, and second, stopping the bombing of military installations allowed the British military to regroup.
That is where the Battle of Britain was lost for the Germans.
Wonder what abortionists say to one another when they meet at a party - or an orgy, or whatever abortionists go to.
No they do not have a problem even with allies of ours, who took bullets for many an SF soldier, in RVN either. The Montagnard people have paid dearly for being loyal to us. Go to “Save The Montagnard People” Website.
This article is all part of a vast Jewish conspiracy.
Don’t you know the Jews control everything?
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Absolutely horrific. Shame we didnt have nukes a few years earlier.
OK, I’m being sarcastic, but that’s what the Holocaust deniers will probably say.
>>Hitler was so angered by the bombing, that he switched from tactical bombing Britain to terror bombing.
More specifically, he switched from bombing the RAF’s fighter airfields and radar installations, to terror bombing of population centers.
Do we expect to see this in the NYT, WaPo, or New Yorker?
They will think about it and think how they can spin it against the current administration.
Big things don’t happen by accident and without the big people knowing. Whether it is Enron, immigration or genocide.
The next time someone tells you that the Nazis were Christians, remember what Ullersperger said.
Every one of them guilty as sin itself, and every one of them following der feuhrer's orders, just like the good kraut that he is.
I have some questions and I think they’re good ones:
Why was this information buried all these years?
Who would gain and — more importantly — who would lose if these recordings were disclosed sooner?
Goering made a sppech before Berlin was bombed that if any bombs fell on Berlin, you could call him “Mayer” (IIRC), i.e., a Jewish name. After Germany began being bombed, many people jokingly referred to Goering as “Mayer” — very quietly, of course.
Just a few weeks ago I spoke to a lady who grew up in wartime Berlin — the stories she told were amazing! She said that they had a system of internal spying that was so effective that you dared not discuss things openly with family members. Several people were arrested in her apartment building.
The story that was put out among the public about the disappeared Jews was that they were being re-educated or something. Nobody asked questions out of fear.
Absolute nonsense -- that's the old disinformation that the German people didn't know what was going on, didn't really support the Nazis, and only went along with Hitler's policies because of fear. Nothing could be further from the truth.
If any German didn't know that the Jews of Europe were being killed, it was because they didn't want to know. The overwhelming majority knew what was happening, and they supported it. They may not have known about gassings vs shootings, or the location or size of Auschwitz, Treblinka, etc., but they knew of and supported the end result -- the extermination of European Jewry.
Let it be known that many Christians were also put to death by the Nazis.
Thousands of Catholic priests and Christian pastors were forced into concentration camps at Dachau.
And, of course, there was the “ racial purification program “ for the Gypsy’s, the mentally retarded, etc.
Obviously, that is correct. My point was that was what the propaganda was. The lady admitted that her parents had to have known what was really going on. I see a distinct difference between “support” and keeping your head down, however.
Ask yourself: if you were an unarmed parent of small children in an evil dictatorship, how would you respond? We all hope that we would show courage and resist, but would we rerally, knowing that our actions would lead to the deaths of our families?
This has implications for us. It’s not impossible that one day we in the U.S. might be faced with something similar. What then?
But this also means that the British and by extension, the American’s knew too.
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