Zionism and the Third Reich

The really big mystery of Judaism: the question of why any Jew in his right mind would ever vote for a demokkkrat....

That really multiculture, living together with people from every country in Africa

Literacy?

farmerman : you are up to no good again , aren't you
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND MAY YOUR BEES GIVE YOU LOTS OF HONEY
hbg

What an amazing coincidence. Look what i have found, this actually compliments my original thread title :





[size=25]Hitler's Soldier's Photos
by Bryan Mark Rigg, PhD.[/size]

Pictures from Bryan's book, Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military


Side and front photographs of "half-Jew" Anton Mayer, similar to those that often accompanied a Mischling's application for exemption.


Military service book of "half-Jew" Hermann Aub


Soldiers taking the oath of allegiance to Hitler


"Half-Jew" Horst Geitner was awarded both the Iron Cross Second Class and the Silver Wound Badge.

This photo of "half-Jew" Werner Goldberg, who was blond and blue-eyed, was used by a Nazi propaganda newspaper for its title page. Its caption: "The Ideal German Soldier."

MORE PHOTOS

Zippo here seems to be a sort of an expert on the 3'rd Reich.... perhaps we could prevail upon him to answer a few simple questions which I've never seen a reasonable answer to.

The problem I have understanding the history of nazi Germany is that Germans are supposed to be a superior intellectual race and Hitler was supposed to be some sort of an all-around genius. That makes several of the things you read about WW-II very hard to understand.

Basically, the Japanese should not have been there; they were totally dependant upon their merchant marine and yet had no clearcut idea of how to conduct antisubmarine warfare. But Hitler and the nazis had several very clear cut chances to win and, in fact, there are about a baker's dozen things Hitler could have done differently, any two or three of which would likely have won the war for him.

• He could have simply not invaded Russia. The CCCP was on the edge of collapse in 37 - 39; he could have waited five years and picked up the pieces for free.
  
• He could have started WW-II with the 300 ocean-going U-Boats which Doenitz wanted instead of spending money on pocket battleships.
  
• He could have built medium-sized carriers like our Independance class to go out with the U-Boats and had fighter cover over the U-Boats so that escort ships could not attack them. A wolfpack with fighter cover could have sat there on the surface and sunk entire convoys.
  
• He could have made Franco some sort of an offer he'd have been unable to refuse and gained control over Gibralter and the Med.
  
• He could have entered the war with some sort of a modern rifle in his soldieres hands instead of Mausers. That was basically stupid.
  
• He could have given the goahead for using the jet Messerschmidt as an area defense fighter in 39. Allied bombers would never have been able to fly over Germany had he done so.
  

There are a dozen or so others like that, like I say, doing any two or three of those things right would have won for him.

What went wrong????

Whattsamatter, "zippo"?? Cat got your tongue???

Dumb and dumber

If you were actually as bright as you fancy yourself, Joe, you wouldn't be living in Chicago...

Cat obvoiusly has old zippo's tongue.

Whattsa matter, zippo? Didn't know your man Adolf made that many bad moves???

gunga, Here's the reason why CHICAGO is a great city. Do you know anything about "culture?"

I know culture wouldn't have anything to do with whatever keeps Joe in Chicago....

One of the new "innovative" sentences? What for??

Still no word from "Zippo" lately.....

Shame. I was hoping he'd at least have some sort of an explanation for the simplest thing I noted above, i.e. the idea of German foot soldiers going into WW-II with Mausers in their hands when they knew the Americans would have M1s. Maybe not quite as bad as what Santino Corleoni mentioned "I don't want my brother standing there with just his DICK in his hand....", but not much better than that.....

I mean, granted expecting a dummy like Hitler to figure out the things about invading Russia or having enough U-boats might have been a bit of a stretch, but the leader of the master race really shouldn't be sending his soldiers into battle with outmoded rifles.

The Wehrmacht didn't have any Mauser pistol, at least not officially.
(Standard pistol was the Walther P38 as well as the P08 [Luger])

I believe he is referring to the Mauser infantry rifle, Walter. That is evidence of shallow thinking, however. The German infantryman in a defensive position basically served to support and supply one of the many machine guns which each infantry division deployed.

The American M1 was certainly superior to the Mauser, but American divisions had only a small fraction of the number of light and heavy machine guns which were issued to German infantry divisions. In the excellent book on the 29th Infantry Division (National Guard, Virginia and Maryland, known as "the Blue-Gray Division"), entitled Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Division in Normandy, by Joseph Balkoski, there is an appendix which compares the table of organization of the 29th Division to the German 352nd Division. The American division's machine guns are mostly heavy machine guns, which aren't very useful in attack at any event. The 352nd has about 20 times as many machine guns, most of them light machines guns, which allowed the Germans not only to conduct a punishing defense, but to quickly fall back to set up their light machine guns again, and continue to inflict heavy casualties on the attacker.

The Mauser may not have been much of an infantry weapon in comparison to the M1 rifle, but the Germans didn't rely upon riflemen to inflict on the Allies the very high casualties which were suffered in the Norman hedgerow country.

Better that than living under a rock.

From the middle of the war onwards, the Sturmgewehr (last version 44) was the standard rifle in the Wehrmacht.
Before that, it was the Karabiner 41 and 43.

The K98k surely was the most produced rifle. (The rifle board on board still was for those although we had the G3; and today, it's used by the Guard Bataillion.)

for gunga's "personal" defence : sturmgewehr 44



i understand one isn't even allowed to bring it onto an airplane any more
hbg

I don't know the exact answer to that... my understanding has always been that the 44 was never really produced in quantities and today is a very rare thing, I mean I've never seen the first one at a gunshow or anything like that.

George Patton was a bit more of an expert on this sort of a thing than any of us are and he said that the M1 was one of the super weapons of WW II, in other words war isn't just about heavy bombers and aircraft carriers; rifles are still the most major weapon of war and if one side in a war has any sort of a major advantage in rifles, that's huge.

Other than that, I' ve never heard anybody say anything good about the G3; Germans used it after WW-II mainly because the Belgians still regarded them as a$$holes and wouldn't sell them FAL rifles.