"The German fight is a defensive fight." (Nazi's on Outbreak of WWII)

[norml]

The English wanted this war in the crazy hope that it was their last chance to stop Germany's growing strength. They passionately avoided doing anything that might have prevented war. Rather than encouraging Poland to accept the Führer's generous proposals to resolve the situation, they encouraged it to let the deadline pass, thereby providing a reason for war. The Führer felt obliged to strike back only after Polish troops had crossed the German border at several places. The German fight is a defensive fight. We fight because we were forced to fight by the insults and demands against us, because of the brutal suppression of ethnic Germans in Poland, and because of the open announcements that they would do everything in their power to strangle National Socialist Germany through military or economic means.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/wehr02.htm

[LynnTheDem]

1. As the signs in Germany say...

Same shit. Different assholes.

[norml]

6. "Day of Freedom 1940" (In honor of their bringing "Freedom" to Poland)

[mike_c]

2. fighting them over there...

Like Lynnsin says: same shit, different day.

[Selatius]

3. Bullshit propaganda

The real truth was this:

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

[Fovea]

4. If we can fight the Bolsheviks in Stalingrad

we won't have to fight them in Berlin!

[norml]

5. "German soldiers in particular, do not take revenge on defenseless"

Germans in general, and German soldiers in particular, do not take revenge on defenseless opponents, or even torture them. The opposite is the case. The danger is that German generosity will too quickly lead us to forget our victorious position, and presume our own decent attitudes and behavior on the part of the enemy, whether soldier or civilian.

That is why news of atrocities that our enemies commit against Germans or the civilians under their rule are often greeted with a certain skepticism. One doesn't not believe others can do what one is oneself incapable of doing. We remember that reports of the bestial brutalities committed by Poles against ethnic Germans, especially in Bromberg, were thought to be exaggerated. Meanwhile, the German people have learned the truth.

But every bloody and sadistic butchery in human history is thrown into the shadows by that which German soldiers have already seen with their own eyes in the Soviet Union. As they themselves write, they will never forget it until they die!


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http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/feldpost.htm

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Back it up to the invasion of Poland being a defensive maneuver.

Germany claimed that German citizens living around the German-Polish border in Poland were being persecuted by Poland. The Third Reich government sent out hollow, gratuitous warnings for the persecution to stop. Poland was bewildered and amused. Until the German troops marched across the border with a few tanks, and thus the commencement of World War II. England was an afterthought.

[The Sleeper]

8. Uh, that would be WWII, instead of WWI, eh ?

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Conceded and corrected. Thank you.