World War II in Photos- Alan Taylor

ledhead · Jul 21, 2011

ismaele00 said:
Yes, both Bakemeacookie and Spartacus are right.

Usually people, not only Americans, think that the WWII was a war between the Axis and the Allies... don't know about Finalnd and many other countries... e.g. people know about Japanese Empire because of some movies about Pearl Harbor, but don't know about the Winter War, Blue Division, or Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Iraq or Thailand who fight by the Axis...

And what if I told you about black people who fight by the IIIrd Reich? In the Afrikan Korps under Rommel orders...

Do tell.

ismaele00 · Jul 21, 2011

ledhead said:
[/b]Do tell.

I did.

In the Afrikan Korps under Rommel orders...

German Afrika Korps

CoBra666 · Jul 21, 2011

ww2 never happened. all blasphemy

ledhead · Jul 21, 2011

ismaele00 said:
I did.

German Afrika Korps

No bro, I meant tell us about the black soldiers because I never heard of that before. I know the Afrikan Korps was made up of German and Italian soldiers in the African Campaign. I never heard of actual African people fighting under Rommel. I could be wrong....

javaguru · Jul 22, 2011

ledhead said:
No bro, I meant tell us about the black soldiers because I never heard of that before. I know the Afrikan Korps was made up of German and Italian soldiers in the African Campaign. I never heard of actual African people fighting under Rommel. I could be wrong....

My guess would be indigenous forces used as police/auxiliaries as opposed to organized as fighting units at higher than battalion level.

On an unrelated note, in a lecture on the Napoleonic era we had a dude that loved to bring up questions about Napoleon and Abyssinian mercenaries.

javaguru · Jul 22, 2011

Did they mention the Slavic SS Divisions as well as the cavalry Cossack division?

Germany was able to raise a lot of manpower from occupied countries.

ledhead · Jul 22, 2011

javaguru said:
My guess would be indigenous forces used as police/auxiliaries as opposed to organized as fighting units at higher than battalion level.

On an unrelated note, in a lecture on the Napoleonic era we had a dude that loved to bring up questions about Napoleon and Abyssinian mercenaries.

Yeah, that's what I was leaning towards, the natives being Rommel's flunkies somehow. Remember dude you were in the army. A battalion is small to you, my division only had three battalions, so to me that's still a lot of people.

sterolizer · Jul 22, 2011

Great post, loved seeing the pictures, my grandpa fought in worldwar II and seeing the reality of those pictures really puts things into perspective for me. A lot of young, good men and women lost their lives, my respect is given to everyone who died fighting for our freedom, which, we now have today. And what really shocks me is how such a little country like germany got so powerful, to where the rest of the world had to step in and struggled to defeat them.

ledhead · Jul 22, 2011

sterolizer said:
Great post, loved seeing the pictures, my grandpa fought in worldwar II and seeing the reality of those pictures really puts things into perspective for me. A lot of young, good men and women lost their lives, my respect is given to everyone who died fighting for our freedom, which, we now have today. And what really shocks me is how such a little country like germany got so powerful, to where the rest of the world had to step in and struggled to defeat them.

It goes back to WWI, the Germans had to sign a "guilt clause" for starting WWI. Therefore, they were stripped of the colonies, military, had to pay back an enormous war indemnity. Hence, their economy collapsed to the point where their fiat currency was about worthless (hyperinflation). If I'm not mistaken at one point 20million German dollars was worth one American dollar. Yeah, it was that bad. The German people became bitter because of the guilt clause the had signed, and the Weimer Republic failed to get the economy going. Consequentially, Hitler played on the pop culture or what the German people wanted to hear. Hitler, started building a secrete war economy and it worked, the economy started to boom. Hitler won the hearts and minds of the German people. Deemed as a savior.

Second, when Hitler started his shenanigans by taking the Sudetenland, the British and the French started to get the jitters. So, Chamberlain (British PM) went to Munich and met with Hitler. Hitler lied and said the Sudetenland was the only place he wanted because they were all German speaking, eating people. Chamberlain fell for it (appeasement policy), Hitler invaded Poland a month later.
The reason why the British and the French did not try to stop him is because they became pacifists after WW1, both countries took crazy casualties, so they were afraid to lose more people because WWI was so horrific. Besides, the British did not have a military, they disarmed in a result of WWI, but the French could have stopped the Germans but they did not want to go through another WWI, so they let Hitler go. Hitler knew this, so he went with it. He signed a peace treaty with Stalin (Nazi-Soviet Pact) then renigged, so they fought a two front war, which his advisors told him not to do, but he did not listen.

The US knew what Hitler was doing in the 30's but stayed out of it. The US got involved when multinational interests were being threatened by Japan in China.

Then they sent the Devil Dawgs, then it was over. I hoped this helped some, there is more to it.

ismaele00 · Jul 22, 2011

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