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Isn't there a bit in the "Battle of Britain" film where two officers are walking in Berlin when the first raid occurs and one says to the other "You can call me Meyer" (or something like that)?
Isn't it a reference to something that Goering said?

That's really good news Brensec. I think Worthing to Melbourne is a tad too far to commute. LOL

I've seen the jobs they give these volunteers. Usually stripping paint or something involving a wire brush. I gave up all that stuff 40 years ago.

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Oh, Ozzy I think you might be mixing up raids. I'm not sure it's true either. As Brensec points out this is about the first token raid on Berlin as retaliation for the "accidental" bombing of London. The turning point of the BoB. Mossies wouldn't have been involved in that.

Talking about "famous quotes of the 20th century". On the same subject.

After the Yalta conference, where Churchill and (a very sick) Roosevelt made 'ridiculous' concessions to Stalin, just to get him to declare war on an already defeated Japan.

(The ever popular Winston 'Gallipoli' Churchill)
"Chamberlain made the mistake of trusting Hitler. I don't think I've made the same mistake with Stalin."

Hah! Within weeks, Stalin was breaking his word. One particular item comes to mind. The treatment of Russian POWs who had been captured or surrendered to the Germans were, on their return to the USSR, shot or died in labour camps. The very thing 50 million people had just finished dying to rid the world of.

(I wonder, does anyone know if this included  Russian Airmen (and Women) who had been shot down?)
It probably did. How dare they commit the cowardly act of getting shot down!!!! Gees, the Japanese weren't that bad about their blokes!

(I'm sorry, I just hit my own raw nerve.......................funny how that happens......

I just feel sorry for poor Neville. All he really wanted was peace. He just thought that everyone was as genuine as he was. Poor fella' died a broken man.

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I know, mate. Chanmberlain was, in hindsight, naive, to say the least. And Churchill (being on the opposite side of the political fence) wasn't shy in mentioning it when it came to the 'Munich' business.

I'll even go so far as to say that 'Gallipoli' Churchill probably wouldn't have been duped so many times, nor as easily, as any of the other European leaders of the late '30's. Even though from a purely Australian point of view, given that he was directly responsible for probably the greatest single act of wartime 'folly' (against all advice) in the history of modern warfare (at least from an allied point),  he was a great, and probably brilliant wartime leader. He certainly was the main reason for Britains 'tenacity' in those desperate months in 1940, from a rallying point of view.

Then, i suppose we wouldn't have our most sacred holiday if it wasn't for him.
We also wouldn't have RSL Clubs if it wasn't for the Germans.................lol