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Question: Who was the most threatening country in WWII?
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America    
  16 (18.0%)
Britain    
  9 (10.1%)
France    
  8 (9.0%)
Germany    
  18 (20.2%)
Japan    
  13 (14.6%)
Poland    
  7 (7.9%)
Russia    
  11 (12.4%)
Eastern Bloc (non Russia)     
  7 (7.9%)




Total votes: 89

So, who?
« Created by: Flt.Lt.Andrew on: Jul 27th, 2005 at 5:24am »

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Reply #30 - Oct 25th, 2005 at 11:30am

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That's OK Andrew, I said that because I saw most of the votes said that Germany was the biggest badass.


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I would have said the biggest threat was Switzerland, afterall they've got everyones money


Eh? I saw an atlas recently, and strangly, it said that the richest country was Luxembourg! That atlas was from the 80s though, I think. How could that small country be very rich? ??? ??? ??? Lips Sealed Embarrassed
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I've been reading a book on Poland's fighter pilots in Britain during WWII and it has quite a bit of information on how Poland was betrayed


Those wierd Poles. Poland wasn't betrayed, and even though it wasn't the German fighter pilots fault that Poland was invaded (it was Hitler's, that a$$**le!) the Poles serving in the RAF shot up those Deutsche Jägers when they'de parachuted. Those Poles hated the Germans so much they forgot it was the Nazis who decided to invade Poland. The German pilots were ordered to, and they could face court marshalling or something if they felt sympathy for the Poles and headed back to base or fled. So they weren't betrayed by Britain and they commited war crimes! Good day to them! Angry

That wasn't the first time Poland was conquered by the Germans. The Tuetonic Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa conquered it to make living space for the rapidly growing, flourishing Holy Roman Empire (Germany really Roll Eyes).
 

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Reply #31 - Oct 27th, 2005 at 3:52am
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What you say about the parachutes is only one side. Originally it was the Germans who shot parachutes and the Poles returned the favour in the battle of Britain! I'm not saying it was right, just how it is. Often, in the Battle of Poland, Polish fighter pilots helped downed Germans out of aircraft and even bandaged them up. The Poles had (in their opinion) every reason to hate the Germans for invading their country and doing terrible things to their people- deportation of Jews, the Katyn Massacre. While it's fair to say that the German people didnt do these things, it is fair to say that a portion of the blame must lie with them for not doing anything to stop it. Also, Hitler sincerley believed Poland had no right to exist- he beleived it to be Prussia- and therefore living space, taken away from Germany after Versailles.


Second of all, you say they weren't  betrayed by the British. (you provided no evidence to the contrary)  However, the Brits promised to liberate Poland, which is the reason they went to war in the first place. Churchill then ceded to Stalin's demands for eastern europe, taking places such as Lublin, in return for Britain having a 100% hold on Greece.

Thirdly, you say they were war criminals. While you make special effort to separate the Nazis, Hitler and the Germans, you make no such effort to do the same for the Poles. For them it was simply a case of Quid Pro Quo . The Germans were partly responsible for giving Hitler a mandate and not stopping his atrocities (and dont give me that "They couldn't fight the SS!"crap) . Men like Dietrich Bonhoffer tried, because he saw that it was wrong and that it must stop.
All countries have war criminals- no one is perfect.

Lastly I suggest you read the Polish national anthem, called 'Poland lives on as long as we still live.' They are good people, who are tenacious.They have had a damn hard time of it.


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Reply #32 - Oct 27th, 2005 at 4:31am

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Looks like WW2 has been extended.Roll Eyes With all else in the world, is this little Australian Civil War going to get explosive? Sad
 
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Reply #33 - Oct 27th, 2005 at 5:44am
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With all else in the world, is this little Australian Civil War going to get explosive? Sad


Fighting with sticks in the outback while riding on kangaroos and throwing all kins of creepy and toxic reptiles at themselves, I doubt that we'll hear even a single "ka-boom" from down under.
Methinks we wouldn't give a crap anyways. Wink
 
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Reply #34 - Oct 28th, 2005 at 2:17am
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There's so much outback we could be fighting for years and you'd never hear of us!  Grin Grin Grin


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Reply #35 - Oct 28th, 2005 at 3:14am

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Which reminds me that I have a lot stuff to work on and clean up out back. Roll Eyes Tongue 8)
 
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Reply #36 - Oct 28th, 2005 at 3:43am
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lol!


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Reply #37 - Oct 30th, 2005 at 9:39am

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What you say about the parachutes is only one side. Originally it was the Germans who shot parachutes and the Poles returned the favour in the battle of Britain! I'm not saying it was right, just how it is. Often, in the Battle of Poland, Polish fighter pilots helped downed Germans out of aircraft and even bandaged them up. The Poles had (in their opinion) every reason to hate the Germans for invading their country and doing terrible things to their people- deportation of Jews, the Katyn Massacre. While it's fair to say that the German people didnt do these things, it is fair to say that a portion of the blame must lie with them for not doing anything to stop it. Also, Hitler sincerley believed Poland had no right to exist- he beleived it to be Prussia- and therefore living space, taken away from Germany after Versailles.


Second of all, you say they weren't  betrayed by the British. (you provided no evidence to the contrary)  However, the Brits promised to liberate Poland, which is the reason they went to war in the first place. Churchill then ceded to Stalin's demands for eastern europe, taking places such as Lublin, in return for Britain having a 100% hold on Greece.

Thirdly, you say they were war criminals. While you make special effort to separate the Nazis, Hitler and the Germans, you make no such effort to do the same for the Poles. For them it was simply a case of Quid Pro Quo . The Germans were partly responsible for giving Hitler a mandate and not stopping his atrocities (and dont give me that "They couldn't fight the SS!"crap) . Men like Dietrich Bonhoffer tried, because he saw that it was wrong and that it must stop.
All countries have war criminals- no one is perfect.

Lastly I suggest you read the Polish national anthem, called 'Poland lives on as long as we still live.' They are good people, who are tenacious.They have had a damn hard time of it.


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Hi Andrew,


Sorry I haven't replied in a while. Anyway, about parachutes, sorry, what I said is what I heard on some doco, it isn't nice to return the favor though. And I didn't know they tried to help the German pilots in the Battle of Poland. Quite nice of those Poles Smiley Of course they had every right to hate the Germans. They went in to their country, killed lots of people and acted like it's their space to live in. I'm not saying they have no right to hate the Germans. And, Hitler must be even more cuckoo than we all thought, because Poland dated back to, as I said, the Middle Ages. The "Holy Roman Empire", or Teutonic Germany under the leadership of Frederick Barbarossa was expanding rapidly and Poland was sitting right in their path. So they conquered it for 'living space'. So Poland wasn't just something taken from them after Versailles, it was a country way before that.

When I said they weren't betrayed I was talking about when the Battle of Poland came and then Britain declared war on Germany for doing that but were already too late to save Poland. If anything else happened that made Poland 'betrayed' by Britain, then yeah I'm not arguing about that.

Yes, the majority never said anything against Hitler to take him out of power. Why should I seperate the Poles right now? I s'pose after reading your post they're all good Smiley

Everyone has war criminals....yeah, maybe.

Germany:

Adolf Hitler

Herrman Goering

Adolf Eichmann

Heinrich Himmler

Some SS guy, forgot his name, that guy who got killed by Czechs.

Maybe some more.......hmmm

Britain:

Arthur Harris, for flattening cities horribly, destroying the hospital city Wuerzburg that had no arms factories, destroying Dresden, nearly obliterating Hamburg in Operation Gommorah, shameless bombing of any other civilian targets. I hate him Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry Undecided

USA:

Whoever got the USAAF to join in on the Dresden horror, ordering men to machine-gun civilians (well I'm not sure if he/they ordered this, but it happened) Angry Angry

Curtiss LeMay for fire-bombing Japanese bombings.

France:

Um, no one Smiley

Italy:

Benito Mussolini, maybe, I don't know what he did so I'm not quite sure about him.

Japan:

Hideki Tojo for, urm, I don't know, but the things the Jap soldiers did in WW2 were horrific, particularly in China. Those **^%$#$#%^$^s! Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry

Australia:

Well, it looks as if we've stayed clean, but if anyone can say of any Australian war crimes please post!

Russia:

Josef/Joseph Stalin for sending those smart guys to freeze in Siberia, what else, well all I can say is he invaded Finland for some living space (Roll Eyes) and a lot of his soldiers pillaged and raped in Germany and Hungary Angry Angry Angry Angry Johnen should've strafed some of those little pigs when he was in a Nachtjägergeschwader (Night Fighter Squadron) in Hungary Cheesy

Any other countries I've missed out?


The Poles have had a damn hard time of it? True! Invaded twice by Germany, the second time was horrific! Sadly they became part of the darn Eastern Bloc after the war Undecided

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Fighting with sticks in the outback while riding on kangaroos and throwing all kins of creepy and toxic reptiles at themselves, I doubt that we'll hear even a single "ka-boom" from down under.
Methinks we wouldn't give a crap anyways. Wink


Melikes the sound of that! Cheesy





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Reply #38 - Oct 30th, 2005 at 12:29pm

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Britain:

Arthur Harris, for flattening cities horribly, destroying the hospital city Wuerzburg that had no arms factories, destroying Dresden, nearly obliterating Hamburg in Operation Gommorah, shameless bombing of any other civilian targets. I hate him Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry Undecided


I'm afraid that a typical over simplification of what happened. Harris was acting on the directive of Churchill, the war cabinet and the Air Force Board. He had little personal control over the nature of the targets to be attacked, and the fact that the RAF had to bomb at night in days when precision bombing was in its infancy. Harris is an unfairly maligned man who happens to be a convenient scapegoat for those looking for someone to blame...

I seem to remember the Germans also tried to obliterate several British cities (Coventry, Liverpool, Plymouth, London) in 1940 and 1941, so to be fair, they had it coming...
 
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Reply #39 - Oct 30th, 2005 at 3:00pm

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bombings of the cities was mainly done "to break the spirit od the civilian population", on both sides.
it might look barbaric from today's point of view, back then it was considered legitimate, and essentiell for fast conclusion of the war.

the real war crimes in WW II were done on the ground, and not so much at the frontline, but mostly in the occupied territories.

war crimes WERE commited in all wars. i guess some people just loose it.
 

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Reply #40 - Oct 30th, 2005 at 3:03pm

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seem to remember the Germans also tried to obliterate several British cities (Coventry, Liverpool, Plymouth, London) in 1940 and 1941, so to be fair, they had it coming... 
And yet they still couldn't finish off Birmingham. Bloody useless Roll Eyes Grin
 
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