tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post5892320675121803330..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Nazi MegastructuresPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-16421991274249405362019-06-10T03:21:06.516+01:002019-06-10T03:21:06.516+01:00Worst WW 2 show ever.
This is obviously A rewrit...Worst WW 2 show ever. <br /><br />This is obviously A rewriting of the true history of WW 2 with an American twist. Each and every show has failed to present the whole truth. <br />Proof that what I have stated can be easily found with just a little research on the subjects presented.<br /><br />OH, and for those arguing about treatment of prisoners after the war , Please read "Other Losses" by James Bacque. Before you climb onto your high horses and point fingers at others.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-22951479614216014052019-06-03T19:42:58.379+01:002019-06-03T19:42:58.379+01:00I think this series is misnamed, how is the Japane...I think this series is misnamed, how is the Japanese training for the pearl harbor attack a Nazi mega structure ? Maybe it should be call axis mega plans. Even many of the episodes on the Nazi's are not about structure's but more on plans or campaign's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-26006638214983939892014-11-15T22:08:50.316+00:002014-11-15T22:08:50.316+00:00You're doing alright, Asquith. And yes, I real...You're doing alright, Asquith. And yes, I really do listen to dance music and watch Eurovision every year.<br /><br />On mega projects themselves, it's interesting that politicians and managers generally have a thing for them. Our place is splashing out on a huge new sports hall. The City Council has the Smithfield development, and then there's the huge projects - some still unbuilt - at Keele. There's something gagging to be written on this topic.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-36704132833935107832014-11-13T13:40:45.424+00:002014-11-13T13:40:45.424+00:00We can hardly deny the West's treatment of Ger...We can hardly deny the West's treatment of German civilians and POWs postwar was poor and in some cases abusive.<br /><br />You are however inviting a comparison with the care of Germans under Soviet occupation. East Germans may have been better fed than West in the few years immediately postwar. On the other hand, we also know that tens of thousands of East Germans fled to the West rather than endure their forced labour. As for German POWs and civilians (mostly evicted from Eastern Europe) taken to the USSR, the death toll (~30%) speaks for itself.<br /><br />And even that high attrition rate is a significant improvement over the Nazi regime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-4474628802097707532014-11-12T09:36:39.926+00:002014-11-12T09:36:39.926+00:00Of course, I should have pointed out that in the W...Of course, I should have pointed out that in the West sector of Germany, it was USA, GB, France, Canada.<br />The East was the USSR.<br /><br />Again, I cast no judgement, but can only observe that it is said that the East were well fed and in the West, 1000 calories per day was the norm and a hole in the ground with no roof protected men from the elements.<br />Just how did the allies remove all those land mines?Gary Elsbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-18634095884848210492014-11-11T21:17:39.536+00:002014-11-11T21:17:39.536+00:00Totalitarian states know very well the symbolism o...Totalitarian states know very well the symbolism of buildings which is why they are so keen on building, and demolishing them. One thinks of the clerical fascists of the Taliban and Islamic State, who destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan and are trying to efface the Yezidi and Christian cultures from the world. Only last week a group of fash destroyed an Armenian (yes, they're the victims again) church in Syria as part of cultural genocide which is as thoroughgoing as ever even if no one is physically there.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Israeli and Palestinian "historians" can't agree over whose forefathers owned what building or site and did what with it, and sometimes I think none of them care what really happened.<br /><br />This might interest those who are interested in that kind of thing.<br /><br />http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/19875/1/buzludzha-the-abandoned-spaceship-of-bulgaria-photography<br /><br />It achieves the feat of being even worse than that postwar staircase near Birmingham New Street, which is the grimmest construction I've ever seen and makes the old bus station look like Shugborough by comparison.<br /><br />PS-<br />That question by "Unknown" at 10:13 reminds me of something. Don't you actually listen to Eurovision and dance music in your spaare time? People have unexpected recreations.<br /><br />One Saturday a few weeks ago, during an enforced 2-hour wait between one bit of business in Hanley and another, I decided to go to Webberleys for a free read. (They don't complain because they know I come in and buy books often enough). I had a look at Dennis Skinner's autobiography. Who knew that he enjoys a stroll in the park, finding that it helps clear his mind and assemble his thoughts?<br /><br />I do that with cycling, it evidently doesn't work but I try :)asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-80625335928759728092014-11-11T16:42:08.179+00:002014-11-11T16:42:08.179+00:00Indeed. It has been said that the French and Ameri...Indeed. It has been said that the French and Americans had a deliberate policy to wipe out hundreds of thousands of German soldiers through neglect, in order to "punish" Germany. <br /><br />The stats talk for themselves. Speedynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-79017103018199218362014-11-11T13:19:26.655+00:002014-11-11T13:19:26.655+00:00It's the British sector I highlight and was ad...It's the British sector I highlight and was administered by Field Marshall Montgomery, Britain's most senior soldier WW2.<br /><br />I cast no judgement here at all but numbers counted in and numbers counted out along with accommodation and calorific rations is something that should be followed by a simple ? Gary Elsbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-55306329682610501082014-11-11T12:57:29.103+00:002014-11-11T12:57:29.103+00:00Weirdly, one of the flakturms in Vienna has been c...Weirdly, one of the flakturms in Vienna has been converted into an aquarium, having defied various efforts to knock it down (any force that would knock it down would also flatten most of the city). So there's this massive Nazi land-submarine eighteen stories up and another nine down looming over the city and it's FULL OF FISH, and just so weird nobody thinks about it for a moment.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17153530634675543954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-26528515395816173332014-11-11T11:35:25.446+00:002014-11-11T11:35:25.446+00:00Albert Speer got away with murder, literally.
Bu...Albert Speer got away with murder, literally. <br /><br />But to answer Gary's point - yes: the mass murder of German prisoners by the Americans and French is one of WW2's great unexplored war crimes (hundreds of thousands), along with the Italian crimes in Greece and Yugoslavia - thousands of Italian war criminals cases pushed under the carpet when communism "threatened" post-war Italy. The Italian myth of victimhood perseveres to this day while their crimes match anything done by the Germans in Italy. <br /><br />Despite the odd firestorm, the British really did come out of WW2 smelling of roses. They were even behind the German economic miracle, for which the receive little acknowledgement, naturally. <br /><br />Speaking of megastructures..<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_citadels_under_London#Admiralty_Citadel<br />Speedynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-67711819285254502512014-11-11T10:21:11.769+00:002014-11-11T10:21:11.769+00:00At the end of the war, Germany was divided into 4 ...At the end of the war, Germany was divided into 4 sectors.<br />USA, Canada, Great Britain, USSR.<br />(Berlin segmented between the 4).<br /><br />Responsibility for German prisoners welfare was given to each respective occupier.<br /><br />To make things simple, take a look at the British sector.<br />What happened next?Gary Elsbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-73564113909554234002014-11-11T10:13:46.559+00:002014-11-11T10:13:46.559+00:00Don't you ever watch something like Strictly o...Don't you ever watch something like Strictly on Saturday night? Even political obsessives need a bit of nonsense to watch, or are you going to deconstruct this at some point? That said, I can't bring myself to watch X factor and am waiting for the return of Engrenages/ Spiral on a Sat night. I have in fact visited various Nazi sights over the years and I've never felt comfortable with concrete since. Canary Wharf gives me a similar feeling.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04757591304423301884noreply@blogger.com