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60th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge

January 5th, 2010 | Add a Comment

We are in the midst of the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge and I would be ashamed of myself if I didn’t post some comments. The Battle of the Bulge is the more common name given to this offensive by us Americans but the official name of the operation was Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhein) by the Germans. This was Hitler’s last chance of the war to “save some face.” I don’t believe anything the Germans could have done at this point would have won the war for them; they had been fighting too long on too many fronts to have the manpower and resources needed to beat the Allies. One of Hitler’s objectives of this operation was to try and split the Allied command and … Read entire article »

Filed under: Army, Battle of the Bulge, European Theater (ETO), Germany

Republishing Nazi Newspapers

December 30th, 2009 | Add a Comment

A while back I read a short article in the Stars and Stripes newspaper about a publisher in Europe that was reprinting Nazi articles in a current magazine. In the article, the publisher said that they just want to educate the current society on the atrocities of yesteryear. The German government and censors apparently went ballistic about these reprints and ordered police to raid newspapers stands to take all unread copies off the street. Obviously, by the title of this blog you know that I have a vast interest in WWII. I also have a interest in History, in general. So I usually look at instances like I mentioned above from a historical perspective. I can understand that the German government doesn’t want to publish old Nazi propaganda, I’m sure that … Read entire article »

Filed under: European Theater (ETO), Germany, National Socialist Party, Nazi, Propaganda

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