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toomany MBZ · #16 04-29-2009, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

I read Churchills WW2 memoirs last year, and will probably read them again this year. Fantastic read.

I've heard that elsewhere also, I'll have to look into it.
Meanwhile, you may want to check out two of the trilogy by William Manchester. I've only read "Alone..." quite good.

EDIT: Mr. Manchester passed away before completing volume three.

Fulcrum525 · #17 04-29-2009, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Firstly if a kid is reading this book I'm impressed!

Secondly Mellenthin called the Russians uneducated, sub human, dumb masses that should be machine gunned. There was no warning on the front of his book!

Just talking about the tactics of the human wave attack

Hatterasguy · #18 04-29-2009, 08:19 PM

The Germans are racist as hell, they just put on a good front. The book I use in German class hates Turks. Its always the Turkish janitor and German engineer or doctor. Their is also a story in the back about how a Turkish kid can't have any chestnuts because they are German chestnuts, and all the kids laugh at him.

So far Hans Von Luck is the only one who wasn't racist at all in his book, he was very open minded. Guderian was pretty good to, I think he was to practical to be racist.

pj67coll · #19 04-29-2009, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

The Germans are racist as hell, they just put on a good front. The book I use in German class hates Turks. Its always the Turkish janitor and German engineer or doctor. Their is also a story in the back about how a Turkish kid can't have any chestnuts because they are German chestnuts, and all the kids laugh at him.

So far Hans Von Luck is the only one who wasn't racist at all in his book, he was very open minded. Guderian was pretty good to, I think he was to practical to be racist.

I think that most folk from that time period were what would be called "racist" by today's standards. Many, especially in the former "western allies" would like to pretend that wasn't so, but as the years go by I believe them less and less.

- Peter.

Hatterasguy · #20 04-29-2009, 09:36 PM

No doubt from that generation; but my German book was written in 2007 and is totaly modern.

I have no problem with it, because I understand where they are coming from. Things were different back than. What I do hate is when historical works are "sanitized" to modern tastes, you lose the flavor and a lot of the meaning.