The Nazis and Beethoven ....ironic even comic !

[gasbanni]

Beethovens 5th adopted by all against Germany ....

People knocking on doors .....blacksmiths and carpenters hammering

Dot dot dot dash ~ morse code for V, V for victory from a German composer.

Really a brilliant coup yet again by Albion

OH THE IRONY OH THE WIT ......the poor goose stepping Germans had nothing on the brits !

 

[transam]

I dunno

Towards the end of the war they had jet fighter planes

ballistic missile tech

plus a little known fact that may have explained hitlers behaviour
He only had one ball

 

[noseall]

Towards the end of the war they had jet fighter planes

ballistic missile tech

They also had a formidable well trained army that brushed aside European nations and shoved Blighty troops back into the sea. Thank the Lord for our geographic location, else we'd have been doomed the same as the others.

 

[transam]

Yes the fact that we were an island saved the day

Even so joe Stalin gave the UK no hope

Hence why he was brown nosing hitler ( fear)

 

[charliegolf]

Thank the Lord for our geographic location*, else we'd have been doomed the same as the others.

*Not forgetting Adolf's well thought out jaunt into Russia...

 

[transam]

*Not forgetting Adolf's well thought out jaunt into Russia...

his biggest mistake

had all of the eastern front forces been in France the war would have probably dragged on ??

 

[Tigercubrider]

It was inspired by a Belgian refugee named (appropriately enough) Victor de Laveleye who, in his program broadcast to the Low Countries on the evening of Jan. 14, 1941, said, “I am proposing to you as a rallying emblem, the letter V because V is the first letter of the words ‘victoire’ [victory] in French.” He went on to add that it was also the first letter of the Flemish and Dutch word for “freedom” [vrijeid], and, of course, “victory” in English, thus making it a multinational symbol of solidarity for the oppressed. De Laveleye then called on the people in the occupied Low Countries to “multiply this emblem” by writing it everywhere so that “the occupier, by seeing this sign, always the same, infinitely repeated, understand that he is surrounded, encircled, by an immense crowd of citizens eagerly awaiting his first moment of weakness, watching for his first failure.”

 

[Ihavenojob]

They also had a formidable well trained army that brushed aside European nations and shoved Blighty troops back into the sea.

Yet still they lost.

 

[noseall]

Yet still they lost.

And just look what it took to defeat them. Extraordinary. Decimated by their battles in the east, they still managed to make a good fist of it defending their withdrawal back to Das Fatherland.

 

[noseall]

Yet still they lost.

Their crushing defeats of countries across Europe and their simply pushing aside our own troops, in the early stages of the war send a shudder to any UK born citizen, whilst being forever thankful for the sanctity of The Channel.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Their crushing defeats of countries across Europe and their simply pushing aside our own troops, in the early stages of the war send a shudder to any UK born citizen, whilst being forever thankful for the sanctity of The Channel.

And the Yanks, and Canadians, Indians, Russians, Polish, Belgians, Czechs, Australian, New Zealanders and anyone else who helped out.

 

[transam]

They also had a formidable well trained army that brushed aside European nations and shoved Blighty troops back into the sea. Thank the Lord for our geographic location, else we'd have been doomed the same as the others.

that was the Austrian contingent

 

[fillyboy]

They also had a formidable well trained army that brushed aside European nations and shoved Blighty troops back into the sea. Thank the Lord for our geographic location, else we'd have been doomed the same as the others.

Against all odds and being hugely outnumbered the RAF sorted the Luftwaffe right out.
I realise about 20% of pilots were from other countries and the most effective was the Polish 303 squadron.

 

[noseall]

Against all odds and being hugely outnumbered the RAF sorted the Luftwaffe right out.

But were somewhat reluctant when our humiliated troops were being slaughtered on the beaches of Dunkirk...?

 

[noseall]

Against all odds and being hugely outnumbered the RAF sorted the Luftwaffe right out.

Yes, amongst all that glory it's almost possible to forget The Blitz ever happened.