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2006-06-23 Europe

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-06-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nifty...I've always been interested in the Battle of Norway, and it always gets short shrift in histories of WWII.

Posted by gromky 2006-06-23 06:02|| 2006-06-23 06:02|| Front Page Top

#2 How do we get a copy?????

Posted by ARMYGUY 2006-06-23 08:00|| 2006-06-23 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 I wouldn't necessarily want to sit through the bombastic Goebbels-wannabee narration, but the underlying stock footage would be interesting to see.

Posted by Mike 2006-06-23 08:55|| 2006-06-23 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Geographic note: Sweden was Europe's main source for iron ore which (for geographic reasons) was shipped by rail across the Nordic penisula to the Norwegian port of Narvik.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-06-23 08:56|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-06-23 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Norway later became a source of heavy water for the Nazis. The facility was sabotaged by commandos and the Nazis never did obtain heavy water for nuclear super weapons that they were developing to use in the war against the Allies.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-06-23 09:17|| 2006-06-23 09:17|| Front Page Top

#6 I wouldn't necessarily want to sit through the bombastic Goebbels-wannabee narration,

Had too much Al Gore recently I take it?

Posted by Thomoque Angereque3714 2006-06-23 09:34|| 2006-06-23 09:34|| Front Page Top

#7 heh, I thought this was going to be a joke about Michale Moore or something.

Posted by 2b 2006-06-23 10:48|| 2006-06-23 10:48|| Front Page Top

#8 "Had too much Al Gore recently I take it?"

Why libel the dead? Goebbels was honest about his Naziism.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2006-06-23 13:06|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2006-06-23 13:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Algore = National Socialist?

You can't accuse Al-Gore of Nationalism.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-06-23 13:22|| 2006-06-23 13:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Goebbels would have been the darling of today's MSM--all propaganda, lies, and bullshit.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-06-23 15:29|| 2006-06-23 15:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Couldn't we call Goebbels a National Socialist activist? Sarcasm off

Posted by borgboy 2006-06-23 19:05|| 2006-06-23 19:05|| Front Page Top

#12 I can't remember the exact title, but there is a double-movie set taken from the Soviet WWII archives that is truly amazing. It features the Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle up to Gulf War I, but also has just astounding footage.

Pictures of hills of dead Russians, killed by SS einsatzgruppe, with fuel oil poured over them and set on fire. With Russian military officers coldly contemplating doing the same to the Germans when they caught them.

A disorganized march of 250,000 men down a road, taken from the top of a nearby hill, a giant mass of soldiers.

Footage of the vast expanse of grey emptiness, with columns of smoke off in the far distance, broken by a katusha and artillery barrage that would continue for days.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-23 19:46|| 2006-06-23 19:46|| Front Page Top

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