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To: elmatador who wrote (52995)	8/1/2009 7:17:47 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217714

LOL. not quite what my father in law said. he served on all fronts for the germans. among others. so did his brothers, one of whom is buried in some battle field under a present day hospital or some such happening. lest you forget, russia was a german ally before hitler did his napoleon maneuver. and rather doubtful w/o their new allied supplied material, in spite of the winter campaign, would have beaten the wehrmacht back. or won anything at all. including stalin's equal ability to sacrifice anyone and anything at any cost all the time, any time. he would have run out of bodies.

To: elmatador who wrote (52995)	8/1/2009 8:26:00 PM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217714

The Russians (and other USSR peoples) broke the Nazis. The delusions that fuel fanatics like Hitler also bring about their downfall - in this case, his conviction of the inferiority of the Slavs. The Germans were certainly great fighters, almost on a par with the Israelis. Count me unimpressed. When we were kids there were lots of weak jokes about Italian fighting prowess. I laughed then, but now I see the Italians' reluctance to risk their lives in a non-defensive war as sensible, even admirable. NZers were good fighters, and a consequence we suffered big losses in WW1 and 2. In my family, 6 NZ great-uncles were killed in WW1. What for? My father worked on radar as a civilian in WW2, and my mother said (he wouldn't speak about it) that he would have been a conscientious objector rather than go to fight. I don't know - it takes a lot of courage to be a conchie.