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1940 HMS Achilles returns Home

British Newsreel. March 21, 1940.HMNZS Achilles was a Leander class cruiser which served with the Royal New Zealand Navy in World War II. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River P...  
 
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EasyCompanyAirborne (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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gunnermac. You have come up with a list of groups of people being killed. This happens in war. I could also go on about the rape of Dutch women by the allies "liberating" Arnhem.

The orders to "murder" British Commandos is in response to the attrocities they were intending to commit. They were told to take no prisoners, including civilians.

Anyway, I think you are brainwashed and ignorant. I have spoken to many people who lived under the Nazis and support what I say.
gunnermac70 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Are you taking the piss? Well now that you're outed yourself as a racist, holocaust denying Nazi appologist you clearly have no crediblity.

Obviously you are the sort of scum we fought the second world war to be rid of.
Fuck off and die.
gunnermac70 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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One example of Nazi "honour" - Oradour surGlane:
I battalion of the 4th Waffen-SS ordered all the townspeople to assemble in the village square. All the women and children were then taken to and locked in the church while the village itself was looted. Meanwhile, the men were led to six barns and sheds where machine-gun nests were already in place.

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gunnermac70 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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The soldiers began shooting at them, aiming for their legs so that they would die more slowly. Once the victims were no longer able to move, the soldiers covered their bodies with fuel and set the barns on fire. The soldiers then proceeded to the church and put an incendiary device in place there. After it was ignited, women and children tried to flee from the doors and windows of the church but were met with machine-gun fire.

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gunnermac70 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Two hundred forty-seven women and two hundred and five children died in the carnage. That night, the remainder of the village was razed.

One example of common-place Nazi practice of slaughtering un-armed civilians in direct contradition of both the agreed artciles of war and the Geneva conventions.

Clearly, you have never had any association with any military apart from your playstation.
EasyCompanyAirborne (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Yes. We know about Oradour surGlane. As you said 247 people will killed. The English killed far more in Dresden. The village in France was targeted due to attrocities carried out by the Marquis. All sides had examples of bad deeds like this. The thing is that the Germans (nazis you call them) were honorable in the way they treated occupied countries - more so than the English.
gunnermac70 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Name a single occasion where Allied forces massacred un-armed civilians - or even surrendered Nazi military personnel.

And while you're at it, please enlighten me as to the German honour displayed at Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Ravensbruck, Treblenka, Sobibor...
EasyCompanyAirborne (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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gunnermac. OK. Lets compare directly. I know people who lived in Arnhem. Right throughout the German occupation, the Dutch families there were very well treated by the Germans. They Germans even walked on the pathways, careful not to trample over flowerbeds etc. When the English and allies came, they did horrible things to the Dutch. The raped many young girls, something that was never tolerated by the Germans. Anyway this is all off topic.
Pheonixfromtheshale (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Gunnermac70: regarding Easycompany....ignore him, he's clearly a nutjob who enjoys stirring shit up with people. If you go to any video on here depicting Allied Commonwealth forces in WWII you'll find his lies and revisionist rantings on there. Ask him to back up any of his laughable delusions and he can't! because he knows it's complete made-up fantasy in his own head.
I think easy is either a 12 yr old with too much time on his hands, or someone with a few mental issues going on.
gunnermac70 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Of course you are right, I've just too much time on my hands on occasion!

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