1944 The Destruction of Monte Cassino: The German View

Die Deutsche Wochenschau No. 703. February 23, 1944. On the southern Italian front. The activities of the Anglo-American air force have not been able to prevent supplies from getting through. German troops are bringing supplies in for the battle.Even in the greatest difficulties provisions are brought to the troops in the mountains.The supply mule arrives. Anglo-American bombers attack.The bombs fall in the valley.The Abbey of Monte Cassino, which has been here fro hundreds of years. And now after the destruction by the Anglo-American air force.After the air bombardment, this symbol of European culture was subject to heavy artillery fire and reduced to ruins. This what is left. The Abbot of Monte Cassino on his way to Rome.He thanks the German liaison officer.A further of Anglo-American criminal offenses against culture is Casto Gandalfo.Here in the summer residence of the Pope, as with Monte Cassino, the German command had established a safe area for over 15,000 Italian refugees, including women and children. Destruction and mass fatalities in the village of Castel Gandolfi has been the result of the Anglo-American bombing raids.

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[skoblinI]

@Gianni7381 Bernard Freyberg was not Canadian. He was the commander of the New Zealand division.

[IustitiaPax]

@AZsaturn The ethnic nation-state of the 1919 Versailled Poland and of 1945 Potsdam Communist Poland reformed in 1989 is no successor to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Since when is Donald Tusk proclaimed heir to the Polish and Lithuanian thrones? You chauvinists expelled and mass-murdered the children and grandchildren of those Danzig citizens who made a contract with Poland in the 15th century. Eidechsenbund was pro-royalist, but German-speaking in 1466.

[IustitiaPax]

@AZsaturn Wieluń was a defended city with military objects and aerial defence amidst civilians. Poland had little legal qualms about risking her own civilians. The Poles fought a total war against provoked Germany in 1939. This was true in 1921 Polish invasions of Upper Silesia under Korfanty etc. etc. If Wieluń was an equivalent, why was not Soviet occupation of Lwów in 1939 and of Grodno in 1939 sufficient reason for the UK and France to declare war against the USSR? Poland was just instrument

[IustitiaPax]

@AZsaturn Poland had concentration camps already in 1919. Ask for Miejsce Odosobnienia w Berezie Kartuskiej. So because of German 'disdain' towards the Polish greater militaristic territorial aspirations (against Pomerania and Silesia incl Breslau and even Görlitz), Germany should allow itself to be crushed by Poland, France and England in a joint war? You think Polish pride being hurt, justifies provoking a war?

[IustitiaPax]

@AZsaturn Germany on March 23, 1939 had never once 'violated' the Polish border. It was Polish provocation, with Entente support. Poland and Józef Beck and his regime believed in militaristic pan-Polish propaganda after Zaolzie annexation.

[AZsaturn]

Gdańsk was, is and will be a part of Poland so long till Poland rescinds a contract 1466. The Free City was a symptom of the big mercy. Treacherous Danzigers not valued. Do you attend that is criminal every other attitude than toadying? Polish commanders only said that Reich would receive no part of Poland as gift. You overinterpretation. Perhaps I would believe these imaginary massacres of innocent Germans, if you gave other date. In that times, nobody was so much mad to provoke the superpower.

[AZsaturn]

You have a problem with idea of alliance. Attack against allied state is an equivalent of attack against all remaining states of alliance. The massacre in Wieluń was an equivalent of the bombing of the British & French city. September Campain was an equivalent of the declaration of war against Britain & France. The alliance didnt result the boredom, but the provocation by Reich. But Britishers and the French as opposed to Reich, showed the good manners, forestalling the enemy about intentions.

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@IustitiaPax

Hitler peace propose the hanging of all his scoundrels and himself? And the liquidation of death camps? Hes was adult about the mind of the child. Important is what was made by Reich. Already in 1933 was a criminal state. First concentration camps. A fault of Reich was the marketing: Entire disdaining with business of neighbours does not give friends. It provokes neighbours to the treat of precautions. The alliance of Britain, Frances and Poland did not result bores.

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@IustitiaPax

Illogical. The Gustav line ran through Monte Cassino. Who controlled Monte Cassino, had the potential to the rule with the life and a death of every who was round Monte Cassino until the horizon. The geography favoured very much to soldiers of Reich. You do not acknowledge lives of Allies too sufficiently valuable.

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@IustitiaPax

Wieluń and Frampol did not have factories, armies, or the node of railway. Pilots of Luftwaffe simply very were bored . So this justifies?