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yoda

yoda

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Drog said:
Dunno about that yoda cos I wasn't there but the old fella certainly was. I guess we'd have developed a resistance movement like the French but the Germans would have made resistance damned difficult if not impossible. Don't forget the French resistance only worked because it was being co-ordinated from here.
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Exactly my point Drog :)
 
Alan

Alan

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I was born in '42 and didn't know my dad for the first few years of my life. It certainly scarred me because even now I can't stand Germans. It's hard for war babies to forget.
 
Drog

Drog

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We haven't had a major war in most of our lifetimes which brought fears of an invasion by peoples of other cultures and threatened our preferred British way of life. I wonder who our kids and their kids will hate?
 
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ABBEY

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Just watched the last episode of Taboo...i think this could be THE best ever thing on BBC !
 
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ABBEY

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Ive just started watching Billions ,seems good so far and with "tara " from SOA in whats not to like.
 
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ABBEY

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Ah ..was that beeb didnt realise. Watched it elsewhere if you know what I mean . Both are the dogs nads.
 
AllRoverAsia

AllRoverAsia

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Drog said:
I've wondered for many years whether or not this country would be better now if the Germans had won WW2. In the early days my father was on Home Guard duty and the general opinion was that if the Germans had launched an airborne invasion we would have lasted about as long as France. We were virtually defenceless whereas the Germans had been preparing for war for years. If that had happened the yanks wouldn't have been able to use this country as a base and would probably never have entered the war in 42. With us at his mercy Hitler rather inexplicably turned his gaze away from us and toward Russia and his army fell victim to the Russioan winter, and the rest as they say is history.

As for telly... I'm eagerly awaiting the imminent return this spring of The Last Kingdom.
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If Germany had won WW2 then I doubt that I would be here to type this.

A simple story. Dad was a radio op in the Navy and joined the BBC after the War. He was then sent to a location near a small and remote country village and met my Mum. I doubt that would have happened if the Krauts had won.

I was born in 1952 and in my youth everyone I knew disliked Germans and it was not until I was in my 30s and travelled extensively abroad for years on business and met many Germans that my views eased but not totally.

The little village cenotaph with Mums family and friends family names is still there Lest We Forget.

They could and would have succeeded in taking the UK if Germany had not gone to an Eastern Front and then compound that error by also then majoring on Stalingrad. They weakened their overall front and totally missread the Russian winter and their own logistical requirements. Plus the admirable resistance of the Russian military and beseiged population.

If invaded the Brits would have resisted.........I just would not have been there to help.

When is The Last Kingdom due? I should be able to obtain it the following day.
 
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Drog

Drog

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It's on now over here. Episode 3 this coming Thursday. We can catch up on BBC iPlayer but I doubt that will be available to you.


btw odds on that you would be here ..... but you'd be someone else!:confused:
 
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