Duck and Cover

What's going on in this thread?

The party in my pants, dear boy. THAT'S what's going on.

No were talking about World War 2 on the eastren front and books were reading related to WW2.

The Eastern Front is where the real shit went down, obv

johnnygothisgun wrote:translating some of ciceros letters to atticus

I highly recommend some of Martial's epigrams...quite fun and obscene.

Nicolai wrote:The Eastern Front is where the real shit went down, obv

For real, my main man.

As I said in the Total krieg thread I bought 4 books on my beloved (?) reich.

Die SS - Eine Warnung der Geschichte
Le Soldat Oublié
The Nazies. A warning from history
Das Buch Hitler

Gotten about halfway through the SS book. Lots of photos and interesting trivia about the absurd way the boys in black operated. Good reading.

The second one is a biography(?) about a guy called Guy Sajer who fought in the Wehrmacht from beginning to end.

The Nazies, warning, history. Probably the same old same old, but it was cheap as shit thanks to the Mammoth sale at my local bookstore.

The Hitler book (book four) is about some documents (interrogation transcripts) found in the russian vault o' secrets. The germans were caught at the end of the war and apparantly stalin did not believe the Hitler suicide story. Looking forward to a good read.


...any recommendations? Non fiction only. :kthanksheil:

Superhaze wrote:Gotten about halfway through the SS book. Lots of photos and interesting trivia about the absurd way the boys in black operated. Good reading.

What do you mean by absurd, boys in black how about the boys in peadot or oakleaf is more suitable for the SS.

I mean in the way a few hundred guys with black hats would end up beeing the guys running the place, and the 40,000+ brownshirts beeing useless fucktards. Thats absurd.

Brownshirts, in my view were useless to hitler and his Third Reich they were just arrogant street thugs with a swell guy leader.

Simplistic and wrong. The "arrogant street thugs" were the main reason the NSDAP got as many votes as they did, because of the somewhat brutal way they got people to vote. Röhm on the other hand was gay, yes, but I hardly think that had any impact on his judgement, and he was quite sertainly a well liked leader among quite a large part of the german para-millitairy political movement at the time. His abilities to lead were never questioned, he only showed that he was not as cold a backstabber as Hitler was.

You have only proven one thing, and that is that you are more of a homophobe than 1930s germans. Huzzah!

Discussing this with an idiot is no fun. End of thread.

Ok since your the expert on the SA and everything thats fine i respect that, but im more ofa man that studys the war not the pre war effects that started the fucking shootoff for 7 years or 9 counting Japenese invasion of Mancruia. But still being called on idiot in what you love to read about and study hurts.

That's actually good, well done

Just finished Huxley's Brave New World. Weird.

Reading Karl Ullrich's Like A Cliff in the Ocean

Pretty good book on the 3rd SS Totenkopf Division. Plenty of first hand accounts and whatnot.

I'm surprised there are even people alive from the 3rd panzers that are willing to talk about what they were doing there.

Are these the guys who were at the Third Battle of Kharkov in -43?

Nicolai wrote:Reading Karl Ullrich's Like A Cliff in the Ocean

Pretty good book on the 3rd SS Totenkopf Division. Plenty of first hand accounts and whatnot.

Weird title for a book, but sounds like a good buy, first hand accounts are the best, Just like in the book "Rome 44". I'm currently reading "All the Kasiers Men".

bought massie's DREADNOUGHT a couple of days ago

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