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You really need to try harder if you're going to defend a Nazi war criminal.
Your lack of knowledge of world war II is truly frightening. Where do you think the rockets were built? In the black forest by elves?
.This news would surprise the Liberals and Progressive that support and admire the Castroit regime, but it don’t surprise most Cubans. The released of German documents prove without a doubt the hire of Adolf Hitler's Waffen-SS officers and the efforts to hire German paratroopers and technicians.
Certainly not all German soldiers followed this behavior, though the excuse of "just following orders" is rather pathetic, at least some German soldiers could have been unaware or deluded as to the wishes of Hitler?
Of course not "all" German soldiers were War Criminals but if you look at the psychology of the average German soldier you will see that their treatment of people in lands they occupied was barbaric. They considered anyone who wasn't German sub-human. Nazi Propaganda was very effective at dehumanizing people.
They weren't built with slave labor.
although i dont normally agreed with wiggen, he is correct in this case of slave labor.
on the V2, and well as make rifles, and other forms of arms.
Where's the docs to prove it?
docs to prove it?
testimonials has been given many times, of the slave labor of the Reich.
Let's see them, then. So far, nothing has been posted that proves the contention that slaves actually assembled V-2 rockets.
Let's see them, then. So far, nothing has been posted that proves the contention that slaves actually assembled V-2 rockets.
I'm not sure what you are trying to argue against, the use of slave laborers are Peenemunde and other associated facilities, not to mention virtually all war industries of the Reich is extremely well documented.
The system of exploiting slave labor to assemble missiles began in 1943. It expanded dramatically after the August 1943 bombings of Peenemünde by the British Royal Air Force. The widespread destruction led the Nazi leadership and the missile staff to move underground and use forced labor. The chosen site was a mine/fuel depot near the town of Nordhausen in Thüringen. Slave laborers from the Buchenwald concentration camp came to extend the tunnels for an underground V–2 factory called Mittelwerk. The new concentration camp outside the tunnels was code named Dora and was later renamed Mittelbau. More than 60,000 prisoners were interred at Dora. Some of them built 6000 V–2 rockets between August 1943 and April 1945. They experienced squalid housing, starvation diets, and draconian discipline with frequent executions.
Dora and the V–2 - Historical Background
The most important V-2 production sites were the central plants, called Mittelwerk, in the southern Harz Mountains near Nordhausen, where an abandoned gypsum mine provided an underground cavern large enough to house extensive facilities in secrecy. Slave labor from Dora carved out an underground factory in the abandoned mine, which extended a mile into the hillside.
At the end of August 1943, the first skilled prisoners arrived from Buchenwald to form a new subcamp with the undercover name of "Dora". Foreign workers under the supervision of skilled German technicians assumed an increasing burden; at Mittelwerk, ninety percent of the 10,000 laborers were non-Germans. Officials estimate that from 1943 until 1945, 60,000 prisoners worked in these factories. Of these, 20,000 had died from various causes including starvation, fatigue and execution.
Peenemunde - 1943
I'm arguing against the idea that slave labor was used to actually fabricate and assemble V-2 rockets and that slaves were forced to work in Von Bruan's R&D labs.
I don't buy it; doesn't make sense. Say what you want about the Nazis, but stupid they weren't.
The second link discusses the movement of thousands of skilled prisoners who worked under the supervision of German technicians to assemble V2's. I'm not sure how this doesn't make sense to you. There were plenty of machine workers, engineers, etc in German concentration camps and among the occupied peoples they ruled over.
Too many security issues.
Very well reasoned essay. Hopefully this will finally open the eyes of those who do not want to see the true nature of this dictatorship and what it is capable of doing.What Fidel Castro’s Nazi recruits says about the Left
PERDUE: What Fidel Castro's Nazi recruits says about the Left - Washington Times
By Jon B. Perdue
October 16, 2012
Though he appears to have taken a break from his writing, Fidel Castro utilized one of his last “Reflections” columns to commemorate “The 67th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Fascism.” In it, he offered congratulations to the Russian people, saying that, because the Soviets under Stalin had fought so hard to preserve Communism, they were able to “crush the invaders who wished to impose a thousand years of Nazism and holocaust on all humanity.”
The aging dictator has shown confusion in the past when applying the Nazi and holocaust labels. Two years earlier, he outraged many of the typically sympathetic members of the UN Human Rights Council meeting when he declared that the “Fuhrer’s swastika is today Israel’s banner,” adding: “The hatred felt by the state of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they would not hesitate to send the one and a half million men, women and children of that country to the crematoria where millions of Jews of all ages were exterminated by the Nazis.”
Say what you want about the Nazis, but stupid they weren't.
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