Just some pictures of Nazis

[BeBMan]

There were also Germans fighting for the Brits. Most of them Jewish, some also political opponents who escaped at some point before the war. Don't tell me this isn't taught either

[giblets]

It is in the United States. This is not taught in American schools.

A lot of things never get taught in American schools. Other things are taught at some point and forgotten. Why has the capital of Turkmenistan been suppressed? I want answers.

[Al B. Sure!]

A lot of things never get taught in American schools. Other things are taught at some point and forgotten. Why has the capital of Turkmenistan been suppressed? I want answers.

People here act like things are well-known... you know like the German-Chinese alliance that you said is well-known several months ago?

[BeBMan]

Not everything is well-known, but that many foreign nationals were both forced into or volunteered for service in the SS/Wehrmacht etc is overall rather known, and hardly kept secret.

[DinoDoc]

And the War of 1812 isn't taught in British schools. History is an extremely large subject.

Not even the drain on resources it represented in the ongoing conflict with Napoleon?

[giblets]

People here act like things are well-known... you know like the German-Chinese alliance that you said is well-known several months ago?

Well-known among people with educations is different from well-known in the ghetto you inhabit.

[Hauldren Collider]

I'm not sure why this is such a shock to Al. The Germans impressed locals into service in all of their occupied lands. Who else would they take in African countries?

Also, fighting for the German Army did not make one a Nazi, any more than fighting in Desert Storm made one a Republican. The vast majority of the Wehrmacht were not Nazis.

Until absurdly massive conscription took place, I think it would be fair to say that most were at least a bit sympathetic to Nazism.

[Al B. Sure!]

There were quite a few volunteers. Opposition to British colonialism would do that.

[molly bloom]

Not everything is well-known, but that many foreign nationals were both forced into or volunteered for service in the SS/Wehrmacht etc is overall rather known, and hardly kept secret.

The Dutch recruitment is certainly fairly well-known. I know the Bretons also supplied some volunteers:

[Jon Miller]

There's a classic story about how one of the first group of "German" soldiers captured at D-Day were actually Korean.

They'd been forced to fight for Japan. Then captured by the Russians and forced to fight in the Red Army. Then captured by the Germans and sent West to fight there. That's the story behind the 7th photo Speer posted- the chap looks quite glum, and I can't blame him.

Probably would surrender as soon as he knew he wouldn't be shot?

JM

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Not even the drain on resources it represented in the ongoing conflict with Napoleon?

Nope. Napoleon still got beaten. The 1812 war really wasn't of much significance to Britain in the long term.

[giblets]

What was the long-term significance of the war to the US? I think the words for the national anthem were written then but I can't think of anything else.

[KrazyHorse]

The long term consequence for the US is that Canada is not now part of it.

[giblets]

Would Canada be part of the US if the war had never happened...?

[KrazyHorse]

Probably, imo (quite possibly without Quebec).