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7 hours ago, AUinHsv said:

Yeah - doing any new construction in German cities still involves a lot of risk from 80 year old bombs underground

Shit, Verdun is still killing people a hundred years later

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There's a movie about the hit on Reinhard Heydrich that I need to see.   The Man With the Iron Heart.

For those that dont know the name, he was responsible for the Einsatzgruppen on the eastern front.  Arguably the most heinous individual in Hitler's inner circle.  

Czech and Slovak commandos took him out in 1942.   The reprisals by the Germans killed hundreds if not thousands.  

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1 hour ago, Macanudo said:

The reprisals by the Germans killed hundreds if not thousands.  

Yeah, the Germans were PISSED at his assassination.  They burned and/or leveled entire villages.  I've read that the total number of deaths in connection with the reprisals exceeded 1,300, and included numerous women and children.  

Fucking Nazis . . .

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22 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

Yeah, the Germans were PISSED at his assassination.  They burned and/or leveled entire villages.  I've read that the total number of deaths in connection with the reprisals exceeded 1,300, and included numerous women and children.  

Fucking Nazis . . .

500 for sure.   Some think it could have been 5,000.   Hitler initially suggested killing 10,000.  

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2 hours ago, Macanudo said:

There's a movie about the hit on Reinhard Heydrich that I need to see.   The Man With the Iron Heart.

For those that dont know the name, he was responsible for the Einsatzgruppen on the eastern front.  Arguably the most heinous individual in Hitler's inner circle.  

Czech and Slovak commandos took him out in 1942.   The reprisals by the Germans killed hundreds if not thousands.  

There's also this. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4190530/

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Can't get enough of "We have ways of making you talk" WWII podcast.  Two British guys.  One is a historian and the other a comedian that happens to know his stuff.  They turn out a ton of content, do long series formats and keep each episode close to an hour.  

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On 7/9/2025 at 12:19 AM, AUinHsv said:

Yeah - doing any new construction in German cities still involves a lot of risk from 80 year old bombs underground

Regrettably this is still happening in The Solomon Islands as well as other South Pacific locales. Neither the US nor Japan seem real interested in helping clean up the mess left behind so people continue to die each year from unexploded ordinance.

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44 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Visited the WWII museum in New Orleans recently. Pretty pretty good. 

Some of my professors work and teach classes from the museum. Really, really smart men and women that cover every imaginable aspect of the war and its aftermath. I do not like sitting in a traditional classroom, but I would make an exception for Rob Citino. Dr. Citino’s lectures are fantastic. 

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