05-08-2010, 09:10 AM
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Happy VE Day
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05-08-2010, 09:29 AM
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Just finished watching Band of Brothers again. It really makes you think about how these people lives were changed for those years and how hard it must have been to adjust both during and after the war.
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05-08-2010, 03:24 PM
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the Goebbels' story on the front page at the top was one of the more disturbing things to happen at the end of the war. if you watch the German movie Downfall (where all those "Hitler is mad at" parodies come from) it does an excellent job of portraying those last hours in the German bunkers. watching Goebbels' wife systematically poison each of their 5 young children was disturbing, all because they couldn't handle them growing up outside of the Third Reich
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05-08-2010, 04:30 PM
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I find it interesting that the Daily Mail used a smaller headline font size for V-E Day -- possibly the single biggest news story of the 20th century -- than the Calgary Sun uses for most of the typical, mundane stories they put on the front page.
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05-08-2010, 04:48 PM
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One of the Nine
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarchHare
I find it interesting that the Daily Mail used a smaller headline font size for V-E Day -- possibly the single biggest news story of the 20th century -- than the Calgary Sun uses for most of the typical, mundane stories they put on the front page.
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Lol. Maybe ink was rationed during the war...
But seriously, did you really just find a way to make fun of the Sun in a VE Day thread? 
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05-08-2010, 04:49 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Lets bomb Berlin for old times sake!
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05-08-2010, 05:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarchHare
I find it interesting that the Daily Mail used a smaller headline font size for V-E Day -- possibly the single biggest news story of the 20th century -- than the Calgary Sun uses for most of the typical, mundane stories they put on the front page.
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Yeah, but did Hitler dump his garbage at Glenmore Park? I think not.
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05-08-2010, 11:29 PM
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05-09-2010, 02:11 AM
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I wonder what American-German newspapers had to say about this?
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05-09-2010, 04:14 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PIMking
I wonder what American-German newspapers had to say about this?
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considering by that point the atrocities of the Nazi regime were brought out to light, probably very little. i actually couldn't imagine being a regular German soldier fighting for your country, only to find out exactly what you were fighting for once it was all over. unless you were a part of the SS and knew about the deathcamps, it must have been quite a shock
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