Sunday, August 25, 2019
10 Fascinating Plot Wrinkles of World War II
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World War II was a tragedy filled mass conflict with numerous strategic mistakes, violations of international law and general military weight-throwing. But amongst the fighting were many bizarre military actions, seemingly outlandish but well documented family connections and twists and turns that are sure to surprise the history buff.
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10. Hitler’s Blood Nephew serves in the US Navy
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8. Japanese Balloons Strike the US Mainland
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I saw a documentary about the weather that mentioned the Japanese fire balloons - the Japanese had discovered high-altitude jet streams that gave the balloons a very short transit time across the pacific.
ReplyDelete4:42 I'm so proud of him!
ReplyDeleteMichigan; the greatest state in the Union.
ReplyDelete30 years on the island, that’s a helluva lot of backpay.
ReplyDeleteThose Japanese bomb balloons killed the Sunday school teacher and the kids during ww2, not years after. The article itself said may 1945. Cmon man
ReplyDeleteSimon Whistler ......that names about as real as that accent lol still by far the most factual well put together videos around ....I bow to the breadth and depth of your knowledge sir
ReplyDeleteCould have included that Edward Milch who was a German Field Marshall and head of aircraft development during the war had a Jewish father, and that Goerring's brother saved scores of Jews.
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Hitler: "every german blooded boy should give their life in service to the fatherland"
ReplyDeleteHitler's nephew joins US navy
Hitler: "krap"
Well we wouldn't expect anything less from World-War era vikings. :)
ReplyDelete“The United States... has a well deserved reputation for taking in refugees...” LOL
ReplyDeleteAs usual, Simeon misses lots of facts. Hiroda actually had a squad of five people, three of whom were killed by Philippino farmers and one who quit. I read his book.
ReplyDelete10:27 Wasn't the Italian Social Republic a Nazi puppet? Also, some minor Axis powers switched sides.
ReplyDeleteToo many damn ads!!
ReplyDeletei'm proud to be Danish (Also Denmark greatly helped the Jewish immigrants doing the 30 years war, by giving them free citizenship)
ReplyDeleteWell earned modern reputation for taking in refugees? Ermericca? :)
ReplyDeleteMy dad was in the Pacific during WWII. Sadly it doesn't surprise me that the US didn't want Jewish refugees back then.
ReplyDeleteFascism was also greatly inspiring to Winston Churchill who declared if he was Italian, he would be a Black Shirt. He also noted Fascism was the most viable option for Europe to fight the rising tide of Communism. It certainly prevented a Communist take over the atrocities which would certainly have followed.
ReplyDeleteThere was also only one European leader who stood up to stop Hitler at the Rhineland which would have prevented war in the West: Mussolini. Who was a vocal critic and warned of Hitler’s war plans from the beginning.
And then the world hit Italy with an embargo which drove it right into Hitler’s arms.
The story of the Danish king declaring that he would wear a yellow star himself is a myth. The rescue of the Danish jews is a more complicated story. The rescue was initiated when a nazi officer tipped of the Resistance of the approaching arrests of the Jews (the reasons for this are unclear). And some Danish fishermen that sailed jews to safety were afterwards accused of getting too well paid. Then a lot of Danes DID go to extreme lengths to help.
ReplyDeleteHitlers nephew was married to an irish women and once lived around the corner from where I live in Upper Stanhope Street in Liverpool (UK) - not sure how true this next part is but the plot of land there (look on google earth) has never been built on again since and many a rumour had it that Hitler had a bombing raid deliberately sent off course from the Liverpool dockyards which were constant targets just to bomb his nephews house. Probably bs but weird all the same.
ReplyDeleteWoop, Woop Denmark!
ReplyDeleteThe Danish people are the most nicest people I have met
ReplyDeleteMackenzie King's decision to not allow the refugees is one of several dark decisions in Canada's checkered past. For what it's worth, the country has since apologized for its unforgivable racism and bigotry to both Japanese Canadians and the Jews of the St. Louis.
ReplyDelete10 was a corpsman not a medic
ReplyDeleteAnother amazing piece. I did know a couple, like Joseph Goebles (sp) being chancellor for a day, but most of it was enlightening. You are very astute my friend.
ReplyDeleteMy father was at Pearl Harbor on 12/07/41 aboard a destroyer, he served in this ship until Dec 1944 when his ship was severely damaged during Typhoon Cobra in the western Pacific. In the 1960s my brother was a Marine guard at the Naval Air Station on Guam. During his tour they found explosive charges placed on many of the Naval and Air Force planes there, none of which exploded. While on evening perimeter patrol they spotted an armed individual running away from some bombers. They pursued him but lost in the brush. It was later learned that the man was a Sergeant in the Japanese Imperial Army. A representative of the Japanese government and the JSDF came to the island to try to talk the Sgt out and turn himself over to the JSDF officer. The Sgt finally came out and report to the Japanese officers, he then turned his rifle over to a Marine NCO. They then joined a Marine detail in dress uniforms, who escorted him to the base hospital for a medical and a new uniform (WW II style). Instead of being treated as an enemy, he was treated as a guest, provided with medical care, a clean, fresh clothes, an uniform and some decent food. When he was finally released from the hospital he was taken to the airport, where he was met by a Japanese military honor guard, where he turned his weapon in and boarded the plane for the flight home. After the end of the war no one was injured or killed by this soldier or could be proven to having been. When he approached the plane he walked between to rows of troops on one side a Marine Honor Guard facing a Japanese Self Defense Force Honor Guard. According to my brother at the time, the Marines (probably under orders) treated him as a dignitary, not an enemy soldier. He finally went home after 20+ years hiding in the brush and hills on Guam, with his honor intact. These stories of lone soldiers, hiding from our military thing the war was still going on always amazed me, just thought that I would share this. - - -//es//A Navy Veteran
ReplyDeleteThat is a nice cupcake.flys about an ocean and lands in my poor mouth.
ReplyDeleteMackenzie king is quoited as saying "one Jew is one Jew to many" for you Canadian SJW's Mackenzie was a liberal!
ReplyDeleteFascinating!
ReplyDeleteNavy has corpsmans, not medics.
ReplyDeleteI too am proud of my family's efforts during ww2.. we may have lost but we'll get them next time.
ReplyDeleteThe segment about Niroo Onoda was a bit simplistic. Even with evidence that the war was over he told Suzuki that he would not surrender except by orders from a superior officer, when Japan heard this they miraculously found his former commander still alive who then flew to the Philipines and personally showed him the ceasefire orders and formally relieved him of his duties. Say what we will about the Japanese army in WW2, you have to admire the dedication to do your duty for 29 years.
ReplyDeleteThe Netherlands couldn't really do much as they were over run by the Germans in no time. This due foolish politics and not being ready in any form to fight. Also the Dutch had no clear escape routes for Jews nor could hold them as the Nazi's, SS and NSB were hunting down any Jew and sending them off to a number of camps. The camps were not known until later in the war when people started to realize that these Jews were not returning home. They were lied to as given a 'holiday'. The resistance did heat up and did try their best to safe as many people as possible, yet you can only do so much with a flat country that is surrounded by water, enemy soldiers and NSB (which is a Dutch SS style police). Not to forget the traitors that called out things to safe their own asses. You can not compare that to what Denmark had. Get your facts straight and stop hating on the Netherlands, this isn't the first time you messed up badly!
ReplyDeleteI live a few blocks from where one of those balloon bombs hit
ReplyDeleteWow, I actually knew all this stuff! And it was actually the German attache to Denmark, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, who warned the Danish Underground the night before a planned round-up of the Jews, allowing them to be smuggled to neutral territory. And it wasn't just the US who refused to take in Jewish refugees. Plenty of other countries set up strict immigration quotas, and there was a lot of quiet anti-Semitism across the globe.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you have heard this before, but you err in saying that Hitler’s nephew joined the Navy and served as a MEDIC. There are no medics in the Navy. The Navy Corpmen serve with both Naval and Marine Corps units. They perform the same duties as Armu Medics, but their rating is listed as CORPSMAN.
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