I actually didn't know Poland fought as a separate army. Huh.
Honestly this was my biggest takeaway, I already knew the Nazis got owned.
Polish Offensive
Soviet Offensive
Wow, being offensive and uncivil makes both of these just as bad as the Nazis. Why didn't they simply debate Hitler on the marketplace of ideas?
See that lower red circle south of Berlin? That's where the "Halbe cauldron" was formed and then squashed, with some 30,000 Hitlerjugend kids and Volkssturm guys shot up in the last days of the war. One of the very few cauldrons actually formed on German soil. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halbe
Today it's just forested backwoods with an Autobahn running through the area. I drove down there last summer, it was beautiful weather, smells of summer in the air.
And then you stop at memorial site and read how farmers even today dig up some bones and how identification of human remains that have been run over by these wide soviet tank tracks is next to impossible. In the last 9 months of the war, as many German soldiers died as in the five years of war before that. They were just getting shot up all the time.
That's what you get when you have fascists running your country. Fuck nazis, and fuck Joe Biden for doing that to Ukraine. Fuck.
In Halbe itself, some of the civilians took pity on very young soldiers ("Kindersoldaten") and allowed them to change out of their uniforms into civilian clothes. In one documented case, an SS man appeared at the door of a cellar intending to shoot a Panzerfaust into a cellar with about forty civilians and young Wehrmacht soldiers in it, only to be shot dead by one of the soldiers.[13]
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always love to read how the nazis were escaping to the amerikkkan forces, almost like they knew that they would be treated with kid gloves :thinking-about-it:
though this was in hungary, my granddad was "drafted" (he was like 14, idk) and told to take one day's worth of sandwiches and report to the school gym.
you know, for the final defense of fascist hungary against liberation.
so he shows up and there's all these kids and then some army man (officer? sergeant? whatever) comes in, looks at them, shakes his head and tells them to just fuck off home and hide.
so he did. and that's how he survived.
yeah it's a bit amazing that fascists still want to emulate hitler, when he managed, in 13 years, to turn the most powerful (debatable, but anyway, they were up there) country in continental europe into the fifth most powerful country IN BERLIN.
what about this impresses them?
i know, i know, it's the mass murder. that's all they got.
Yeah fuck all the Hitler youth and Volkssturm, they participated in war crimes at camps. No sympathy. Glad they're dead. Lol + no re. Bye dead bitch.
Pretty wild that Hitler Youth were sent to die only for their leaders to just say “yeah fuck it” and eat cyanide. Fuck the nazis, but knowing you killed a kid has to do something to your mind, especially if you knew it was either you or him who had to die.
