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This is what 'Atonement' did for Dunkirk in 5 minutes . . .

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Posted on July 22, 2017 at 14:30:55
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This is the way it should be seen not as some sanitized day at the beach.








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In keeping with the history . . ., posted on July 22, 2017 at 22:30:30
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The following video explains the true heroes of Dunkirk were the French Army not the Tommies from Dover. They held off the Germans for days so the Brits could await any form of ship to ferry them away.








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On "order of battle" video showing the losses . . ., posted on July 22, 2017 at 22:34:04
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experienced by both sides. The Germans just couldn't get it together during this ten day period.

Obviously, Nolan's film was made for the "home crowd".








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Why didn't Hitler..., posted on July 23, 2017 at 10:04:32
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...go in for the kill at

 

Because he was a retarded psychopath? , posted on July 23, 2017 at 10:38:30
Nt

 

Watch the videos below and you will see . . . , posted on July 23, 2017 at 12:45:23
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the Germans were spread thin both on the ground and in the air.

 

Uh-OH . . . . , posted on July 24, 2017 at 08:47:19
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The French are pissed
about their minor role in 'Dunkirk'

The French are furious over a new historical movie that, they say, diminishes their country's role in a World War II evacuation.

"Dunkirk," the Christopher Nolan-directed film that hit theaters last week, shows a "scathing rudeness [and] deplorable indifference" toward France for its role in the Dunkirk evacuation of 1940, said a blistering review in the French newspaper Le Monde.

"Where in the film are the 120,000 French soldiers who were also evacuated from Dunkirk?" critic Jacques Mandelbaum wrote. "Where are the 40,000 who sacrificed themselves to defend the city against a superior enemy in weaponry and numbers?"
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For the home crowd -- France does need to make its own version.


 

LOL! , posted on July 24, 2017 at 09:52:26
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...these days, that's the least of their worries.

 

RE: Because he was a retarded psychopath? , posted on July 24, 2017 at 11:18:20
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Sounds familiar

 

Hitler gets a bad rap. He was actually very organized. , posted on July 24, 2017 at 12:53:13
;-)

 

Hitler did give the order to halt, posted on July 24, 2017 at 14:43:03
William L. Shirer book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, claims that Hitler did give the order to halt. Shirer is considered an expert on the subject.

 

RE: Hitler gets a bad rap. He was actually very organized. , posted on July 24, 2017 at 18:45:17
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He played the harmonica and was good with kids and dogs.



'A lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on'. -Mark Twain

 

Yes, he never missed his Butt Injections of Meth., posted on July 24, 2017 at 22:49:12
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You know, to stay sharp...

 

But meth isn't injected into muscle tissue. Maybe that explains his grouchiness. Nt, posted on July 25, 2017 at 15:51:12
Nt

 

Hitler-there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two Coats!..., posted on July 25, 2017 at 17:33:35
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Franz Liebekind: You know, not many people knew it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
Max: Really, I never dreamed that...
Franz Liebekind: That is because that you were taken in by that verdammte Allied propaganda! Such filthy lies! They told lies! But nobody ever said a bad word about Winston Churchill, did they? No! 'Win with Winnie!' Churchill! With his cigars. With his brandy. And his rotten painting, rotten! Hitler - there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two Coats! Churchill. He couldn't even say 'Nazi'. He would say 'Noooo-zeeehz, Nooooooooooooo-zeeehz!' It wasn't Noses! It was Nazis! Churchill!...Let me tell you this! And you're hearing this straight from the horse. Hitler was better looking than Churchill. He was a better dresser than Churchill. He had more hair! He told funnier jokes! And he could dance the pants off of Churchill!...Churchill!














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One could ask the same question of the Allies in 1944, posted on July 25, 2017 at 19:00:35
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By later summer 1944, Allied troops advancing from the beaches of Normandy, and troops advancing up from Italy, through eastern France had effectively outdistanced their support and supply lines. Troops were ordered to stop. Advancing tank divisions were starved of gasoline. All so that that infrastructure and supply lines could be expanded. At the same time, the Germans were in full retreat and had broken ranks. After the war it was determined that if the Allies had made a concerted effort to continue, they could have reached Berlin by December. Instead, the Germans fell back, gaining time to regroup in Holland, and western Germany. By fall German reinforcements started to arrive, and they were able to repel Allied advances through norther Holland. By Winter they were able to launch a full counter attack.

My understanding of Dunkirk is Hitler thought by "giving a sporting chance" the Brits would be more willing to accept a German peace, with King Edward VII reinstalled as a puppet monarch. There was a sizable contingent within UK aristocracy and various political parties who favored a peace with Germany, and quietly agreed with German views regarding specific ethnic groups. The Battle of Britain and the Blitz changed a lot minds and created a stiff resolve to defeat the Hun at all costs.

 

RE: Hitler-there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two Coats!..., posted on July 26, 2017 at 12:46:37
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Hilarious

 

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