My father was a member in the Hitlerjugend

Oberon · 01-06-15, 05:41 PM

Bread and Circuses. Quite the reversal of the later comments by Goering about guns and butter...although it's always puzzled me how long it took the German industry to switch into wartime mode. I doubt it would have helped them much more if it had switched earlier, certainly might have increased internal pressures, but the odds might have been a smidge more in Germanys favour when it came to Barbarossa, at least for the first year and a half.

I sometimes look at the HJ knife I have and I ponder its story, who owned it, what happened to them. Pretty sure they were in either the African theatre in 42-43 or the invasion of France in 1940, and they became a British POW, but that's about all I could guess based upon what I know of my great-grandfathers activities in WWII.

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Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Bread and Circuses. Quite the reversal of the later comments by Goering about guns and butter...although it's always puzzled me how long it took the German industry to switch into wartime mode. I doubt it would have helped them much more if it had switched earlier, certainly might have increased internal pressures, but the odds might have been a smidge more in Germanys favour when it came to Barbarossa, at least for the first year and a half. I sometimes look at the HJ knife I have and I ponder its story, who owned it, what happened to them. Pretty sure they were in either the African theatre in 42-43 or the invasion of France in 1940, and they became a British POW, but that's about all I could guess based upon what I know of my great-grandfathers activities in WWII.