HMAS Sydney wreck heritage listed

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

FF, you are not in a good position to be invoking the victim card.

I'm not waving the victim card at all here, merely just indicating what usually happens in discussions about WW2 and moreso when the Germans are involved in any sort of way.

It is entirely appropriate to bring up examples of German actions in WW2 in a discussion about WW2, especially in a case like this where one of the topic you raised in your own thread is about the treatment of German POWs by the Allies.

Well, appropriate it may have been, i guess i wasn't expecting to be 'served' a volley broadside with an alleged attrocity that the Nazis had committed.
I was merely, like i said in my earlier post, highlighting or strengthening a point in the article in the OP.
I at the time thought it was 'mild' enough in it's intent.
Obviously that wasn't the case.

[QUOTE]If you don't want to discuss these issues, maybe you should stick to post-1945 topics.

[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Well, appropriate it may have been, i guess i wasn't expecting to be 'served' a volley broadside with an alleged attrocity that the Nazis had committed.

well maybe it was overkill, but it does settle an argument quickly.


I am more worried now about the spread of wikipedia, many people see it as gospel, but just looking up various WW2 subjects over the past day, it is amazing what drivel gets put down as fact.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

well maybe it was overkill, but it does settle an argument quickly.


I am more worried now about the spread of wikipedia, many people see it as gospel, but just looking up various WW2 subjects over the past day, it is amazing what drivel gets put down as fact.

We both live to fight another day

[bookworm_020]

Remember the priority after the war was finished was to get allied troops home as soon as possible. It took quite a while to get them all home. Axis POW's had a lower priority.