Normandy 1944 and now.

[Beorn]

More can be viewed here.

I still can't help but be overwhelmed by the history of places and what was fought and died for in order to regain freedom in Europe.

Enjoy.

[Liffrea]

Watching Band of Brothers makes you think…….many of those men were younger than we are now in June 44 I can’t even begin to imagine what it felt like to jump out of a plane over Normandy on a dark night or to run down the ramp early morning onto those beaches. Makes me wonder how they coped with the fear, I think a lot of people talk shit about war, my cousin went to Afghanistan a loud mouth chav type, came back mentally and physically scarred. I’ve never seen war, I’m smart enough to hope I never have to, it's not just the death it's taking another man's life.

I have cause to go into the local Legion most weeks and I always stop and exchange a few words with the old blokes sitting down (usually on their own) or at the bar, makes you feel inadequate a bit, a lot, worst I have had is a couple of drunken scraps outside pubs, my old man is 70some of the stories he tells about when he was a lad, queuing up for coal, open fires, cold water taps only, might as well be Victorian times for all I can appreciate it!

Makes me feel sad when you see what the country they fought for, and lost friends for, has become.

[Creeping Death]

I still can't help but be overwhelmed by the history of places and what was fought and died for in order to regain freedom in Europe.

Regain Freedom! This is insane, Britain and France provoked and started the War against Germany, Germany attempted to save Europe from Communism, Europe ends up divided under Soviet/Semitic Communism and American/Semitic Capitalism.

[Beorn]

Britain and France provoked and started the War against Germany

Germany started the war by invading a British ally.

Germany attempted to save Europe from Communism

By replacing it with Nazism.

Europe ends up divided under Soviet/Semitic Communism and American/Semitic Capitalism.

Unfortunate, but at least the British were free. That's all that counted.

[Creeping Death]

Germany started the war by invading a British ally.

Poland was not an Ally of Britain.
Polish International Relations 1921-1939

By replacing it with Nazism.

A successful economic system.

Unfortunate, but at least the British were free. That's all that counted.

Free????
The Nazis in Paris
From 1941 to the end of WWII, French photographer André Zucca shot photos of Paris under German occupation — many as propaganda for the Nazi magazine Signal to show prosperous, happy Parisians under Third Reich rule.
Amazing the truth cannot be hidden.

[The Lawspeaker]

Poland was not an Ally of Britain.
Free????
The Nazis in Paris
From 1941 to the end of WWII, French photographer André Zucca shot photos of Paris under German occupation — many as propaganda for the Nazi magazine Signal to show prosperous, happy Parisians under Third Reich rule.
Amazing the truth cannot be hidden.

Signal.....
You might just as well read Pravda if you want to know more about life in the U.S.S.R.

[Creeping Death]

Signal.....
You might just as well read Pravda if you want to know more about life in the U.S.S.R.

Some were used in Signal most he took as a freelance photographer, it was those photos which showed France in a different light. German soldiers freely walking around Paris without weapons well fed and happy Parisians, what dont speak dont Lie.

[Beorn]

Poland was not an Ally of Britain.

O RLY? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-P...itary_alliance

A successful economic system.

If you were a German, and a particular German at that. No thanks. I'd rather have fought and lost everything than bow down under that oppression.

Amazing the truth cannot be hidden.

(Read before posting): I said, "at least the British were free".

[Creeping Death]

"for mutual assistance in case of military invasion by a third party"

[The Lawspeaker]

"for mutual assistance in case of military invasion by a third party"

Which proved to be Germany. Poland got invaded on September 1, 1939. The British and French responded with an ultimatum and after the deadline ended on, for Britain, 11 o' clock on September 3, 1939 Britain declared war on Germany with France following at 14.30 Paris Time (if I remember correctly).
They didn't declare war for no reason did they ?