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Posted: Jan 08 2012 07:19 pm

If there's two things people love on these forums, it's Hitler discussions and word searches. So I thought to myself, why not combine the two? First to solve the puzzle wins whatever argument everyone is having.

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LOL "Mel Gibson"

Posted: Jan 08 2012 08:05 pm

Here is my final solution:

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@om*d wrote:

Here is my final solution

LOL well played sir.

Posted: Jan 08 2012 08:27 pm

@om*d wins the argument. He is the expert on nazis and anything he says about them in this thread is the correct point of view.

Posted: Jan 08 2012 08:46 pm

here's the low down on on how to spot a Nazi.

Nazis love watermelon, fried chicken and grape drink. Nazis also have no rhythm, are terrible at basketball, bad drivers, they don't speak English very well and love to gamble. Oh yeah, they also all know Kung Fu, are greedy, mostly drunks and all the men are well endowed. In addition, any midget you see is probably a Nazi, as the master race has shrunk in size over the past 65 years. kwatz!

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Alowishus wrote:

You really don't get British humor.

Like Benny Hill? Where's the girls in lingerie running around to funny music?

Does anyone know that a street in Chicago is still named after a famous Italian fascist by the name of Italo Balbo? Back in the early thirties when FDR was on good terms with Mussolini, Balbo, who was in charge of the nascent Italian air force, flew a contingent of planes over to Chicago. The city then named the street at 700 South after him (Balbo Drive). There have been efforts to rename it since WW2, in order to honor a more respectable Italian, such as Garibaldi, but they have all failed for whatever reason.

Odd stuff, but just wanted to add some Italian fascist talk into here. With all the talk about Hitler, Stalin, and what not, there hasn't been enough about Il Duce. Wink

Edit:

Here's a picture of the street sign, some background articles debating the name change that I just found online, and a picture of Balbo reviewing troops (He's on the extreme right, with the pointed goatee):

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-27/news/ct-edit-balbo-20110627_1_wrongs-balbo-drive-fascists

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-30/news/chi-110630iaconis_briefs_1_balbo-drive-austria-cycle-of-violent-crime

http://www.suntimes.com/opinions/letters/6201526-474/dont-rename-balbo-street.html

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/07/06/debate-rages-over-whether-to-rename-balbo-drive/

I just saw the signatories of the petition to rename the street, and my Italian history professor from grad school signed it. Cool.

Posted: Jan 09 2012 12:45 pm

Fighter_McWarrior wrote:

How do you figure? FDR had deployed Naval forces to assist Allied convoys in late 1940, and prior to Pearl Harbor, they were engaging German naval forces. The whole purpose of Lend-Lease was to throw aid behind the Allies. It was obvious where the Administration stood, even if their reasons for it weren't.

I agree that the Holocaust was a non-issue for the Americans, but the takeover of Europe by the Germans wasn't. The US wasn't neutral and was assisting the Allies, even before our part in the war began in earnest.

Of course not, those ford motors nazi workshops were expensive, right? Wink

I know FDR didn't "let" Pearl Harbor happen so he'd have a reason to join the war, nor was he afraid of conflict and forced into war by Pearl Harbor. I just wonder if FDR was using the neutrality acts to bide his time until the economy stopped sucking, while giving out as much technical non-warfare aid as possible (The cash and carry trades came before any of the actual military action, after all).

Assisting the British on "patrols" with covert marine warfare has no comparison to the invasion of Omaha Beach; My original post was pointing to this difference. No one knew we would get involved on that level until Pearl Harbor and Germany's declaration of war.

As a side note, I didn't want to insult you, I'm more than happy to discuss things. I just thought your original quoted post was funny given your name and the content.

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Posted: Jan 09 2012 01:17 pm

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I know FDR didn't "let" Pearl Harbor happen so he'd have a reason to join the war, nor was he afraid of conflict and forced into war by Pearl Harbor. I just wonder if FDR was using the neutrality acts to bide his time until the economy stopped sucking, while giving out as much technical non-warfare aid as possible (The cash and carry trades came before any of the actual military action, after all).

That was more the point I was trying to make. I do believe that FDR wanted to get into the war long before he had an excuse to, and was building up to do that. So saying that the US was hands off until Pearl Harbor, as Alowishus implied, is less than accurate.

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Odd stuff, but just wanted to add some Italian fascist talk into here. With all the talk about Hitler, Stalin, and what not, there hasn't been enough about Il Duce.

The Itallian Fascist Movement is a fascinating thing.