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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr
Technically brilliant but I find videos like this disturbing...
More than 60,000,000 dead worldwide!
What people often forget is that the Germans suffered horribly.
They were duped and used. In the end Hitler blamed the German people for losing the war.
I see nothing but tragedy.
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Hitler did not carry a rifle in the war. He did not fire artillery or drop any bombs.
He did not manufacture any weapons or operate any gas chambers.
Those things were done by the German people. Yes, under instruction from Hitler but they carried out the orders.
They suffered, almost as much as those who suffered by their hand. In both wars.
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the German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They, it is alleged, not only expect one to know one’s gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.
Speedbird 206: “Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway.”
Ground: “Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven.” The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.
Ground: “Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?”
Speedbird 206: “Stand by, Ground, I’m looking up our gate location now.”
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): “Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?”
Speedbird 206 (coolly): “Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark,… and I didn’t land.”
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a Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich reported overhearing the following:
Lufthansa (in German): “Ground, what is our start clearance time?”
Ground (in English): “If you want an answer you must speak in English.”
Lufthansa (in English): “I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?”
Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): “Because you lost the bloody war.”
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