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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #6540 on: 23-06-2013, 06:06:40 »
You winz here is a foto of relief activities being undertaken by the IA in 2013 floods in the lower himalaya foothills



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« Reply #6541 on: 23-06-2013, 09:06:46 »
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« Reply #6542 on: 23-06-2013, 10:06:04 »
It's a shame I don't know anything about those insignias. The only ones I know are the Germand and US ones and those not even that well.
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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #6543 on: 23-06-2013, 16:06:07 »

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HMS Illustrious, the only one of the 3 remaining. I'm so glad she will become a museumship in 2014  :D
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« Reply #6544 on: 24-06-2013, 17:06:48 »


1st Royal Saxon Infantry Division (German). France, 1917.

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« Reply #6545 on: 24-06-2013, 20:06:19 »

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Lebanese army soldiers stand while black smoke rises from a burning house that was attacked during clashes that erupted between followers of a radical Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmad al-Assir and Shiite gunmen in Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, June 24, 2013. Lebanon's military forces battling followers of a hard-line Sunni Muslim cleric closed in Monday on the mosque where they are taking cover in the southern coastal city, the national news agency said
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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #6546 on: 24-06-2013, 20:06:38 »

Swiss special police with a rather special version of the K31. For use against ultra-leftisch people, ultra facists and football hooligans
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« Reply #6547 on: 25-06-2013, 00:06:51 »
I admire the swiss their lawsystem and admire their present politics (referenda, strong federalism, etc.), but yet i can't stand the Swiss because of their extreme immoral behaviour before, which they mostly still deny , during and after WWII. Before WWII, i read they stopped allowing German jews to get money from their bankaccounts after requests from the nazis to apply this rule. During WWII, they accepted gladly all the jewgold, knowing the source and giving them weapons instead. The Swiss kept any POW (usually pilots that got off course and were downed by Swiss AA) from Allied or Axis side in concentration camps. And after the war, they would keep vast quantities of Nazigold for themselves, and even worse: when jews who survived the holocaust would come to Switzerland to ask their money back from the accounts, they were frequently denied because the Nazis destroyed their original ID's and the Swiss denied to accept documentation from Extermination/Concentration camps that confirmed their identity. Same happened to sons and daughters of people who died in the holocaust. They can't reach their inheritance because the Swiss refuse, probably just so they can keep the money for themselves, by counting services on the money till it's all gone, if they didn't already take it. Same happened with many safes that were owned by jews. Then i didn't even mention the fact they send so many jews back to Nazi Germany. Yeah Switzerland is nice, but at what moral cost?

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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #6548 on: 25-06-2013, 06:06:35 »
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The Swiss kept any POW (usually pilots that got off course and were downed by Swiss AA) from Allied or Axis side in concentration camps.


They weren't concentration camps, they were internment camps which were like going to a resort hotel (indeed, most internment camps WERE ex-ski lodges and such).  Also, ALL neutral nations in WW2 interned downed pilots, lost personal, etc, as that was and is law of war.  Any member of a nation at war with another nation that drifts into a 3rd nation's borders can be lawfully interned for duration of the war or until a negotiated return is made.  Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Ireland, and Switzerland all interned Allied and Axis forces.

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« Reply #6549 on: 25-06-2013, 07:06:43 »

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Free Syrian Army fighters carry their weapons as they run near the frontline in the al-Asali area of Damascus June 22, 2013. Picture taken June 22, 2013.
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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #6551 on: 25-06-2013, 12:06:54 »
...That's a maximum security prison, not an internment camp. That's Swiss justice for you, he tried to escape so he turned himself from a POW into a criminal.
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« Reply #6552 on: 25-06-2013, 15:06:38 »
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hague05.asp

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A neutral Power which receives on its territory troops belonging to the belligerent armies shall intern them, as far as possible, at a distance from the theatre of war.

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« Reply #6553 on: 25-06-2013, 18:06:18 »
AKA switzerland ftw


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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #6554 on: 26-06-2013, 01:06:34 »
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The Swiss kept any POW (usually pilots that got off course and were downed by Swiss AA) from Allied or Axis side in concentration camps.


They weren't concentration camps, they were internment camps which were like going to a resort hotel (indeed, most internment camps WERE ex-ski lodges and such).  Also, ALL neutral nations in WW2 interned downed pilots, lost personal, etc, as that was and is law of war.  Any member of a nation at war with another nation that drifts into a 3rd nation's borders can be lawfully interned for duration of the war or until a negotiated return is made.  Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Ireland, and Switzerland all interned Allied and Axis forces.
Though the Irish returned most of the Allied prisoners before the end of the war.