Picture of the Day

[nysä]

Two abandoned or destroyed StuG III Ausf. G, claimed by the 1st Belorussian Front in Rogachev District, February 1944. One with the "nose art" was manufactured by Alkett, sometime between late 1943-early 1944. Notice the different cuts on the MG shields, tear-drop shaped for MG 34 and more angular one for MG 42.

[Leopardi]

[FiveStars]

muslim soviet soldier

[VonMudra]

It must've been such a surrealistic experience for some regular German soldiers. Enlisting with pride to serve their fatherland and being hailed as heroes and mighty conquerors during the first years of the war, only to slowly start realising their leader is a madman that is leading the nation into its defeat and that they are actually serving an evil party that is exterminating people by the millions.

Heh, they kinda knew it since the beginning.

Not only knew, but by and large, they supported it.

[nysä]

[Seth_Soldier]

[Ts4EVER]

It must've been such a surrealistic experience for some regular German soldiers. Enlisting with pride to serve their fatherland and being hailed as heroes and mighty conquerors during the first years of the war, only to slowly start realising their leader is a madman that is leading the nation into its defeat and that they are actually serving an evil party that is exterminating people by the millions.

Heh, they kinda knew it since the beginning.

Not only knew, but by and large, they supported it.

Yes. Dont be as stupid as the CoD devs and buy into the whole "clean Wehrmacht" myth.

[Redbadd]

TS4 have you watched the end of empire series on YouTube by any chance? Or the episode with "mad Mitch".

The British army was fighting for the empire even though many soldiers thought they were fighting the good fight, they were protecting the empires interests.
He didn't say the wehrmacht was clean, just that some soldiers might have thought they were doing good.

[Torenico]

Yes the Germans also thought they were fighting for a good cause, and that good cause was the complete elimination of Communism and it's Jewish masters as they like to call them. The idea of "cleaning" Europe from the "Barbaric Slavs and the Jews" was well within the Wehrmacht at the time.


Hard to call it "fighting for the glory of conquest" when you're motivated by an aggressive ideology that is National-Socialism. People should stop romanticizing the Wehrmacht.

[Matthew_Baker]

Oh nice, arguments about Nazis

I would just say that talking in generalities can be dangerous. Make sure you realize that there is far more nuance to a situation than a group being wholly ‘bad’ or ‘good.’ Not that anyone’s making those assumptions, but the reality is that each group is made up of many free thinking individuals who are both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in every aspect of their lives.

@Seth Polish campaign, nice



US Marines advance behind an M4A2 Sherman on Guam in July 1944. Check out the War Photographer taking pictures behind the tank itself.

[|7th|Nighthawk]

@Matthew_Baker: That's an odd looking rear of a Sherman tank. Do all M4A2 have that weird hull shape at the back or is that a special vehicle?

[Matthew_Baker]

It's an addition. I believe it's a custom exhaust made by Seabees so that they could fit 55 gallon drums as improvised stacks for wading across rivers etc...

[Redbadd]

I didnt want to start it but seeing TS4 beeing overly righteous provoked me. Him being the typical German and overreacting.

But are we so corrupt
that we are totally unable to do any good
and inclined to all evil?

You didnt have to be a nazi or a German to do other people harm or be evil. Or to do good.
Opportunity is what makes the difference is most occasions.
First thing after the liberation we Dutch did was raise an army to reclaim Indonesia. Imagine that after being brutalized for 5 years of occupation.
Just watch this and see what the British army was outside the World wars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6OOsoqSKaw&t=708s

Question is aswell when is an individual really thinking free for himself, because he is always formed  in society, upbringing what have you.

[nysä]

Destroyed SU-85. Chyrowa - Dukla Pass

[|7th|Nighthawk]

@Matthew_Baker: Ah cool. Looks even stranger with the barrels on but it makes sense. Thanks!