Which Theater of Operations Would You Want To Fight In? (WW2)

[Kaiser of Arabia]

So wrong? Why is it wrong that I wish to die fighting for my Fatherland?
I know I would die, but I would like to be in command of part of the forces of the fatherland, the most elite and battle-hardened force to see a battlefield in the 20th century, and maybe even win a knights cross (I am very brave, because I do not fear death, nor the act of dying). And who knows, maybe I'd be one of the lucky 92,000 survivors (lucky isn't a good word, more like, unlucky) but still, it would be a glorious death for me. And the fact that I wouldn't be penalized for taking no prisoners, it fits me well.

[Byzantine Prince]

Hehe, we have a couple of Nazi's among us. You're not fooling anyone Panzer.

[Longshanks]

So wrong? Why is it wrong that I wish to die fighting for my Fatherland?
I know I would die, but I would be in command of part of the force that kills well over a million russian soldiers, if you can call them that, and maybe even win a knights cross (I am very brave, because I do not fear death, nor the act of dying). And who knows, maybe I'd be one of the lucky 92,000 survivors (lucky isn't a good word, more like, unlucky) but still, it would be a glorious death for me. And the fact that I wouldn't be penalized for taking no prisoners, it fits me well.

That's a load of rubbish. No one that has ever been to war thinks dying is glorious. Those who face death, fear it. Abd no one knows how they will react in combat until they've actually been there and done that. I wouldn't count on that "Knight's Cross."

[Byzantine Prince]

It's not about the fear of battle. It's the fact that people require a good bullet to the head that's scary. You are REQUIRED to commit mass murder. That's why it's as herendous as many poets and philosophers say.

[ah_dut]

That's a load of rubbish. No one that has ever been to war thinks dying is glorious. Those who face death, fear it. Abd no one knows how they will react in combat until they've actually been there and done that. I wouldn't count on that "Knight's Cross."

Some people are just insane, or at least abnormal. Kapo might just be one of them. I regard it as an abnormabiltiy to be able to kill somebody, even if your cause is just, I jsut can;t see it happening to me

I know where I wouldn't want to fight....where my great great grandad fought/lived, in China against the Japanese, luckily he was never caught but stil....it sounds like the worst place to fight, even compared to the Eastern euro front

[Kaiser of Arabia]

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[PanzerJaeger]

LoL Cap, your asking for trouble.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Just responding to thier accusations of my crazyness ;)
That proves Im CRAAAZY! (enough to sing Uber Alles in Amerika)

[Gregoshi]

I believe PJ asked that politics be kept out of this discussion. Let's keep it that way please.


Thank you for your future cooperation.

[Longshanks]

Just responding to thier accusations of my crazyness ;)
That proves Im CRAAAZY! (enough to sing Uber Alles in Amerika)

I don't think you are crazy, I just think if you repeated that dying gloriously nonsense to any veteran, regardless of nationality or era, he'd laugh in your face.

[Drag0nUL]

Some people are just insane, or at least abnormal. Kapo might just be one of them. I regard it as an abnormabiltiy to be able to kill somebody, even if your cause is just, I jsut can;t see it happening to me

I think you are wrong. Most people went to war pushed by the propaganda or a strong national feeling and without having knowledge of what was really going on.Once on the front line, ethic and justness of your cause was out of question: it was kill or be killed.
And as a side note about how little the soldiers knew what was waiting for them. I am Romanian and my grandmother is very fond of Italians(her grandfather was Italian). She often told me that ,as a child during the war, she would go to the train station and watch trains with italian soldiers on route to the Eastern front.They were always merry, singing songs, giving sweets to the children etc.

[English assassin]

Well if it makes you feel better PJ if I had to serve in an armoured unit in north Africa it had better be German.

Warning, Pomposity follows

Not to be funny or anything, but as well as upsetting the usual suspects (viz the Scots Irish and welsh) calling the Imperial forces in North Africa English runs the risk of upsetting Ozzies, Kiwis, South Africans and Indians, all of whom had very substantial and (especially in the case of the Ozzies and Kiwis) very formidable forces in the 8th Army.

One of the reasons El Alamein is historically significant is that it was the last major battle won by a British Imperial army fighting entirely without outside assistance. (As a historian once put it, allowing his emotions to run away with him you suspect, "The British Commonwealth of nations, fighting its last great battle, in a just cause.") And so an end to a significant period in history, whatever you feel about the Empire.

[ah_dut]

I think you are wrong. Most people went to war pushed by the propaganda or a strong national feeling and without having knowledge of what was really going on.Once on the front line, ethic and justness of your cause was out of question: it was kill or be killed.
And as a side note about how little the soldiers knew what was waiting for them. I am Romanian and my grandmother is very fond of Italians(her grandfather was Italian). She often told me that ,as a child during the war, she would go to the train station and watch trains with italian soldiers on route to the Eastern front.They were always merry, singing songs, giving sweets to the children etc.

I don't know, never been in a war, and hopefully am never going to be in one. I can't see how I could be persuaded but then I jsut have to look at my school CCF :sigh:

[PanzerJaeger]

Not to be funny or anything, but as well as upsetting the usual suspects (viz the Scots Irish and welsh) calling the Imperial forces in North Africa English runs the risk of upsetting Ozzies, Kiwis, South Africans and Indians, all of whom had very substantial and (especially in the case of the Ozzies and Kiwis) very formidable forces in the 8th Army.

Sorry about that.. i did mean those serving in the British army.