What image or event of 2nd World War has moved you the most?
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Kurt Steiner
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What image or event of 2nd World War has moved you the most?
For me this picture of the once proud Nuremberg Rally Grounds ... once the scene of millions now but a mere shell of it's former glory. A very haunting scene of the Third Reich.
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ChristopherPerrien
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I always like the Swastika getting blown off the REichstag as symbolic of the end of the European WWII, and the Iwo Jima flag raising as symbolic of the end of the Pacific WWII.
The prettiest pictures are the bomb blasts at Bimini atoll after the war, alot of noble ships got sunk there. and nobody got killed.
The prettiest pictures are the bomb blasts at Bimini atoll after the war, alot of noble ships got sunk there. and nobody got killed.
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Matthew Jordan
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pictures such as this
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/ ... s/wwii.jpg
make you saddened how wide and great the destruction of europe was, and imagine all the dead and homeless people and how they survived over 5 years of it is truly amazing
cant imagine how millions of people died in europe all due to the rising of one man, and how he coaxed the german people into following him into such depths of death and descruction, of which the world had never seen
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/ ... s/wwii.jpg
make you saddened how wide and great the destruction of europe was, and imagine all the dead and homeless people and how they survived over 5 years of it is truly amazing
cant imagine how millions of people died in europe all due to the rising of one man, and how he coaxed the german people into following him into such depths of death and descruction, of which the world had never seen
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See http://www.thirdreichruins.com/ at the very first page of this spectacular site (thanks again, Geoff).
It was not the Reichstag but the Zeppelinfeld Tribune in Nuremberg.I always like the Swastika getting blown off the REichstag as symbolic of the end of the European WWII
See http://www.thirdreichruins.com/ at the very first page of this spectacular site (thanks again, Geoff).
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Back in 1994 the BBC showed a documentary on the battle for Normandy.In this film was a newsreel of destroyed German vehicles in the Falaise pocket.The cameraman zoomed in on one smouldering truck onto the badly burned remains of the driver.Of all the pictures from the war,this one really made me wonder who this poor guy was,and how he came to meet this grizzly fate.This is not the glorious dead that some people talk about.Rest in peace mate,whoever you are.
Two stories about WW2 have moved me the most.
One story I read in the book Enemy at the Gates: two Germans grabbed a baby by it's two legs and tore it apart in sight of it's mother. The Russian who witnessed it from a distance said the screams of the mother haunted him for the rest of his life. He turned sniper and killed hundreds of Germans, whom he termed "sticks" throughout the war. By the way I am referring to the history book, not the fictional movie.
Now for the second story: where I grew up, in the island of Malta, I remember old timers telling me about the blitz there. They remember the Italian pilots deliberately jettisoning their bombs in the sea in order not to hurt anybody, while the German pilots were so thorough that after bombing runs they would return and machine gun livestock and poultry.
Unbelievable, the things humans can do to each other
One story I read in the book Enemy at the Gates: two Germans grabbed a baby by it's two legs and tore it apart in sight of it's mother. The Russian who witnessed it from a distance said the screams of the mother haunted him for the rest of his life. He turned sniper and killed hundreds of Germans, whom he termed "sticks" throughout the war. By the way I am referring to the history book, not the fictional movie.
Now for the second story: where I grew up, in the island of Malta, I remember old timers telling me about the blitz there. They remember the Italian pilots deliberately jettisoning their bombs in the sea in order not to hurt anybody, while the German pilots were so thorough that after bombing runs they would return and machine gun livestock and poultry.
Unbelievable, the things humans can do to each other
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I was in Bayeux Mil Cemetery looking for any 1st Royal Tank Regiment graves and found one grave, on the end of a row. It was the grave of a 14 year old boy who had "lied about his age" to become a cabin boy on a ship that got hit off the D Day British beaches. Such a very short life and a violent death.
The second was when visiting Belsen, in the museum there is a lovely photo of a 15 year old girl who was in hospital after being liberated. A picture of sheer happiness. Just after the photo was taken she died, her heart could not take the excitement.
The second was when visiting Belsen, in the museum there is a lovely photo of a 15 year old girl who was in hospital after being liberated. A picture of sheer happiness. Just after the photo was taken she died, her heart could not take the excitement.
