@Beneficiis naaah, not really. So much people do not know. Anything gets blamed on the germans, and thats just as wrong as it can get. The Picture is a very balanced one, and to understand relations its not enough to demonize. But thats what happens always.
If one looks at British history, it has been a history of conquest and disdain-racism for the people they conquer/occupy. Egypt, Africa, the Middle East, India, South Pacific. The Germans did not behave this way in Africa or the Middle East, and the people there notice. Even though it's a movie, watching Lawrence of Arabia does a good job of showing where the Anglo/French mindset was. Hell, the Brits even turned on the Poles after WWII, and wanted them to all "go home", after they had given Poland to Stalin.
The British did show much compaction to Egyptians, but the Germans made out of Poland hunting ground for people, the massacre was a reprisal for 5th column attack in city of Bydgoszcz. My grandfather was a polish POW in Germany and the farmers family for which he worked was telling him of alleged polish atrocities on Germans. It was all propaganda. He got this men’s (he was local NASDP official) two teenage son from American POW after the end of the war. They were writing him letters for 40 years. The German twas old my Grandfather that he regretted being Nazi and never wanted to go into politics again. He learned his lessen. BTW this German pilot makes fun of the Pole, he feels superior but only because the Pole was not a Russian and he was not shot down over Stalingrad.
I knew a British veteran 50 years ago, who was a radio operator with the eighth army and served in Egypt. He said the Egyptians were definitely pro-German and given the behaviour of some of the soldiers you can understand why. Nevertheless, Egypt was better after they left than in before they came, although I don't think that would be too difficult. A Zionist who visited around 1900 wrote what they were doing in Egypt was amazing and it would be interesting to go back in 50 years and see the result. He also mentioned Shepherd's hotel in Cairo and that was out of bounds to British soldiers for the exclusive use of their officers. I'm curious to know if the German army reserved hotels in places they were stationed for officers only.
I am not surprised the Polish Major, how Luftwaffe (especially pilots 87_ massacring civilians in Poland, bombing trains with refugees and shooting at children makes them ordinary murderers and not knights of the skies. Let there enjoying that has been so gently treated.
@Mactrip100 "Who sows the wind, collects the storm" : Wieluń, Kalisz, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Athen, Belgrade, Coventry, London, Barbarossa, enough? And so the Germans are lucky that no nuclear bombs were dropped on Berlin. The civilian population always suffers the most in "modern" wars because there are no such means of defense as the army.
In India the Congress Party refused to go to war, therefore around 100'000 were massacred by the British in return - nothing special really, daily routine in the Empire to this day !
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I have a lot of respect for this man (as a man) as he's been through a lot in his life,especially during the war, but...Bloody sunday was a bringing down of a German minority military rebel in city of Bydgoszcz on 3-4rd of Sept 1939 so it clearly took place after German 3rd Reich attacked Poland. If you think about it the war was already going on and the end Poles were only defending themselves from raging German minority supporting Nazi troops marching towards Bydgoszcz. I'm sure that every other country in the world being invaded would have done exactly the same.Unfortunately Goebbels used it for Nazi propaganda as if Poles were killing Germans before war started. He must have been one of those who believed it. By the way how can you justify Blitzkrieg with that anyway? I might be wrong,but that Stuka pilot that most people here sympathise with probably took dozens of innocent lifes during the war so who's good and who's bad here? Besides, it was Germans who invaded Europe, killed millions of people, established concentration camps,did the experiments on people etc etc ,isn't that right Mr innocent Stuka Pilot?:? Not saying anything but people often forget about the basics of WW2
Truly, it wasn't that uncommon in middle ages to use population as human shields. Especially more so in early middle ages. Said battle took place when Poland was still largely pagan. Poland was recognised as a kingdom by Holy Roman emperor - it is true. But it wasn't done out of some good will - after Poland became a christian nation, emperor was getting under pressure from both Saxon nobility and Pope to recognise the state. Either way - I don't try to play "evil Germans" card here either...
Everybody know, thats few nazi killers was executed by polish Armia Krajowa special Squad. That was judgement of underground Court. The SS monsters that killed 1000's polish, jewish, and other nations citizens of Poland.
My father (Sherman tank gunner) once said to me that he would happily share a beer with an ordinary German Wehrmacht soldier, even the tank crew that destroyed his tank and killed half his crew, but that he wouldn't knowingly share a room with a member of the SS. This gentleman does seem somewhat unreconstructed in his admiration of Hitler. That is at least honest, even if chronically misguided. I can forgive him for that whilst at the same time violently disagreeing with the general view of Hitler and the Nazis he seems to be trying to present, which is fundamentally a lie. What is it Goebbels said "A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth "...or something like that.
@@leszekmusialowski6527 This pilot wasn’t in a lazaret. He was in France, the Battle of Britain, the Mediterranean and Africa. Maybe he hadn’t time to go to Poland since it only took the Germans four weeks to win that one.
