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2019-01-24 Europe

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Posted by Fred 2019-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Seen this one before. So who are they planning to invade?

Posted by Daffy the Rasher2871 2019-01-24 01:24|| 2019-01-24 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Treaty of .... Aachen?
"I will take 'What Was The capitol of the Carolingian Empire?' for 500$, Alex." Last time Germany and France, or large parts of them, were one kingdom.

Posted by magpie 2019-01-24 02:12|| 2019-01-24 02:12|| Front Page Top

#3 France and Germanys "leadership" to ignore the wishes of the people even more.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-24 03:14|| 2019-01-24 03:14|| Front Page Top

#4 If I were Belgium or the Netherlands I'd be nervous, but with the current state of German military readiness, Luxembourg seems a better bet.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-24 07:19|| 2019-01-24 07:19|| Front Page Top

#5 You know, in 1938 Germany's biggest trading partners were ... France and Poland.
Ghetto logic: If they have stuff you want, go take it from them.

Posted by ed in texas 2019-01-24 08:23|| 2019-01-24 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 ribbentrop molotov pact v2?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-24 11:35|| 2019-01-24 11:35|| Front Page Top

#7 'Friendship treaty' sounds like a school-girl tea party. Let's call it the German-Franco Co-Prosperity Sphere - something with some steel to it! We'll show those Eastern Euro upstarts who is boss.

Posted by SteveS 2019-01-24 11:51|| 2019-01-24 11:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Sea trade will be crucial to our success.

Posted by Capt.-Lt. Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock 2019-01-24 13:37|| 2019-01-24 13:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Took me a minute.

Fregattenkapitän Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (11 December 1911 – 18 April 1986) was a submarine commander in the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was sixth among the top ten successful U-boat commanders during the Battle of the Atlantic against the Allies, in terms of tonnage of merchant ships sunk. He commanded four U-boats, and his most successful tour was commanding the U-96 a Type VIIC U-boat, which gained widespread recognition when one of its patrols was documented and publicized by an accompanying member of a propaganda company Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Lehmann-Willenbrock was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The story of the U-96 was eventually made into a mini-series and film called Das Boot, in which the captain was portrayed by Jürgen Prochnow.

Posted by jvalentour 2019-01-24 14:38|| 2019-01-24 14:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Given conditions in Germany, they'd be hard-pressed to invade Berlin.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-01-24 19:35|| 2019-01-24 19:35|| Front Page Top

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