Posted on Jul 18, 2016
Is this the British soldier who could have killed Adolf Hitler?
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‘If only I had known what he would turn out to be’- A VC hero who held Hitler at gunpoint – and let him go. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/07/14/126133/ Maybe ? The fog of war !
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If Corporal Adolph Hitler had been killed in WWI the rest of twentieth century history would have turned out different SGT John " Mac " McConnell.
However the Treaty of Versailles would still have taken place and Germany would have been burdened so heavily with reparations that the Nazis would have been formed by Himmler, Sepp Dietrich, Ribbentrop or Goebbels.
My paternal grandfather and his brother were British Army lance corporals who fought in the trench warfare of the western front. My grandfather never talked about how he was wounded or what he saw. His brother was killed by German bombs in his home with his wife during the battle of Britain.
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However the Treaty of Versailles would still have taken place and Germany would have been burdened so heavily with reparations that the Nazis would have been formed by Himmler, Sepp Dietrich, Ribbentrop or Goebbels.
My paternal grandfather and his brother were British Army lance corporals who fought in the trench warfare of the western front. My grandfather never talked about how he was wounded or what he saw. His brother was killed by German bombs in his home with his wife during the battle of Britain.
SrA Christopher Wright SP5 Mark Kuzinski LTC Stephen C. COL Mikel J. Burroughs SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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TSgt Frank Shirley - Using all cap's in your writing looks like you are yelling. Is that your intention ?
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TSgt Frank Shirley - I respect your right to share your opinions. Please give us the benefit of the doubt in history-focused discussions. Many of us who love the study of history try to add information to these discussions.
1. I have been studying military history since the 1960s and am very familiar with the rise of national socialism in the German-speaking nations of Austria and Germany in the 1930s after the failures of the Weimar Republic.
2. The Versailles Treaty punished the German speaking peoples and broke up the Ottoman Turkish empire. The war-reparation payments requirements led German to hyper-inflation where a wheelbarrow full of near worthless deutschmarks was required to purchase a loaf of bread. The people of Germany were largely broken in spirit and angry first at their governments for abandoning them and then an the Allies of WWII - especially the French. It was in this environment that national socialism was born to bring back the glory of 1871 when Germany was born....
3. After the beer-hall putsch Hitler rose to prominence in the national socialist movement in large part because of his oratory skills.
4. Once he came to power, the Nazis began the incremental purge of German society beginning with the mentally retarded and those with significant birth defects - involuntary sterilization and or extermination; then they went after homosexuals, the Christian church leaders who didn't embrace Nazism, then they got serious about dealing with Jews, Slavic, and each and every group that didn't meet their bizarre standards.
Corporal Hitler was not the only leader who could have led the Nazis. Joseph Goebbels was also a gifted speaker and coincidentally Goebbels and his wife killed each of their children and then themselves after Hitler and his new bride Eva Braun killed themselves in Berlin in may 1945.
5. Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Sepp Dietrich each were ruthless leaders who could have led Germany down a similar path if Hitler had been killed in WWI.
Luftwaffe leader Herman Goring was not as ruthless; but, he had connections as did foreign minister Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop.
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1. I have been studying military history since the 1960s and am very familiar with the rise of national socialism in the German-speaking nations of Austria and Germany in the 1930s after the failures of the Weimar Republic.
2. The Versailles Treaty punished the German speaking peoples and broke up the Ottoman Turkish empire. The war-reparation payments requirements led German to hyper-inflation where a wheelbarrow full of near worthless deutschmarks was required to purchase a loaf of bread. The people of Germany were largely broken in spirit and angry first at their governments for abandoning them and then an the Allies of WWII - especially the French. It was in this environment that national socialism was born to bring back the glory of 1871 when Germany was born....
3. After the beer-hall putsch Hitler rose to prominence in the national socialist movement in large part because of his oratory skills.
4. Once he came to power, the Nazis began the incremental purge of German society beginning with the mentally retarded and those with significant birth defects - involuntary sterilization and or extermination; then they went after homosexuals, the Christian church leaders who didn't embrace Nazism, then they got serious about dealing with Jews, Slavic, and each and every group that didn't meet their bizarre standards.
Corporal Hitler was not the only leader who could have led the Nazis. Joseph Goebbels was also a gifted speaker and coincidentally Goebbels and his wife killed each of their children and then themselves after Hitler and his new bride Eva Braun killed themselves in Berlin in may 1945.
5. Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Sepp Dietrich each were ruthless leaders who could have led Germany down a similar path if Hitler had been killed in WWI.
Luftwaffe leader Herman Goring was not as ruthless; but, he had connections as did foreign minister Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop.
SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SrA Christopher Wright COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
Maj William W. 'Bill' Price Capt Seid Waddell SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT 1stSgt Eugene Harless SFC William Farrell SSG Leo Bell SSgt Robert Marx SGT Forrest Stewart SGT Robert George SPC (Join to see) CW5 (Join to see) SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell - Lots of resentment. The Versailles treaty was vindicated when Hitler came to Paris and for 4 1/2 years had the last laugh.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr4zJS4eb80
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John, very true..I have a book I bought when I visted the North Carolina in Wilmington, NC in 2006 that showed the raised BBs in a newer configuration. At least the USS Texas was not scrapped.
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