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xmgax
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Posted: 8th May 2005 19:53
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Happy VE Day! I hope you all remembered. 3.30 yesterday 60 years ago Hitler comitted suicide, Surrendering, but it was only aired on the radio the next day, to-day 60 years ago.

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BatVink
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Posted: 9th May 2005 00:59
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VE day was the day after because the Germans didn't surrender until then. Hitler refused to surrender, despite being told that his expected 100,000 troops would never reach Berlin. Once he and Himmler had killed themselves, it allowed Germany to surrender he day after.

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1tg46
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Posted: 9th May 2005 01:30
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Never hear of VE day. What is the unabbreviated from of VE?


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flibX0r
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Posted: 9th May 2005 01:33
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Personally I don't care. yes, he was bad and performed genocide, but i don't care about the anneversary of his suicide



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Osiris
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Posted: 9th May 2005 01:38
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I can see why not tho...

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thinkdigital
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Posted: 9th May 2005 01:40
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VE stands for "Victory in Europe"

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 9th May 2005 03:25
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Hurray for the Red Army.

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Ian T
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Posted: 9th May 2005 03:34
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The end of the greatest struggle, and the greatest force of evil, in the history of the world. Good day

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BatVink
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Posted: 9th May 2005 05:08
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It marked the end of 1,000 years of The Reich. Hitler set out to "cleanse" the world, and ended up destroying the 1,000 year old "Holy Empire" that he represented.

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 9th May 2005 06:03
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Right, that's a good one.

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Posted: 9th May 2005 06:07
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Quote: "The end of the greatest struggle, and the greatest force of evil, in the history of the world"


Except for Stalin, who killed anything upto 30 million ppl. The Chinese in the cultural revolution - anything upto 50 million ppl. Holocaust - 6 million jews, 5 million civvies, 1 million children. The Huttoo's of central Africa - 0.5 million. Bosnia/Serbia - 20,000 ppl dead? Iraq - supposedly 300,000 ppl dead (under saddams leadership). How many ppl have died in Africa over the past century?

It would appear that the greatest force of evil is the human being. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Doing nothing is what humans are good at it would seem...
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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 9th May 2005 06:18
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Quote: "Holocaust - 6 million jews"


Gee that was kinda...um..."connected" with Hitler and WW2.

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Chris K
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Posted: 9th May 2005 07:13
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Don't be an idiot. That was WWI



Jeez.... Americans.....

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BatVink
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Posted: 9th May 2005 08:37
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Sorry...The Holocaust was WWII. Auschwitz, Sobibor and Treblinka being the main camps.

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 10th May 2005 01:40
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I think he was joking BatVink...
(I visited one of the camps though. BabiYar in Keiv.)

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Killswitch
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Posted: 13th May 2005 05:42
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VJ Day next.

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 13th May 2005 05:50
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Victory in Japan?

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Osiris
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Posted: 14th May 2005 14:16
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Quote: " VJ Day next."


No it would be, NTJA Day.

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