tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29648991.post1121463708760560780..comments2024-03-27T17:08:39.826-05:00Comments on Stuff in the Basement: ResistanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29648991.post-32988616783258763632017-03-02T08:56:05.034-06:002017-03-02T08:56:05.034-06:00Some say the West died at Stalingrad, and all that...Some say the West died at Stalingrad, and all that is left is an end game "token resistance". The East came West.<br /><br />Finland's Mannerheim talked about the "the Eastern front" .<br /><br />http://www.fpp.co.uk/Hitler/docs/Mannerheim/recording_040642_dt.html<br /><br /><br />The West was more concerned with supplying the Soviet Union than it was with supporting its own troops.<br /><br /> the British aircraft industry was turning out fighters and bombers. Why were these modern planes not sent to defend British possessions in Malaya? The answer is that most of them were being flown to Russia to reinforce the Red Army.<br /><br /> Revelations made by Major George Racey Jordan in his book From Major Jordan’s Diaries back in the Forties. It was based on his “experience as a Lend Lease expeditor and liaison officer with the Russians during the war, when [he] served for two crucial years, from May 1942 to June 1944, both at Newark Airport and at the big air base at Great Falls, Montana.” But hideous though these revelations were, they only lifted a little corner of the rug of tight official secrecy.<br /><br />thanks,<br />JerryJerry27https://www.blogger.com/profile/16933077424200560504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29648991.post-12403786411678466672017-02-28T22:14:10.827-06:002017-02-28T22:14:10.827-06:00I don't know if the film makes it clear, but S...I don't know if the film makes it clear, but Sophie, her brother, and their friends were Christians. They acted out of their Christian convictions, as did many of the resistance fighters. I read the story of The White Rose in German, some decades ago. It was very moving! <br />A.L.S.Alidanoreply@blogger.com