Colin’s Comments (group member since Dec 16, 2012)

Colin’s comments from the THE WORLD WAR TWO GROUP group.

That was the Ninth Air Force P-47s, good documentary.

There was a similar argument between Hitler and Speer over the production of night fighters versus flak guns, which was quite amusing.

This is correct, Himmler and Goebbels were both into the occult, and Hitler thought they were "mentally bent in that strange direction" according to SS Obergruppenfuhrer Karl Wolff, just to name one luminary with personal insight.

I knew and interviewed Rochus Misch, he was one of the last 7 people in the bunker who I did manage to interview. Interesting man, controversial.

"Bears hibernate, but the Russian Bear never truly sleeps"

The Germans had women in their industry within Germany proper, in fact Erich Hartman's wife Ursula worked in a factory, that was bombed. Women who had certain skills were placed in critical jobs, such as nurses, seamtress, parachutes, and many worked in the aircraft building industry, although never really knowing what they were building, as each location built specific parts, and then abll the locations would ship the parts to a final assmembly area after Speer took over in 1943. I interviewed one lady who built MG-42 machine guns.

Jimmy Stewart was a great man, and a great interview, but Curtis Lemay was the wildest American interview I ever did next to Greg Boyington. Talk about salty and ireverrant.

Hitler's favorite film was the animated "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves," and he loved musicals and historical films. He did not drink, smoke or eat meat, and if you read some of my books where I interviewed the people who knew him, there are some funny stories about those particulars.

He told Goering to place a bounty on the capture of Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable when it was learned they were in the USAAF, as "Gone With the Wind" was Eva Braun's favorite film, and she wanted to meet Clark Gable. Thus, Luftwaffe pilots knew of the bounty of 100,000 marks for the guy who got either one of them, preferably alive. So much interesting details about Hitler, by for the best bios read the two part by Ian Kershaw.

I interviewed Lemay, Jimmy Doolittle, and Jimmy Stewart, as well as knew Paul Tibbets, among other bomber pilots, and they all loved the B-29.

My friend Kurt Schulze was a Luftwaffe bomber pilot during the Battle of Britain, and later transferred to fighters, and still alive at 95 also. Erich Rudorffer is also still alive.

My book German Anti-Partisan Warfare covers all these countries, from interviews with participants to actual archive SOE research

I grew up watching Combat, Twelve O'Clock High, Rat Patrol, even the lighter side, such as Hogan's Heroes and McHale's Navy.

Geevee wrote: "Feliks wrote: "Sometimes I wonder. For instance, I was in a conversation recently and the topic was gangster films. People could only name ones as far back as 'The Godfather'. Every other title men..."

The U-110 commanded by Fritz-Julius Lemp was the first, the USS Guadalacanal Task Force captured the 2nd, U-505 off West Africa with an updated Enigma 4 rotor, along with the code book. The systems chief PO 2nd class on that boat who set the charges, but failed to go off, was a friend of mine, Hans Goebeler. My other old friend had served on that boat as the XO, Thilo Bode, who was half Jewish, FYI. He later commanded his own Type XI boat.

My friend, former Luftwaffe pilot Kurt Schulze was interviewed by the BBC for the show they did on the Tirpitz Raid, as Kurt almost shot down one of the Lancasters.

My book, "The Star of Africa: The Story of Hans Marseille" is being bounced around as a new WW II film, just FYI. If you have not read his story (complete with interviews I did with Luftwaffe pilots who flew with him), you will find it interesting.

In my book The Star of Africa, I had some insights from German pilots regarding the Italians.

Ironically I interviewed the German general whose forces captured Vonnegut in WW II. he became a fan of his after the war.

To all, one of my publishers, Zenith Press is offering a Kindle special on my book The German Aces Speak on Amazon,for like $2.95 or something, for just one day.

Nimitz, Halsey did the planning for Midway, using naval Intel code breaking, the Purple Code in fact. In reality FDR broke more US and international laws from the Depression through trying to get us into WW II against the Germans, than all the US presidents combined, and got away with it only because of Pearl Harbor. Had we not been attacked, he would have no doubt been impeached.

Howard wrote: "I seem to recall that while we pretty much gave Russian prisoners back eventually without reservation, there was some issue about Polish prisoners or displaced persons. (The Poles flew as squadrons..."

The decision to send all Eastern Europeans back to their countries of origin, especially Soviets, was due to the intellectual bankruptcy and feeble minded President FDR. Stalin made the demand at the Yalta Conference. This was his primary condition to allowing "free elections" in Eastern Europe, which Churchill knew was bullshit, but FDR agreed. Stalin believed that all Soviet POWs were collaborators, thus criminals. He even allowed his own son to die in German captivity, writing him off as such. It was either victory or death for his troops.

The other Eastern Europeans were also requested, especially Czechs and Poles, as they were deemed part of the anti-Communist intellegentsia, and Stalin did not want expatriates causing problems abroad.