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Castle Courtyard => General Discussion / Questions => Topic started by: Templar on September 01, 2010, 03:00:48 AM
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I FOUND SOME PICURES OF THE INVASION OF POLAND WHICH OFFICIALLY STARTED WWII...........(http://)
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When I was in high school back in the 1980's our history teacher liked to bring in people who had been a part of some historical event. One time in my junior year one of my classmates grandfathers came in and gave a talk about the invasion of Poland in 1939. He was then serving as a conscript in the Wehrmacht and recounted the invasion and the contrasts that he noticed. One thing that stood out, where he even shed a few tears, was telling the story of how his division was up on a small hill and they were charged by a Polish cavalry unit that were subsequently cut down in a matter of minutes. He had remembered how noble they had looked, and then within minutes they were all dead - something that apparently haunted him still then. He brought his photo album and I remember after class staying and looking through it - actually missing a good chunk of my next class.
He stayed in Poland until after the invasion of France, and spent most of the rest of the war in France - lucky because many of his family and friends went to the Eastern Front and were subsequently killed by the Soviets.
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IN THE START OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR MANY WEAPONS HAD BEEN GREATLY IMPROVED AND A HUNGARIAN CALVALRY NUMBERING AROUND 10,000 RODE OUT OF TOWN TO THE CHEERS OF THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS.........RACED TO THE FRONT WITH THEIR LANCES AND RIGHT INTO RUSSIAN MACHINE GUNNERS.........NOT ONE HUNGARIAN REACHED THE WIRES WHERE THE GUNNERS WERE.......THEY WERE NOT ALL KILLED BY THE UNIT WAS DESTROYED.......THE THOUGHT WAS THAT THEY COULD REACH THE ENEMY BECAUSE HORSES WERE SO FAST......THEY NEGLECTED TO ESTIMATED HOW MANY MEN COULD BE SHOT BY MACHINE GUNS IN JUST A FEW MINUTES.........HORSES OR NOT ??? ??? ???