Seventy years ago today

Its hard, looking back, to imagine how so many people were sucked into following the leadership of such a psychotic buffoon.

Too true - but I wouldn't say it couldn't happen again.

I feel humbled when i think of the sacrifices that the soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians made to preserve the rights and way of life that we have.

AngryCorgi wrote in post #8564947
Its hard, looking back, to imagine how so many people were sucked into following the leadership of such a psychotic buffoon.

The problem was (and this is my belief only) that people have the tendency to do what is easiest in general not always what is best.

It was easier for the German people to side with Hitler in blaming others for their problems than to accept the blame themselves and do something about it.

Unfortunately, we as the human race seem to still have a similar mind set (Kosovo, Kurds in Iraq, Rwanda etc).

Apologies for the slightly off topic comments.

I used to have a German girlfriend (a few years ago) we went to visit her 89 year old granmother. On the mantlepiece was an old photo of a young German soldier - the old lady's brother who was killed during WW2.. It felt strange to see such an image in the context of a photo of a loved one. We normally associate those uniforms as the baddies in old war movies. Through translation I asked about the photo and the old grandmother began talking about the war. To cut a long story short if they didn't fight their family suffered, starved or both. Let's remember all who died - the victims of tyranny, oppression and hatred.