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Valmy

#80460
May 14, 2021, 03:23:56 PM
Quote from: Threviel on May 14, 2021, 03:21:12 PM
He was also an ardent nazi and as far as I know he was just a soldier and he did not do anything especially evil or horrible, he was just a good panzer leader.

Just a soldier in the SS. Which it seems he joined in 1936. No reason to think his hands got dirty.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

The Larch

#80461
May 14, 2021, 03:24:49 PM
I know about the guy because Wittmann was the nick over at P'dox of one of the members of the Spanish community.  :lol:

The Brain

#80462
May 14, 2021, 03:38:34 PM
I have two words: Bobby. Woll.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

celedhring

#80463
May 14, 2021, 03:45:26 PM
Quote from: The Larch on May 14, 2021, 03:24:49 PM
I know about the guy because Wittmann was the nick over at P'dox of one of the members of the Spanish community.  :lol:

Same.  :P

He's one of the mods of the Spanish forums.

DGuller

#80464
May 14, 2021, 03:47:10 PM
I know of him because there used to be a medal named after him in World of Tanks.

Syt

#80465
May 14, 2021, 03:49:14 PM
Quote from: Threviel on May 14, 2021, 03:21:12 PM
He was a very successful panzer leader, including the battle at Villers-Bocage where he ambushed and destroyed a lot of allied vehicles with his Tiger. He was later killed in the fighting in Normandie and is buried in the main German graveyard there.

He was also an ardent nazi and as far as I know he was just a soldier and he did not do anything especially evil or horrible, he was just a good panzer leader.

Today he is worshipped by the panzer-weaboos and assorted nazis and military fanboys as a god of the divine German army.

Yes, he and Joachim Peiper are the "cool" tank commanders of WW2 the Wehraboos like (though with Peiper it seems more people anow remember his and his unit's involvement in various atrocities). You will come across their units/combat encounters in a number of wargames.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

DGuller

#80466
May 14, 2021, 03:51:34 PM
Wasn't Peiper infamous for murdering POWs and slaughtering a couple of Belgian villages along the way?  He was kind of murdered for it in the seventies, so it's not exactly a recent discovery.

Syt

#80467
May 14, 2021, 03:52:42 PM
Quote from: DGuller on May 14, 2021, 03:51:34 PM
Wasn't Peiper infamous for murdering POWs and slaughtering a couple of Belgian villages along the way?  He was kind of murdered for it in the seventies, so it's not exactly a recent discovery.

He still has his fanbois. Or rather "I'm just interested in the combat history" fans.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Valmy

#80468
May 14, 2021, 03:53:53 PM
Quote from: Syt on May 14, 2021, 03:49:14 PM
Quote from: Threviel on May 14, 2021, 03:21:12 PM
He was a very successful panzer leader, including the battle at Villers-Bocage where he ambushed and destroyed a lot of allied vehicles with his Tiger. He was later killed in the fighting in Normandie and is buried in the main German graveyard there.

He was also an ardent nazi and as far as I know he was just a soldier and he did not do anything especially evil or horrible, he was just a good panzer leader.

Today he is worshipped by the panzer-weaboos and assorted nazis and military fanboys as a god of the divine German army.

Yes, he and Joachim Peiper are the "cool" tank commanders of WW2 the Wehraboos like (though with Peiper it seems more people anow remember his and his unit's involvement in various atrocities). You will come across their units/combat encounters in a number of wargames.

Ok that dude joined the SS in 1933.

Surely the supposed "Good Wehrmacht" representatives would be guys without long pre-war SS careers.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Admiral Yi

#80469
May 14, 2021, 03:54:20 PM
I've always thought it was kind of a gyp that the commander got all the glory instead of the gunner.

Syt

#80470
May 14, 2021, 03:54:30 PM
But they get the cool white on black counters :o
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Razgovory

#80471
May 14, 2021, 03:56:16 PM
Quote from: DGuller on May 14, 2021, 03:51:34 PM
Wasn't Peiper infamous for murdering POWs and slaughtering a couple of Belgian villages along the way?  He was kind of murdered for it in the seventies, so it's not exactly a recent discovery.

Senator Joseph McCarthy saved his life!  He was slated for execution but McCarthy during the Senate hearings.  Fortunately some patriotic Frenchmen (or Frenchwomen) finished the job that Americans would not.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

DGuller

#80472
May 14, 2021, 04:04:25 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 14, 2021, 03:56:16 PM
Quote from: DGuller on May 14, 2021, 03:51:34 PM
Wasn't Peiper infamous for murdering POWs and slaughtering a couple of Belgian villages along the way?  He was kind of murdered for it in the seventies, so it's not exactly a recent discovery.

Senator Joseph McCarthy saved his life!  He was slated for execution but McCarthy during the Senate hearings.  Fortunately some patriotic Frenchmen (or Frenchwomen) finished the job that Americans would not.
I still find American reluctance to properly prosecute war criminals to be baffling, even after taking into account Cold War realities.  Executing POWs by the dozens shouldn't be something that earns you grudging respect as a worthy adversary.

HVC

#80473
May 14, 2021, 04:07:02 PM
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Valmy

#80474
May 14, 2021, 04:09:16 PM
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."
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