article on Stalingrad/kursk axis war cemetries (1 Viewer)

[redhugh]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world...-after-60-years/2008/01/06/1199554485790.html

Came across this today, an article on the reburial of axis forces from stalingrad/kursk battles. Immense task considering the numbers killed

 

[panda1gen]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world...-after-60-years/2008/01/06/1199554485790.html

Came across this today, an article on the reburial of axis forces from stalingrad/kursk battles. Immense task considering the numbers killed

very interesting..............makes you think...........

 

[sceic2]

Death only matters to the living and sometimes the living have a hard time with the dead. I don't think that anyone of those soldiers care where they are, now.

 

[Currahee Chris]

Death only matters to the living and sometimes the living have a hard time with the dead. I don't think that anyone of those soldiers care where they are, now.

True but their loved ones probably do- I know I would if that were one of my relatives. It's a very very thorny issue- I can see both sides of the coin. I think the governments that are allowing the exhumations to occur should be praised but the ones who don't shouldn't be chastised either.

 

[jazzeum]

When are the dead dead and reconciliation begun?

 

[sceic2]

When are the dead dead and reconciliation begun?

When all those that can remember are dead too. Many of my Korean friends tell me that when all the Koreans who were alive during the Korean war are dead, that's when the younger generation will begin to reconstruct a unified Korea. I think that when all the older generation is gone in Eastern Europe the same will apply. Very bitter memories of such brutal warfare are hard to forget. Forgiveness is one thing, forgetting is another. Some will not do either.

 

[debrito]

More than 4 millions Germans (Greater Germany, included Austrians, Sudetes and Polish and Alsatians Germans) died on the east front. On the beginning of operation Bleu, the Battle of Stalingrad, the life expectancy for a soldier was 24h.

Rod.

 

[Currahee Chris]

....the life expectancy for a soldier was 24h.

Love it when the brass drops those numbers to the troops- nothing helps morale like telling you you are living your very last day of your life.

I remember my company commander told us, when I was stationed on the Z in Korea, that we had approximately 8 minutes if the North Koreans decided to roll over the line again. One of the mechanics kept a budweiser in his toolbox in case the NK's decided to roll while we were at work.