<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.0"><channel><title>JoeUser Forums » RSS Feed » World War II Posts</title><link>https://feeds.feedburner.com/Stardock/JoeUser/forum/84</link><copyright>© 2006 - 2026 Stardock Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright><description>Recent Posts In World War II</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 2:56:10 PM -0400</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 2:56:10 PM -0400</lastBuildDate><docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs><generator>Stardock Rss Generator v1.0</generator><managingEditor>info@stardock.com</managingEditor><webMaster>kwilas@stardock.com</webMaster><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/14992</comments><description><![CDATA[So tonight we're watching The Simpsons. Tonight they had two episodes, one of which was about a campaign to make Springfield an un-kid friendly place.  About half-way through, they have a scene of them changing the Toy's R Us logo and show kids crying including Milhouse grimacing. It was just for a couple of seconds. But apparently I'm not the only world war II history freak out there. One of the writers&nbsp;there made a reference to a World War II image of a sad French man in a crowd as the ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/14992</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/14992</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 7:12:02 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-09-12T07:12:02-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Ok, so I'm a history freak...</title></item><item><author>utemia</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/358897</comments><description><![CDATA[I just read that they defused a 1000 pound aircraft bomb in Freiburg (where I live) on the 2nd of July, last week. A digger operator on a construction site next to the university hospital complex discovered it suddenly in his bucket. There are special police EOD units for unexploded american and british demolition and fire bombs in Germany and nothing happened, but that is no guarantee. Most duds are discovered by perusing allied aerial pictures from WW2, and by accident on construction sites. S...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/358897</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/358897</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 7:06:54 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-08-29T07:06:54-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Unexploded Ordenance from World War 2</title></item><item><author>DrJBHL</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/403875</comments><description><![CDATA[ Band of Brothers leader dies   Last Updated: Monday, January 10, 2011 | 12:51 PM ET    CBC News      A December 1945 photo shows Maj. Richard Winters, whose quiet leadership was chronicled in the book and television miniseries Band of Brothers. Winters died Jan. 2.   (Courtesy of Sgt. Maj. Herman W. Clemens/Associated Press)   Richard "Dick" Winters, a U.S. soldier and Second World War commander whose story was told in  Band of Brothers,  has died. He was 92.  Winters died Jan. 2 in centr...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/403875</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/403875</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 1:15:58 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2011-01-12T13:15:58-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Richard Winters Has Died</title></item><item><author>utemia</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/358389</comments><description><![CDATA[ John Demjanjuk has been declared fit to stand trial in Germany, probably one of the last huge trials of an alleged Nazi warcrime perpetrator.    ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/358389</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/358389</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 7:30:35 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-07-05T07:30:35-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>John Demjanjuk</title></item><item><author>Syre William Byrd</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/10451</comments><description><![CDATA[  Well now,                   The 15year olds are being taught in their history class( for the exam GCSE,  UK) about the Battle of Britain. They will be concerned to understand the underlying causes, the events, and the consequences of the conflict. Their investigation is centered around the Key Question,  Who won the Battle of Britain ? Surely an open and shut case? A case that, before the lesson I did an unscientific 'straw poll' to see what they already thought, they already know the answer ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/10451</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/10451</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 5:44:13 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-10-10T17:44:13-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Who won the Battle ofBritain c 1940?</title></item><item><author>stutefish</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/76381</comments><description><![CDATA[   Okay, so I'm reading Winston Churchill's account of World War 2.  As you may already know, Churchill was Prime MInister of Great Britain during almost the entire war (for part of 1939, just after the Nazi aggression began, he was First Lord of the Admiralty--the civilian chief of the British navy).  He gives a detailed, comprehensive account, in six volumes, of everything he knew and did, relating to the War.  He reproduces official written policy documents on almost every page.  Each volum...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/76381</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/76381</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 5:41:00 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-10-10T17:41:00-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>So I'm Reading Churchill on WW2...</title></item><item><author>stutefish</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/76303</comments><description><![CDATA[   SETTING: A bar.  CAST: Bartender Patrons Lion  BARTENDER: What can I get you?  PATRON: Draft beer, please.  BARTENDER: Here you go.  PATRON pays, takes beer back to table.  BARTENDER: What can I get you?  LION: Actually, do you mind if I rampage in here a bit?    BARTENDER:  I dunno... a rampaging lion isn't really what the bar scene is all about.  LION: I'll let you loot the bodies of any victims too maimed or dead to resist.  BARTENDER: Oh, well.  In that case, be my ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/76303</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/76303</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 5:30:01 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-10-10T17:30:01-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>How Soviet Russia Won World War II</title></item><item><author>stevendedalus</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/322128</comments><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;   &nbsp;  She took down a cookie jar and poured from the bag a myriad of hard candies into the jar, and took it into the living room to set it down next to the wooden bowl. Starting back for the kitchen, she paused, turned to the mantelpiece and stared at the yellow paper. Taking the wargram and holding it at arms length, she glanced at it, then slowly walked to the armchair and sat on its edge. She read it again and again&mdash;always it read the same way. Finally she rubbed her eyes a...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/322128</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/322128</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 8:40:31 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-24T08:40:31-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Home Front</title></item><item><author>stevendedalus</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/321817</comments><description><![CDATA[  Sally was at the threshold of womanhood and she knew it from the hours spent before the mirror admiring God&rsquo;s miraculous evolution from a boring, simplistic state of angles and straight lines to the complex math of subtle curves. Pam, on the other hand, though perhaps as blossoming&mdash;conceivably more so&mdash;was unaware of it, or did not dwell on it. There lay the difference&mdash;that which is market-able, though resistant, perhaps indifferent to fashionable demand and supply owing...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/321817</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/321817</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 5:18:49 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-21T17:18:49-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Nostalgia: 1941</title></item><item><author>stevendedalus</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/321473</comments><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;  &nbsp;   Before the push toward the ominous Mt. Yaetake on the China Sea peninsula, the squad&rsquo;s regiment was camped outside a small village by the end of the second week. The troops rose before the crack of dawn to line up before the regimental cooks who had prepared hospital rations&mdash;a cuisine approach to dehydrated foods with a smattering of fresh meat and vegetables whenever logistically feasible. Infantry men burn up heaps of energy and calories and it is preferable that...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/321473</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/321473</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 2:21:06 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-18T14:21:06-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Humor &amp; Sadness on the Front Line</title></item><item><author>stevendedalus</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/321220</comments><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;   Excerpt from my novel      12:     Sunday Bulletin       Johnny&mdash;most of the old timers being drafted&mdash;was caddying on the bright, sunny day of infamy. Ricocheting round the course was news of the bombing. Johnny had never heard of Pearl Harbor nor did the other caddies in the foursome. His golfer explained what and where it was. Johnny thought of the strange places depicted in war cards that had no true sense of place, no meaning just as the early years of the war in Europe...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/321220</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/321220</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 1:33:03 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-16T01:33:03-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>December 7</title></item><item><author>stevendedalus</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/321111</comments><description><![CDATA[ &nbsp;    &nbsp;   Bougainville  The United States did once again turn its attention to the Pacific Theatre. Johnny had thought that he would never encounter another jungle as inhospi-table as Guadalcanal until he landed on Bougainville. When his battalion hit the beach there, it was so narrow that tangled growth hung over the lapping shores. There was consolation in that they had immediate cover and advanced into the jungle against scattered sniper fire which was as blind as its source was i...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/321111</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/321111</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 1:46:51 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-15T13:46:51-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Excerpt from my war novel</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/75141</comments><description><![CDATA[Pat Buchanan seems to be shaking off any sort of doubt about his sympathies for the old Third Reich.  But Vodka Pundit has taken him back to the wood shed. Check out this article linked below..  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/75141</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/75141</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 9:57:28 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-14T21:57:28-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Is Pat Buchanan an idiot or a Nazi sympathizer?</title></item><item><author>KFC Kickin For Christ</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/321002</comments><description><![CDATA[ I came across this true&nbsp;story recently.&nbsp;&nbsp; I've never heard of Irene Sendler before but admire her courage and dedication to her fellowman.&nbsp;     Lula especially would like this story because Irene was a Catholic Social Worker.&nbsp; Anyhow, this is a very condensed story about her.&nbsp; More can be found by googling her name.&nbsp; Pretty gutsy woman!&nbsp;&nbsp; The end is like a kick in the face....but doesn't matter.&nbsp; God will reward this woman and the riches of th...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/321002</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/321002</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 9:59:52 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-08-14T09:59:52-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>A Woman With A Mission</title></item><item><author>Ande</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/36301</comments><description><![CDATA[     One of my hobbies is Genealogy (Family History).  I never knew I had an Uncle in WW2 . He was never mentioned and it wasn't until I started looking into the FamilyTree  checking details and interviewing that the following story finally emerged. You may or may not be interested but it's a good War Yarn about an episode .                                       (one of thousands) that are never told.  It took place on the Indonesian Island of Timor- Ande (Brian Anderson)  ISLAND UNDER THE...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/36301</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/36301</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 2:57:40 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-24T02:57:40-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>A Family Story</title></item><item><author>erathoniel</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/318538</comments><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AUTHOR'S NOTE: I do not subscribe to the Church of Secular Humanism (just take the tax exemption, already), so this work is not technically "heretical", and it is filled with my bias, but you can try to prove me wrong.  Introduction:  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hitler subscribed to the teachings of Darwin in making his racist, hate-filled Third Reich which, at one point, threatened to take over the world and create a eugenics-fed super-planet. This man was, undoubtedly...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/318538</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/318538</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:52:18 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-21T09:52:18</pubDateParsed><title>The First Secular Crusade- Introduction</title></item><item><author>erathoniel</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/318587</comments><description><![CDATA[ Cactoblasta said: "Humanism is a democratic and ethical life stance, which affirms thathuman beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning andshape to their own lives. It stands for the building of a more humanesociety through an ethic based on human and other natural values in thespirit of reason and free inquiry through human capabilities. It is nottheistic, and it does not accept supernatural views of reality."  This is the statement of the International Humanist and Ethical Uni...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/318587</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/318587</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 7:10:50 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-07-18T19:10:50-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>The First Secular Crusade- Part 1</title></item><item><author>Big Fat Daddy</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/314295</comments><description><![CDATA[ There are darn few of them left, WWII veterans&nbsp;are leaving us at the rate of about a thousand a day.&nbsp; How many Normandy survivors are still around?&nbsp;&nbsp;Can't say, but for those who were there and are still here...my deepest, sincerest, heartfelt thanks for what you did.&nbsp; There is no way to calculate the debt this country owes you, but I, for one, will always remember and be grateful.   ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/314295</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/314295</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 3:18:17 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-06-07T15:18:17-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>June 6th, 2008</title></item><item><author>IanTyger</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/138244</comments><description><![CDATA[   Today  is the 65th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. And as the first-hand survivors fade away , it becomes incumbent on the inheritors to keep them alive in our hearts and memories.   ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/138244</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/138244</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 1:23:31 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-02-23T01:23:31-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>December 7th, 1941</title></item><item><author>Istari</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/10597</comments><description><![CDATA[Some people say the United States behaves like a world bully. There's a term for those people: Morons. Pampered morons but morons nevertheless.  Let us pretend that in 1944 when Roosevelt died that his Vice President was actually I. Bully. He was actually the genetic twin of Adolph Hitler. And as World War II came to a close, he instituted a policy of world bullyism. What would he have done and what could have been done about it?  1945: The entire population of Japan is exterminated. Every m...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/10597</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/10597</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 2:05:26 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-10-03T14:05:26-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>The United States as a bully</title></item><item><author>estrellaobscura</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/127891</comments><description><![CDATA[      A Small Boy's Wartime memories     I will be relating this tale as if I were talking to you over a beer in a pub.  I was born in 1936 so that when the war started I was three and a half years old(half's matter when you are very young). I can't remember much about that time but, about two years later in 1941 when there was the “Battle of Britain”, That's when I really started remembering. It was fireworks every night. (In fact after the war on the first fire works night I was quite...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/127891</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/127891</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 3:17:41 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2006-08-23T15:17:41-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Memories</title></item><item><author>singrdave</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/89623</comments><description><![CDATA[   Sixty years ago, the International Military Tribunal held what has come to be known as the Nuremberg Trials, which endeavored to judge all the people who had been complicit in the Nazi Party and Germany's instigation of war.    The point was to ferret out and prosecute all those who inflicted Nazi rule on an unsuspecting Europe.  I quote from Wikipedia, which is much more concise than the official sites:   The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved i...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/89623</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/89623</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 4:10:24 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2005-10-19T16:10:24-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Nuremberg: 60 Years Later</title></item><item><author>lock rock</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/88132</comments><description><![CDATA[   im so sick of white girls thinking thay r black  crack heads/  gheto people niggers/white trash trailer trash rap b/s red necks /drugs and bush/ Link    ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/88132</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/88132</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 5:30:54 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2005-10-15T17:30:54-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>things i hate the most in life</title></item><item><author>Reiki-House</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/68277</comments><description><![CDATA[   I know what I had been taught about WW2 and the Holocaust and all, but there are some rather interesting facts about the history of it all. You have to watch the video by David Cole on the provided link. It's taboo to think about these facts but there are some things that are hard to explain away. Take for example the fact Auchwitz had a theatre complete with a stage and props and costumes. You don't see or hear about it during the tour, but it's undeniable they are there and unmentioned. Or ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/68277</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/68277</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2005 6:13:39 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2005-05-09T18:13:39-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Holocaust Revisionism:Swimming Pool, Stocked Theatre</title></item><item><author>Adam Najmanowicz</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/62778</comments><description><![CDATA[   Today is the 60th anniversary of liberation of the Auschwitz concentation camp. Probably the last round anniversary with so many witnesses still alive. Auschwitz was a German Nazzis' camp of mass murder which took the death toll of about 1.5 million people. Most of them were Jews from Poland and surrounding countries, Poles, Gypsies and homosexuals and Soviet POWs. The leaders of 30 countries gather in Krakow, POLAND (near Oswiecim - polish name for German Auschwitz) today to honor the death ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/62778</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/62778</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2005 9:55:08 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2005-01-28T21:55:08-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>We need to remember , not to let the horror ever happen again.</title></item></channel></rss>