"The German" - Short Film

[Wolfman]

Cool find Sam. Thanks.

[DC Smackmaster]

That was really cool. Thanks.

[The Seer]

Didn't know Ireland was "neutral"....No wonder the British hate them.

[campinfool]

Should have shot that Kraut in the woods when he had the chance.

[mvscal]

Didn't know Ireland was "neutral"....No wonder the British hate them.

You are a colossal dumbfuck. Of course they were neutral.

They just fought a war with Britain from 1919-1921 and had acheived a nominal independence by the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. Ireland was heartily sick and tired of fighting English wars and neutrality was an overwhelmingly popular decision despite the economic hardships it entailed. There were some extremists (mostly IRA) who supported Germany and more supported the Allies (something like 40,000 Irish fought with the Allies) but most wished a pox on both the Germans and the British.

In any event, the film is completely incorrect. Allied pilots were not interned for the duration. They were returned after an agreement was negotiated in '42 or 43. Germans were held for the duration.

[Carson]

Should have shot that Kraut in the woods when he had the chance.

But not before making him squeal like a pig.

[Goober McTuber]

Should have shot that Kraut in the woods when he had the chance.

Idiot.

[Dinsdale]

I might have to watch it. I saw the title, and figured it involved some chicks eating poo.

[Wolfman]

This guy escaped from Canada to the USA when we were "neutral" before Pearl Harbor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Werra

I remember a German POW camp in Newark NY where my grandfather lived. It was the old high school there that they made into a prison complete with barbed wire. When I had to
walk by, I'd see the German soldiers inside the wire and was so scared of them, I'd walk on the other side of the street. Where my Dad worked in Syracuse they had some German POW
trustees that kept the foundry cleaned up. My Dad spoke German and he was in charge of a group when they worked at the plant. Several trustee POW's worked on farms in CNY too. Some
even came back a bought farms and lived there after the war. The hard core Nazi types were not given much freedom.