hmm any of your research involve penal battalion 27?

Post #140,644 by boxley 2/9/04 12:17:08 AM Reply	hmm any of your research involve penal battalion 27? and everywhere the great Curse of the New World, the American Child, in all its raucous, spoiled, undiciplined, selfish ghastliness, the female specimens keeping up an incessant high-pitched whine and the male infants racketing like cowpokes on payday. There's nothing wrong with grown Americans, by and large you wont find heartier men or bonnier women anywhere, but the only remedy I can see for the children is to run Herod for President. Sir Harold Flashman esquire VC OBE questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #140,645 by Nightowl 2/9/04 12:22:31 AM 2/9/04 12:26:05 AM Reply	I don't believe so. I focused mostly on the Internment camps, concentration camps, the notorious Nazi prison whose name currently escapes me, and the relationship between prisoner and captive. I also peripherally focused on the US Army Air Corps and the 8th Divison of that. Edit: I also read any number of books about the actuality and makeup of the Third Reich, as well as about Hitler himself and insights into his past, i.e. why he became who he became. My novel was essentially was about man's inhumanity to man. Nightowl >8# P.S. What was Penal Battalion 27? I looked for it online but didn't pull anything up. Should I search on it separately? "To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are." Eric Hoffer Edited by Nightowl Feb. 9, 2004, 12:26:05 AM EST Expand All History
Post #140,652 by boxley 2/9/04 12:43:00 AM Reply	No it is a well known sorta hoax which could lead you astray dangit brain freeze, sven hassel, I know someone I used to work for as a body guard who was physically present at Stalingrad, he still had his paybooks and drivers license signed by herr adolf himself. Sven Hassel was a Danish person who claims to have been in stalingrad but has been persued by nay sayers ever since his books got published, Since he appears to be a dedicated communist in my mind that defrocking could well be part of the cold war garbage. However my friend who was also in a penalty battalion in the same place said no freakin way would they be given tanks, due to his position as a driver for a defrocked S.S. general named "Thorpe"in charge of a Luftwaffe ant-aircraft unit that was converted to tank killing he was all over the kettle and never ran in to such a unit. My friend got stitched by a heavy machine gun and lost all use of right arm and part use of left which was a million dollar wound at the time as he couldnt raise a gun to fire it. He was triaged and let go at one of the last evacuation flights from the airport befor it was closed. His first hand Stories are horrific and should be published but he suffered a stroke before he offered publishing rights. His family prefers ignominity and refuses to allow me to publish his memoirs. I checked his veracity via his Soldaten book, his wounds and when he was passed out whether he had his blood type tattoed under his armpit. If it was there he might not have woken up. We joked about that later that it was a good thing that wasnt the case. thanx, bill thanx, bill and everywhere the great Curse of the New World, the American Child, in all its raucous, spoiled, undiciplined, selfish ghastliness, the female specimens keeping up an incessant high-pitched whine and the male infants racketing like cowpokes on payday. There's nothing wrong with grown Americans, by and large you wont find heartier men or bonnier women anywhere, but the only remedy I can see for the children is to run Herod for President. Sir Harold Flashman esquire VC OBE questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #140,658 by Nightowl 2/9/04 12:54:57 AM Reply	Ah okay Well if it was an internet hoax, all my research was done many years back, before I'd ever heard of the internet, in the 1980's and I only used actual books from actual libraries and stores. :) So I'd never heard of it. Nightowl >8# "To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are." Eric Hoffer
Post #140,711 by boxley 2/9/04 11:44:50 AM Reply	not a net hoax, real one book was legion of the damned even got a movie made out of it. [link\|http://www.dansmith.info/hassel/topics.asp?ID=47\|http://www.dansmith..../topics.asp?ID=47] thanx, bill and everywhere the great Curse of the New World, the American Child, in all its raucous, spoiled, undiciplined, selfish ghastliness, the female specimens keeping up an incessant high-pitched whine and the male infants racketing like cowpokes on payday. There's nothing wrong with grown Americans, by and large you wont find heartier men or bonnier women anywhere, but the only remedy I can see for the children is to run Herod for President. Sir Harold Flashman esquire VC OBE questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]

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