Where wouldn't you have wanted to be?

1. A member of the merchant navy bobbing around in the ocean after your freighter was sunk by a sub. Is that a shark fin in the distance?

2. USAF tail gunner on a daylight raid over Berlin. Casualties in bomber command were excessive and horrific.

3. A Japanese soldier anywhere near the action. No food, disease, life expectancy of 0, brutal commanders.

4. Anyone, civilian or soldier/airman, on the eastern front.

5. In Leningrad. Or a concentration camp.

 

Would want to be in Berlin when the Red Army was banging on it's doors their BM-14s, but you'd only have to worry about that if you survived numerous bombing raids carried out by the British. Stalingrad was in a much better position to be reinforced, Berlin was surrounded and then basically exterminated. Honestly i would have taken the spiritual Nazis over the barbaric Stalinist rule, Albeit two hells one just that one you might have a chance to survive in given you weren't classified part of the jewish plague as Hitler so elequaintly put it.

 

One of the German POW´s caught in Stalingrad starting the long march towards Siberia in my summer clothing....I always shiver when I see the pics of surrendered Germans in early feb 1943 in Stalingrad...What a cold hell ahead...

 

Anywhere near this or any other war.

Cheers,
Adam.

 

Actualy, if you compare precentage of German and Soviet POV's who made it through the oposite camps - Germanse had a better chanses of pulling it off
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I sure would't want to be a Jew in Auschwitz!

 

Inside a Corcodile with a platoon Of Germans behind the next house and no ammunition.

 

Oh, this is a toughie. Many places I would not want to be.

- In Stalingrad as a POW
- In a concentration camp
- In Hiroshima or Nagasaki at the time of the dropping of the bomb
- In Dresden or Rostock during the firestorms

Too much to choose from. I may as well and join von Poop and stay out of war.

 

Too many to choose from..........

1. I would not want to be fighting on the German side from late 43'.

2. I would not want to be a Jew in any occupied German territory.

3. I woud not want to be a Russian soldier in the opening days of Barbarossa.

4. I would not want to be present in Leningrad while being besieged by the "spiritual Nazis."

And many many more.....

 

Too easy: any jew in auschwitz of course.

But also, i wouldn't have wanted to be Stauffenberg in the moment when he heard at the radio that hitler was alive. i can't imagine something more shocking... he must have thought that the devil himself had brought hilter back to life.

 

Oh man, cold and starving and making a foot march into Siberia. I'd rather have a Soviet put a bullet in my head.

Any of Hitler's "fortress's"........fight til the last bullet.

The first wave on June 6.

 

I would not want to be on the "recieving end" of any of the wars largest most worst artillery barrages: i.e: Tobruk, El Alamein, Bastogne and any on the Eastern Front etc. Also, I would not have wanted to experiance the hell, that was the BAttles for the Hurtgen Forest.

 

12:14 AM, July 30th, 1945....
USS INDIANAPOLIS

 

don't want to be on the recieving end of anything that goes boom.

Attu Island with improper equipment and not enough supplies.

And I don't want to be near any Kamikaze attacks

 

All of the above, + a Chinese in Nanking.

 

Below decks on the USS Arizona Dec.7.
In a Sherman tank during Goodwood.
Driver of any German vehicle anywhere near Normandy.

 

I would also hate to be sitting in Wittmans tank at Normandy....

 

I'm surprised that none of our American members haven't opted for this.

SO I'll do it.

-Shovelling shit in Louisianna.

 

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US Soldier Massacre at Malmedy.