What a day! augustine biergarten

[MarillionFan]

Membership was compulsory for children.

So invading Poland is optional then?

[stek]

Membership was compulsory for children.

Only from 1937, and the war made it hard enforce though many still did.

Not much different from Komsomol really...

Sieg Heil - Spasibo, Tvarishu Stalinu, not much difference really...

[AtW]

So invading Poland is optional then?

It probably would not have happened if allies were more forceful when nazies took over Sudetenland.

[eek]

So invading Poland is optional then?

No need nowadays. By tricking other countries to use their currency they likely to end up managing all of europe within the next 5 years.

[AtW]

Only from 1937, and the war made it hard enforce though many still did.

Hard to enforce membership in compulsory organization during *war* in *Germany*?

The point is that just like membership in some compulsory Soviet organisations like pioneers (which I was a member) can't be taken against bloody children.

Now SS was voluntary for most part of war even though in later years they also used conscription for military units.

[TimberWolf]

If it wasn't for Germany, we'd be speaking American now.

War Plan Red - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[scooterscot]

If it wasn't for Germany, we'd be speaking American now.

You already do:

"Road map"

"Kicking the can down the road"

There's a dozen more. Americanisms are used in British media all the time, the second washington spouts a new phrase it's common place in the UK.

English originality - RIP

[stek]

Hard to enforce membership in compulsory organization during *war* in *Germany*?

The point is that just like membership in some compulsory Soviet organisations like pioneers (which I was a member) can't be taken against bloody children.

Now SS was voluntary for most part of war even though in later years they also used conscription for military units.

Yes, the entire NASDP under Herr Hitler was disorganised mess, read any book on the subject. Autobahns mostly unfinished and no Beetles ever produced!

My missus wasn't a pioneer but she went on the summer camps! Her ex-bf was in it she's telling me, but that was at the fall of the SU.

But the point I was trying to make is the indoctrination was there, on German and Soviet sides, I've even got my missus' mum's sniper badge here, she had a sniper qualification at only just over school age...

She was born in 1956.

[stek]

You already do:

"Road map"

"Kicking the can down the road"

There's a dozen more. Americanisms are used in British media all the time, the second washington spouts a new phrase it's common place in the UK.

English originality - RIP

Clockwork Orange anyone? Burgess thought that the CCCP would win the cold war, and predicated British slang would be full of Russian-isms such as 'horrorshow=khorosho=good' and 'droogs=dryuzhya=friends'.

Great book that, film not so great but still good...

[AtW]

Yes, the entire NASDP under Herr Hitler was disorganised mess, read any book on the subject. Autobahns mostly unfinished and no Beetles ever produced!

I assume here you are being very sarcastic.