2nd WW2 Cumulative History Quiz

[cidknee]

umm no not really, it wasnt a song but ive never heard of that before.

 

[FriendlyFire]

heres an easy one.

What was Atlantico?

A shot in the dark
US-british Navy conovy system ?

 

[Rik Meleet]

Not an answer to this question, just something I want to share.
I've been on holiday last week and I've learned some WW II trivia that I didn't know. And I don't think many of you know either. I think I can make a good question out of it. If anyone answers the standing question correctly, but has no question themselves; please PM me and I will post a question about my new found trivia.

thanks

 

[cidknee]

ok its been a few days. maybey i should answer it?


ok i will. since my network keeps borking on me.

atlantico, was mousilinis(sp?) horse

and if my .02 is worth anything Rik, id love to hear your question.

 

[Rik Meleet]

I spend a short holiday last week on the dutch Island of Texel.

Europe's last battlefield

On Texel I learned that 800 soldiers of a certain part of the Soviet Union + 400 Germans were during the last months of the war. The Soviets were drafted into the German army, as happened with more Soviet captured soldiers.
On the 5th of April 1945 they were given the order that the next day they were to fight on Germany's side. They didn't want to and rose up at 01:00 (1am) the next day.

Quote from Wikipedia:

On the night of April 5-6, 1945, expecting an Allied landing soon, they rose against the Germans and took control of the island for a short while (approximately 400 Germans lost their lives that night), but they failed to capture the naval batteries on the north and the south of the island. Thus they were unable to stop German reinforcements from being brought in. The Germans launched a counter offensive supported by armour from the Dutch mainland and retook the island after weeks of very tough fighting.

During this Russian war (as it is known on Texel) approximately 800 Germans, 570 CENSORED, and 120 Tesselans were killed. The destruction was enormous; dozens of farms went up in flames. The pointless bloodshed lasted beyond the German capitulation in the Netherlands and Denmark on May 5, 1945, and Germany's general surrender on May 8, 1945. Not until May 20, 1945 were Canadian troops able to pacify "Europe?s last battlefield."

The fallen CENSORED lie buried in a ceremonial cemetery at the Hogeberg near Oudeschild. The survivors did not have a happy ending: pursuant to the terms of the Yalta Conference, they were forcibly repatriated by the Allies from the German POW camp to the Soviet Union. Stalin considered the POWs' initial capture by the Germans, or surrender to them, as treason because the soldier did not fight to the death, so most of the two million Soviet POWs who were sent back to the Soviet Union by the Allied forces after the end of the war were executed upon their return.

The final resting places of Allied flight crews can be found in the community cemetery in Den Burg.

A permanent exhibition about this event is in the Aeronautical Museum at the island's airport.

Question: What part of the Soviet Union were they from ?

 

[Rik Meleet]

Here a nice picture of Texel:

 

[Serutan]

Ukraine {filler}?

 

[Wotan]

Don Cossacks?

 

[nonconformist]

Georgia ?

 

[cidknee]

werent they georgians?

arrgh, nonconformist beat me to it. i only remember this cause my wifes father was a huge history buff and from holland.

 

[Rik Meleet]

Georgians, indeed. Your floor noncon.

 

[nonconformist]

Hooray for me.

Why, allegedly, was the pact between the Soviets and the Nazis called "Molotov-Ribbentropp"?

ANd I'm looking for something deeper than "They were called Molotov and Ribbentropp".

 

[Serutan]

Because they were the ones who negotiated/signed it? IIRC
Stalin and Hitler carefully stayed out of the spotlight on this....

 

[nonconformist]

Not quite......it has something to do with WHY HItler and Stalin stayed outta the spotlight.

 

[Serutan]

Hmm... At a guess, I would then say that Hitler and Stalin
didn't want other countries to suspect that they had not only
concluded a nonagression pact, but had in fact split Eastern
Europe between them.

 

[nonconformist]

Nope, sorry.

 

[steviejay]

I'd say it was called what it was called because frankly Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia had different ideologies. They didn't want to associate themselves with one another

 

[nonconformist]

I'd say it was called what it was called because frankly Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia had different ideologies. They didn't want to associate themselves with one another

Nope. Think prestige .

 

[Rik Meleet]

guess:

Hitler and Stalin hated eachother so much that they didn't want their names connected; not even to a secret pact ?

 

[Serutan]

Because it was hastily concluded, niether H. nor S. wanted to
look like he had done this out of desperation?