A World War II Quiz.

[Knight-Dragon]

Originally posted by pawpaw
who actually wrote mein kampf ( we all know it was hitlers book but he never actually put pen to paper, someone else did)

What has this to do with WW2?

Pls keep it to the 1939-1945 time-frame pls. Thanks.

 

[CruddyLeper]

Originally posted by XIII
What has this to do with WW2?

Pls keep it to the 1939-1945 time-frame pls. Thanks.

If you take Mein Kampf as a blue print for the Nazi war plan, I'd say it had a lot to do with WW2. "Claiming Lebensraum to the east" is what I'm talking about here.

The rules stated events leading up to, during, or just after. Aren't you being a bit stern with that moderator whip?

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Originally posted by CruddyLeper
If you take Mein Kampf as a blue print for the Nazi war plan, I'd say it had a lot to do with WW2. "Claiming Lebensraum to the east" is what I'm talking about here.

The rules stated events leading up to, during, or just after. Aren't you being a bit stern with that moderator whip?

If you want to pursue your discourse to its logical conclusion, well, the seeds of WW2 lie in Germany's defeat in WW1. And that in turn, due to Germany's ambitions, and the entanglement of alliances in the period up to WW1. And so on.

Do you want to expand the scope to incl therein as well? We've to put the limits somewhere...

Let's just keep this to a military-political-social-whatever quiz, focused on the 1939-1945 WW2 period, shall we?

BTW, mod actions are not subject to public discussion or scrutiny. If you have an issue, pls PM me in private and we'll discuss it, per the standard procedures.

 

[CruddyLeper]

OK. So is it Ukas's turn to post a question?

Or does pawpaw have his Mein Kampf question quashed and gets ti ask another?

 

[pawpaw]

i think ukas go'es fair and square

 

[pawpaw]

open question , anyone ask

 

[CruddyLeper]

East one - which US staff officer is remembered for saying "I will return".

 

[jack merchant]

Douglas MacArthur

 

[CruddyLeper]

Echte. Your question Jack - I'm off to bed.

 

[jack merchant]

Another easy one (since I'm off to bed soon, too)

Which American commander famously replied 'Nuts' when told to surrender by the Germans at Bastogne ?

 

[Serutan]

Gen. McAuliffe. Although there have been claims he used
a rather stronger word...

 

[jack merchant]

Your question, Serutan

I wouldn't be surprised either if it turned out that his words had been sanitized a bit for posterity's sake

 

[Serutan]

Name the spy whose information convinced Stalin it was safe to
move those 40 Siberian divisions to Moscow in Nov-Dec
1941?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

I believe that was Stalin's man in Japan, Richard Sorge.

 

[Serutan]

Yup. Your question, Eddie.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Ok. The following picture is a WW2 cap badge.
Which unit used this badge?

 

[YNCS]

The Royal Swiss Lighthouse Service.

I think asking about capbadges is going too deep into trivia.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

You never know, some people are quite keen on this kind of memorabilia. :shrug:

Ok, a clue then. It's a British unit, not very large but quite odd.

 

[pawpaw]

her royal majesty's own queens guard bee keepers regiment

 

[CruddyLeper]

Royal Marine Commando?