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bigbang · February 15th, 2012, 09:35 AM

You have to pay for everything. One way or the other. The divedend from this depth loyality is that we don't have to pay interest rates for our govenment bonds but receive interest rates for borrowing money.
Wolf

1KPerDay · February 15th, 2012, 01:46 PM

Fascinating and sad. Thanks for posting.

IC2(SS)19Z50C5 · February 15th, 2012, 11:14 PM

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And that my friend is what set the stage for WWll.

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It is good and great to see one of the younger generation members knowing and espousing knowledge of world history with a true appreciation for it... Sadly many today have not a clue..

Pro_USA1776 · February 16th, 2012, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by bigbang

BTW German reparation payments for WW1 ended 10.03.2010
Wolf

Wolf,

I knew that about reparation payments and that they were stopped in the 1930s and then restarted in the 1950s. I find it interesting that Germany received money from the US after WWI and it was almost immediately transferred to France...

CHARLIED308 · February 16th, 2012, 06:33 AM

Thanks for the link. It was a very interesting story. I sent the link to some of the other guys at my gun club who shoot in the Mauser League.

tmcfalls · February 16th, 2012, 08:06 AM

I watched a show on Nat Geo a few days ago about a trench excavation in I think Belgium. One of the archeologist pointed out that the shelling in the area had been so intense that it had changed the soil composition, you could dig down anywhere in the area and find a layer of visible iron.

svandamme · February 27th, 2012, 05:01 AM

I live 800 meters from the Yorkshire trench dig, which i think might be the one from the Nat Geo documentary.I'm pretty sure that , if i dig deep enough in my garden, i'll find something. Either an artifact, a body, or gunfire ordinance of some sort. It all just depends on how much i feel like digging the clay.

2 years ago they dug up a Livens projector still containing it's load of Phosgene.
I'm happy to report i live on a hill and even happier that Phosgene is heavier then air.

The amount of effort and creativity they applied towards killing one another is off the scale.

My house is in the top left, Yorkshire trench is somewhere top right

It was the starting point for the battle of Pilkem Ridge, which itself was the prelude to the Battle of Passchendale.
For those who like the term SHTF, well, there have been very few Fans that had bigger amounts of Chit hit them for such lenghts of time. There have been battlefields, there have been chitholes, there have been manythings. But the larger area around Ypres and North of France, is one of the areas that has seen some of the most concentrated yet widespread and prolonged fighting , ever...