Originally Posted by Markintime

I thought it was Berlin not the Ruhr.

So did I, I think it was, for once, our propaganda machine that altered it to Berlin. But I am absolutely sure that Hitler only had one ball, Goering had 2 but very small, Himmler had something similar but poor old Goebbels had no balls at all.

Originally Posted by bokkatankie

.... but poor old Goebbels had no balls at all.

Would explain why he was so pissed! I mean, someone else would have been shagging his missus to produce their massive amount of offspring

Originally Posted by Ronin(GE)

Would explain why he was so pissed! I mean, someone else would have been shagging his missus to produce their massive amount of offspring

Given the alacrity with which he disposed of them, perhaps you are right.

No wonder he looked so glum:

Originally Posted by bokkatankie

No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.
Addressing the Luftwaffe (September 1939) as quoted in August 1939: The Last Days of Peace (1979) by Nicholas Fleming, p. 171; "Meyer" (or "Meier") is a common name in Germany. This statement would come back to haunt him as Allied bombers devastated Germany; many ordinary Germans, especially in Berlin, took to calling him "Meier". It is said that he once himself introduced himself as "Meier" when taking refuge in an air-raid shelter in Berlin.

Goering had a sense of humour and was able to laugh at himself. There is a story that he took personal command of the fighter control system and mistook a group pof defenders for an air raid and sent the German fighters to chase each other round the sky. He is supposed to have awarded a medal for the battle of Kopernick - after a famous spoof when some Kaiser era Walter Mitty dressed up as a Prussian Officer and turned out the garrison for a day.

Originally Posted by bokkatankie

Given the alacrity with which he disposed of them, perhaps you are right.

No wonder he looked so glum:

Hardly a good specimen for an Aryan master race considering he had a deformed right leg, the result either of club foot or osteomyelitis.

Originally Posted by sunami

Hardly a good specimen for an Aryan master race considering he had a deformed right leg, the result either of club foot or osteomyelitis.

Perhaps he is thinking of his mother in law. She married a Jewish chap called Friedlander, who died in Buchenwald.

Magda certainly did her bit for the Ayryan race. How son by her first marriage to one of the Quandt's - (Gobbel's step son) ended up as head of the Quandt family buisness VARTA owniong a big bit of BWM etc post war..

Originally Posted by Pteranadon

Perhaps he is thinking of his mother in law. She married a Jewish chap called Friedlander, who died in Buchenwald.

Magda certainly did her bit for the Ayryan race. How son by her first marriage to one of the Quandt's - (Gobbel's step son) ended up as head of the Quandt family buisness VARTA owniong a big bit of BWM etc post war..

Ah the one that got away, was he visiting his Father when she killed the rest of her kiddies?

Originally Posted by Markintime

It should be remembered that the RAF bombing acted to inform the German people that there was resistance and that force would be met with force. The Germans as a nation were almost entirely fed propaganda that Germany was invincible and would crush all opposition before them. The RAF were a painful reminder that they weren't. They also let the German people know that their authorities were feeding them bullshit.

Can't remember the blokes name, but one of the Dutch Resistance leaders was once quoted as saying:

"They tell us that they are the Master Race, but when the drone starts, we see them cower under tables. Do you know what that does for us?" Interesting third-order effects, and all that.

Molotov said much the same thing when the RAF bombed Berlin when he was visiting.

Originally Posted by bokkatankie

Ah the one that got away, was he visiting his Father when she killed the rest of her kiddies?

No he was in a PW cage. According to this discussion forum Any info or photos of Harald Quandt (the goebbels stepson) as a FJ ? - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums

The Oberleutnant Harald Quandt fought in Sicily belonging to the 3rd company (commanded by the Oberleutnant Horst Matheus) of the Pioniere Bataillon (1. FJD), during the fighting around the Primosole bridge, on 14 July 1943.

Later, Quandt was captured by the British in Tomba di Pesaro in September 1944.

So Harald Goebbels may have been a fighting soldier. Primasole bridge is a good name to mention. I wonder if he served in Crete? (The Goebebels side of the family may not have been the bad bit. The Quandts have their own family business concentration camp supplying labout to their concerns.)

Magda was particularly stupid to kill her kids. Had they lived, they would have been one of the big beneficiary of the German economic miracle.