Remember when Nazi Germany sent old men to fight a lost war against overwhelming Russian forces?

[Shermann]

There can't be enough WWII analogies in my opinion.

[still_one]

1. I believe they also sent children

[dem4decades]

2. Like when Trump sent kids back to school to win an election?

[still_one]

5. A very good analogy

[rzemanfl]

4. They did. I am almost glad a lot of kids are not in school. n/t

[Shermann]

6. Yep, many were Hitler youth

They fought and died merely to buy the upper brass enough time to escape the country.

[empedocles]

9. The uppers did well for themselves - hopefully the conspiracy net can limit that here

[sarisataka]

10. Yes, the father of our friend

Has told us of his time in the German army. He was an anti-aircraft gunner at the age of twelve.

[still_one]

11. Wow

[empedocles]

3. ghouli was my 1st thought before I opened the link

[empedocles]

7. Like when trump ordered all sorts of misfits to assemble before him

[peacebuzzard]

8. egads!!!needs a graphic warning.

Yuck. lol.

[brush]

12. Actually the nazis captured much territory at first and would've won...

if Hitler hadn't made a couple of huge mistakes. He of course thought he knew more than the generals (where have we heard that before?), and waited too long to invade Russia and got caught in the brutal Russian winter with his troops not equiped for winter warfare.

Secondly he also diverted a good part of his force south to capture Russian oil fields.

Hitler, like trump, wasn't as smart as he thought. He also halted the nazis at Dunkirk when they could've easily captured the whole British army and the war would've been over. When he halted his forces, the Brits were able to marshal every ship, boat or whatever craft that could cross the Channel and their army escaped Hitler's blunder.