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They have all signed documents that I now own. Working on a Kaiser Wilhelm next, then a Molotov.

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Re: What do Mussolini, Rommel, and Vittorio Emmanuel have in common?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2013, 05:53:44 PM »
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Re: What do Mussolini, Rommel, and Vittorio Emmanuel have in common?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2013, 06:02:07 PM »
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You back from your breakdown? You have a real avatar and your old sig back.  ;D

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Re: What do Mussolini, Rommel, and Vittorio Emmanuel have in common?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2013, 06:05:34 PM »
You back from your breakdown? You have a real avatar and your old sig back.  ;D
I never thought of it that way. Maybe I was begging for attention?  Maybe I was just bored of owning 90% of Getbig.

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Re: What do Mussolini, Rommel, and Vittorio Emmanuel have in common?
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2013, 06:15:50 PM »
mussolini made sure that the french were well and truly fucked before declaring war and attacking them. even then the italians still couldn't manage it and they had to call in the germans to finish the job off for 'em  ;D ;D ;D

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Re: What do Mussolini, Rommel, and Vittorio Emmanuel have in common?
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2013, 06:21:22 PM »
Word is Mussolini wanted to go back to the old Roman empire way. He even drained lakes to find ancient Roman boats and artifacts. I can see how a man of his power can be enticed to take it back to the empire days of Italy.

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Re: What do Mussolini, Rommel, and Vittorio Emmanuel have in common?
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2013, 06:30:12 PM »
 Congrats

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Re: What do Mussolini, Rommel, and Vittorio Emmanuel have in common?
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2013, 07:09:06 PM »
Congrats

Erwin Rommel was something, other 2  :P :P :P

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Re: What do Mussolini, Rommel, and Vittorio Emmanuel have in common?
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2013, 06:33:07 PM »
They have all signed documents that I now own. Working on a Kaiser Wilhelm next, then a Molotov.

You're quite the sick puppy...

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Re: What do Mussolini, Rommel, and Vittorio Emmanuel have in common?
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2013, 04:54:41 AM »
You're quite the sick puppy...
kinda cool actually.  For the fun of it.  A lot of people get into collecting all that shit.  Not my kinda thing but I get why others do.

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Re: What do Mussolini, Rommel, and Vittorio Emmanuel have in common?
« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2013, 09:14:57 PM »
kinda cool actually.  For the fun of it.  A lot of people get into collecting all that shit.  Not my kinda thing but I get why others do.

I'm just fucking with him, I'm totally interested in everything related to the Third Reich myself...

Check this out:
http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/jul/28/austrian-flap-over-bell-dedicated-hitler/?in-other-news
Austrian Flap Over Bell Dedicated To Hitler



VIENNA (AP) — Like many others in Austria's countryside, a tower bell above the red-tiled rooftops of Wolfpassing village marks the passing of each hour with an unspectacular "bong." But this bell is unique: It is embossed with a swastika and praise to Adolf Hitler.

#And unlike more visible remnants of the Nazi era, the bell was apparently overlooked by official Austria up to now.

#Ensconced in the belfry of an ancient castle where it was mounted by fans of the Nazi dictator in 1939, the bell has tolled on for nearly 80 years. It survived the defeat of Hitler's Germany, a decade of post-war Soviet occupation that saw Red Army soldiers lodge in the castle and more recent efforts by Austria's government to acknowledge the country's complicity in crimes of that era and make amends.

#Some of those efforts have focused on identifying relics of that time and ensuring they're either removed or put in historical context. As an example, officials often cite government moral and material support for the restoration of the Mauthausen concentration camp, where a museum documents atrocities for school children and other visitors.

#The Wolfpassing bell pays homage to Hitler for his 1938 annexation of Austria, a move supported back then by the vast majority of the nation's citizens. It describes Hitler as "the unifier and Fuehrer of all Germans" and says he freed the "Ostmark" — Nazi jargon for Austria — "from the yoke of suppression by foreign elements and brought it home into the Great-German Reich."

#Local historian Johannes Kammerstaetter says most villagers would have known about it. But village mayor Josef Sonnleitner asserts even the villagers had no clue until the first media reports last month on the "Fuehrerglocke," or "Fuehrer Bell."

#"Nobody cared until all this publicity," he said on the telephone. He refused a request for a longer interview, saying he was busy for the next two weeks with haying.

#In any case, the government's recent sale of the castle — with all its historical trappings — has suddenly made the bell an issue beyond the sleepy village of 1,500 people about 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Vienna.

#In a country particularly sensitive about suggestions it has not fully faced its Nazi past, officials are scrambling for explanations of why the bell apparently evaded notice for so long. They also are under pressure to justify a ruling by the government agency in charge of historic monuments that it must remain part of the castle as part of its heritage— despite the refusal of the new owner to say what he plans to do with it.

#Propagating Nazi values or praising the era is illegal in Austria. Kammerstaetter, the historian, has formally asked state prosecutors to examine whether the government's sale of the bell is a criminal offence. He says the change of ownership could constitute a case of "spreading National Socialist ideology" on the part of the government agency in charge of state-owned property

Raimund Fastenbauer, a senior official of Vienna's Jewish community, invokes other concerns, noting that other Hitler-era relics like the dictator's house of birth in the western town of Braunau have become a magnet for neo-Nazis.

#"I think the best thing would be if the bell disappeared and was buried somewhere," he says.