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Old February 25th 04, 07:10 PM
Krztalizer
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In the entire time I've been at RAM (6 years)I've posted a lot of
photos and designs of extremely rare aircraft.


....in the context of "look at how great and wonderful the Nazi wartime aviation
industry was!" - that is certainly going to limit your audience.

I'm willing to bet that
many of the regulars here don't like that because it ruins their
beliefs that the US invented everything in aviation.


That's a bet you'll lose. What many regulars object to is your attitude that
America owes its current superiority to "stolen" Nazi-era technology - the
Nazis looted every country they brutally attacked and subjegated, so if you
have any complaints about the way your country was treated, go back in time and
complain to that little Austrian housepainter, not us.

It must really
bug them when the US Govt. has to steal, pressure, borrow, or buy
foreign tech to maintain the cutting edge (which it doesn't possess in
all areas).


No, what really bugs us is that you pretend that the Nazis created all of those
ideas out of whole cloth, without taking advantage of work being conducted in
other nations. _Everyone_ used advances that came from everyone else. If
Germany's technological superiority was so fragile and fleeting, perhaps AH
should have been content with the living room that he already had, and not
declared war on folks who knew how to crush his precious forces and hang their
most secret projects on the walls of our museums like so many mounted
butterflies.

Be proud of your country's accomplishments, but when you start to get cocky
about the past, it always comes back to this: due to Nazi stupidity, we are
having this conversation in English.

Gordon

====(A+C====
USN SAR

Donate your memories - write a note on the back and send your old photos to a
reputable museum, don't take them with you when you're gone.