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joerookery
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Very cool article
James
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joerookery
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What a disjointed piece of work.
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Peter_Suciu
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I guess if I was the "heir" to the throne I'd want the monarchy reinstated too! That said I have a drop of royal blood and looked into what it would take to get my Romanian title back - given that there appears to be no other contenders. Probably just a $250,000 in "fees" or so. I think I can live without it, besides it would to my father first anyway.
As for the restoration thing... this reminds me of how I've heard Third Reich collectors bemoan that Germany doesn't have grand military parades. My feeling is that as long as there is an American WWII vet alive who fought the Nazis there should be no parades in Germany. And as I've said before... In America we have parades when we WIN something! I'll stand by that... when Germany wins something they can have a parade and the Kaiser back. Until then... :-"
As for the restoration thing... this reminds me of how I've heard Third Reich collectors bemoan that Germany doesn't have grand military parades. My feeling is that as long as there is an American WWII vet alive who fought the Nazis there should be no parades in Germany. And as I've said before... In America we have parades when we WIN something! I'll stand by that... when Germany wins something they can have a parade and the Kaiser back. Until then... :-"
The story of the Kaiser paroling a POW to visit his dieing mother was interesting, but not uncommon. Reading period accounts of British POWs, they often tell of being granted parole, that is they were allowed to leave the prison camp, for various reasons, provided they promise to return, there were apearently very few cases of breaking parole, as it was a great oppertunity for the POWs to work out escape plans. Parole was so common that one British POW wrote that German subjects were not allarmed to see British soldiers unaccompanied in Germany.
This was also fairly common in the US during WWII, there was a POW camp near here, and a fellow who was a boy at the time of the war tellin about a US camp guard asking a German POW to take over guarding the other POWs, and giving him is rifle. My mother also tells of picking up POWs where she grew up, to do field work, turning a group of German POWs over to a 15 year old girl hand to show some confidence in the integrity of the POWs.
This was also fairly common in the US during WWII, there was a POW camp near here, and a fellow who was a boy at the time of the war tellin about a US camp guard asking a German POW to take over guarding the other POWs, and giving him is rifle. My mother also tells of picking up POWs where she grew up, to do field work, turning a group of German POWs over to a 15 year old girl hand to show some confidence in the integrity of the POWs.