“The Outsider” - Decades before ‘Flags of our Fathers’ this 1961 film follows Ira Hayes from basic training, to Iwo Jima, and the years following the war. Gain an appreciation of Ira’s demise as survivor’s guilt is thrust into the hero’s spotlight.
Hidden Gem: One of the best accounts of just how happenstance the second flag raising was.
Can anyone tell me why…..
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was hitlers invasion of the soviet union code named “barbarossa”?
why on earth would they knowingly give the biggest operation undertaken by the german army the codename which is the name of an byzantine emperor who drown while swimming in a creek on his way to leading his army to jerusalem.
wouldn’t they consider that bad luck? i mean, they were basically launching a crusade to moscow themselves. and look, they wound up short themselves, drowning metaphorically on the banks of the volga.
not a big deal, i was just wondering.
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was hitlers invasion of the soviet union code named “barbarossa”?
why on earth would they knowingly give the biggest operation undertaken by the german army the codename which is the name of an byzantine emperor who drown while swimming in a creek on his way to leading his army to jerusalem.
wouldn’t they consider that bad luck? i mean, they were basically launching a crusade to moscow themselves. and look, they wound up short themselves, drowning metaphorically on the banks of the volga.
Well Barbarossa was 1) a German 2) led an invasion against an “evil” empire in the East.
That’s about it. Reasoned decision making was not Hitler’s strong point.
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Frederick Barbarossa was one of the greatest hero’s in German History. He was Hitlers personal hero. He successfully protected the feudal states of Germany from foreign invasions and established the first German Reich. His zealous personality was of vital influence to the crusades against Muslims in the middle ages. Hitler viewed his activities in the Soviet Union as another modern crusade against communism, so he felt the analogy fitted to his operations in Russia.
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