Thread: I didn't know Australians fought in WW1
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Old 11-06-2008, 11:13 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by morse1001 View Post
I was reminded of an incident during a german histiry seminar at Uni. We had a chap who boasted that he had A level History. The topic that we were discussing was why did germany not invade Britian.

I said that after july 1941, Hitler had other things on his mind. This guy asked me what they were, I asked him, "What had happened in Germany" He said "he did not know" , I gave him a clue "Operation Barrbarosa"! "What was that" came the reply
The "A" probably stood for America and as they were not in the war yet, there was nothing to know/learn.
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 What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
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