Originally posted by no1marauderWell the same could be said of the French since the Germans opted not to fight at the Maginot Line, however I was really referring to the Czech resistance which began in '38. The Czech resistance was not as active at blowing things up, but was more of an information pipeline to the allies. It was also the annexation of the Sudetenland that gave the Germans the Skoda Works where the Panzer Tanks were manufactured.
Since the Czechs opted not to fight, you can hardly call the bloodless seizure of the Sudetenland a "war".
Originally posted by AmauroteI'm quite sure he does know how language resonates and was addressing his comments to an audience that probably isn't very concerned about the historical Holocaust but is concerned about the present condition of the Palestinians. Not knowing Farsi I don't know whether the word "myth" is a precise translation; myth in English generally means something that isn't true at all though it may have a few factual elements built in. Sometimes in translating from one language to another it isn't possible to use a word that translates meaning exactly as the user intended when speaking in his native language. At any rate, if he was seriously disputing the factual occurrence of the Holocaust he is wrong but I still think it's a mountain out of a mole hill.
It is quite possible that you're right, marauder, the first part of the quote is admittedly ambiguous, but while confessing my ignorance of Farsi and its legion of nuances, I think it's significant that Al Jazeera (who presumably have few difficulties translating Middle Eastern languages into English) themselves begin their editorial lead with the emphatic ...[text shortened]... too astute a politician not to understand how the use of this kind of language resonates.
http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2006/01/iran-tehran-issues-new-threat-to.html
The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, who is also the man behind Iran's foreign policy, has warned Europeans "not to force the Islamic Republic to cut short the dialogue process and to opt for another scenario". Speaking on Tuesday night on state television he said: "We are for a strategy based on dialogue, but if the counterparty Europe plays dirty, then we will pass onto another plan that we have worked out and then there will be problems for the Europeans."
Without specifying the nature of the other plan and the other scenario, Larijani has compared the talks on Iran's nuclear programme to a chess game.
"In this game, we are for a result that will be satisfactory to both Iran and Europe," said Larijani adding that "if we lose, the same will also happen to the other party (Europe) and they will have to prepare themselves to live in a hell."
But Larijani used even stronger words for the United States. "A small error on the part of USA or the Zionists will be enough to induce us to unleash hell," said Larijani. "They know this very well and for this they haven't gone further than a verbal or psychological war," he said.
Larijani also reiterated how Tehran "does not have any intension of renouncing its cycle of producing nuclear fuel."
"For our requirements we do not intend to trust even our friends," he said, stressing Iran's right to "advance the research in all the areas of the nuclear sector."
"To start the research and study, does not always signify establishing an atomic programme," said Larijani.
Referring to the Russian proposal to conduct the necessary uranium enrichment in Russian nuclear plants for the purposes of Iranian use, Larijani called the proposal "unsatisfactory".
"We are not disposed to imposing someone else's [proposal], but to find a neutral and constructive proposal," he said.
Originally posted by slimjimI don't care when Japan surrendered- my question was how many days from the beggining of Germany to the end of Germany.
The war started with the invasion of Poland in Sept. 1939 unless you consider the invasion of China by Japan in July in 1937 as some historians do as the start of WWII. It ended on Sept 1945 with the surrender of Japan. Germany surrendered two months earlier.
Originally posted by slimjimi vote july 1937 ...
The war started with the invasion of Poland in Sept. 1939 unless you consider the invasion of China by Japan in July in 1937 as some historians do as the start of WWII. It ended on Sept 1945 with the surrender of Japan. Germany surrendered two months earlier.