Bah-humbug

John -Melb · 11-25-2003, 05:58 PM

I've just been listening to a documentary on the History Channel about Stalingrad. The narrator madesome remark about how the surrender of Paulus's Sixth Army (in Feb 43) "destroyed the myth of German invincibility"

Bah humbug.

The "myth" of German invincibility was destroyed about eighteen months before this.... at a place called Tobruk!

“The siege was only a couple of months old when the renegade Lord Haw Haw, broadcasting from Berlin, coined the description "Rats of Tobruk," and applied it to the garrison because most of its men could find shelter only underground while the bombers were overhead. Our men accepted the title with relish. To one another, they were "the rats." To the Axis they were rats with razor-sharp teeth.”

11-25-2003, 05:58 PM	#1
John -Melb User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Melbourne, Peoples Republic of Australia! Posts: 145 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Bah-humbug I've just been listening to a documentary on the History Channel about Stalingrad. The narrator madesome remark about how the surrender of Paulus's Sixth Army (in Feb 43) "destroyed the myth of German invincibility" Bah humbug. The "myth" of German invincibility was destroyed about eighteen months before this.... at a place called Tobruk! “The siege was only a couple of months old when the renegade Lord Haw Haw, broadcasting from Berlin, coined the description "Rats of Tobruk," and applied it to the garrison because most of its men could find shelter only underground while the bombers were overhead. Our men accepted the title with relish. To one another, they were "the rats." To the Axis they were rats with razor-sharp teeth.”