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Kelly's Heroes

COINB0YCOINB0Y Posts: 4,505
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Love that Movie, on AMC now....they just split up the Gold....

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Interesting. While the USA returned all of the looted art works
    to the Nations from which they were looted, The USA kept all
    of the gold it recovered from Germany, to help pay for the war.
    Probably because once gold was smelted and recycled thru
    Switzerland, no one could tell where the gold came from.

    In all the world, only the Swiss made money from the horror
    of WW ll.For that I doubt that I can ever forgive them. For they
    knew exactly what they were doing and why.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • samingeorgiasamingeorgia Posts: 122
    Sweden didn't do so bad, either. Stay neutral and sell to both sides -- it's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it.
    How 'bout them DAWGs!
  • COINB0YCOINB0Y Posts: 4,505
    It is funny that when you read some of the many historical accounts of WWII, like Band of Brothers by Steven Ambrose comes to mind, looting by the foot soldier has been part of war since the dawn of time. And why not? To the Victor go the spoils of War.

    That's why I love this movie and another like it, "Three Kings" with Ice Cube and George Cooney, where the fighting man gets the Bullion.

    Today, however, we free a country like Iraq spending precious blood and money and we still pay as they sell goods to others and run a surplus!

    We have become pu**ies.

    What does a 'soldier' like us do today?

    Do we take our credit cards (before it is too late) buy up all of the gold and silver we can and skip town?

    The war against the Forgotten Man has been underway since they passed the new Bankruptcy Law (thanks Joe Biden) 2-3 years ago, anticipating this apocalypse.

    Maybe this will be our only way to loot, as well?

    Some may say "COINB0Y, you have grown cynical!"......I say.....Yes Sir, reporting for duty!
  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭
    More than a few soldiers in WWII came home with souveniers.

    Not all were trophies from dead German troops, though there was quite a bit of that.

    I had an uncle with shoeboxes of German medals, a couple of SS daggers and .......... he also snuck back a bar of gold.
    I remember last seeing it as a teenager, my best guess is that it probably weighed around 5 ounces.

    He passed many years ago and my Aunt gave me a bit of the memorabilia, medals and such. No idea what ever happened to that gold bar though.
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
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