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Re: Subject: Fighting qualities of Italians

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:55:03 +0100
Subject: Re: Subject: Fighting qualities of Italians


From: "Derk Groeneveld" <derk@cistron.nl>
> > Lots of people suffered terrible losses in WWI.  In
> > fact, the worst losses were (percentage-wise) suffered
> > by the Belgians.  I'd have to look up percentages.	I
> > doubt it was as high as some armies that fought
> > considerably better.

According to Keegan's history of the First World War, it was the
Serbians
who suffered the highest percentage losses

>   > As for the  Germans, that's about as  stupid a comment
> > as is humanly possible.  Germans:  Conquered Denmark,
> > Norway, Belgium, Netherlands,
>
> The Netherlands? In WW I???

I think I would know if we had conquered Norway and Denmark in WWI.
And parts of Belgium were still in Allied hands.

Greetings


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