Wednesday's presentations were well done. It seems like as we get closer to the end of the war, the endurance level of the allies is increasing. The Battle of Monte Cristo is a good example of this. There were four separate battles involved and the allies fought hard in every one of them. They didn't give up even though they were beat back a couple of times. Their growth as soldiers is becoming more and more evident as the semester goes on. Even though I lived in Germany for a while and have seen the differences in cities that were destroyed in the war and cities that were not destroyed, I was still surprised to hear about the destruction of the abbey. This war really was devestating because the world not only lost a huge number of people but also, a lot of art was destroyed or went missing.
In a couple different lectures and presentations it was been said that, sometimes POW's were used to fight for the opposite side. Was there ever a problem with this? Did the Italians, for example, willingly fight for the allies after they surrendered?
I love how well operation overlord worked. The deception that the allies used worked very well and was well planned.
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it does seem a little odd that a 6th century abbey would be destroyed, but then again it was war
through out the war there was was an effort (with monte cassino and some other locations being an exception) to spare religious places from destruction, which may bring to mind how undamaged rome was
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