[MD] Fortress ww2

[skutvik at online.no]

Hello again Adrie

29 Apr. you wrote:
 
>  Eben Emael (Flemish spelling) ...  etc.

Thanks a lot Adrie, I read it all with great interest. Whether the 
Belgians especially suffer from illusions I doubt, all nations wants to be 
the best and bravest (the Germans harbored the illusion of losing 
WW1 because they were "stabbed in the back")  I just find that 
particular event fascinating, not because the fortress was overrun, had 
it withstood it would have been just as monumental. What's most 
fascinating is that Europe - once the ground of so many conflicts - has 
found peace. I believe through the EU, but maybe some still greater 
historical context is behind it.      
 
> Eben-Emael, they rolled over it in a few hours, but for the Belgian
> people, the symbolic value of the fortress was enormous.

Understandably.  I just wondered why that fortress was so crucial, but I 
guess the border between Holland-Belgium-Germany and 
Luxembourg was fortified too, and more difficult for motorized attack.

> I have a very big intrest in WW2, WW1,Spanisch obduction,
> Dutch-Spanisch war, but there's little to say about Eben-Emael. Sorry
> for you.

Me too, I buy too many history magazines and documentary films.  
 
> If you are interested, I have a real story about the town "Rieme". You
> can view it on Google Earth, about 1 km from Zelzate.

Yes, very interested, send it to me, you have my E-address

> This was for the second part of your post, I will not comment on the
> first part in the public domain of the list. If you want a reply on
> that part, it wil be an omitted one , by mail and not relayed in the
> list. You have to approve this way before I do this. I am very strict
> in this. 

This intrigued me a bit, not sure if I understand, but send it along. 

Yours.

Bodvar