Bitburg
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Search complete. 17 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Bitburg".
Oct 7, 2026
Thomas777GUEST
But in Germany, this was particularly visible a tendency, an active kind of discourse.
Thomas777GUEST
What kicked off the historicist strike was, I mean, the immediate catalyst was Reagan's Bitburg speech.
Thomas777GUEST
For people who are too young to know or don't remember the D-Day anniversary, the 40th anniversary in 84, Reagan was in Europe anyway for NATO-related summit-type diplomatic activities.
Thomas777GUEST
He spoke at Bitburg, and he went out of his way to say that the Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht war dead buried there were victims of the war just as much as the Allied war dead, and they should be respected.
Thomas777GUEST
He was basically parroting what Konrad Adenauer said.
Thomas777GUEST
Adenauer, much as people on the right dislike him, I don't have many nice things to say about Adenauer, but he's a complicated figure.
Thomas777GUEST
You know, I mean, he was a lot more of a significant figure in terms of power political phenomenon and things, obviously, just because of the world situation.
Thomas777GUEST
But, you know, the narrative people, Reagan was a man that people loved to hate, you know, for the kind of permanently aggrieved opposition, you know, in America and as well as in the EU.
ThomasGUEST
But in Germany, this was particularly visible, a tendency, an active kind of discourse.
ThomasGUEST
What kicked off the historic strike was, I mean, the immediate catalyst was Reagan's Bitburg speech.
ThomasGUEST
For people who are too young to know or don't remember, the D-Day anniversary, the 40th anniversary in 84, Reagan was in Europe anyway for NATO-related summit-type diplomatic activities.
ThomasGUEST
He spoke at Bitburg, and he went out of his way to say that the Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht war dead buried there were victims of the war just as much as the Allied war dead, and they should be respected.
ThomasGUEST
He was basically parroting what Conrad Adenauer said.
ThomasGUEST
Adenauer, much as people on the right dislike him, I don't have many nice things to say about Adenauer, but he's a complicated figure.
ThomasGUEST
But this sparked this kind of whole, I mean, obviously the Reds, like the actual Reds were still like very powerful then.
ThomasGUEST
Their narrative was, well, you see that this just proves that, you know, that NATO was just a fascistic, like a reconstituted fascistic bloc that is trying to trying to halt the advance of history, you know, by, by, by military arms and the threat of nuclear war.
Dave JonesGUEST
And so I land there and in in Germany and I say, is there a hockey rink around here? And a couple people said, no, no, no.
Dave JonesGUEST
And then, like, the last person I asked, I said, yeah, I think there's a hockey rink over in Bitburg.
Dave JonesGUEST
And so I go over to Bitburg, and I just happened to go in while they were having tryouts for the Spite De Liga, which is, like, the second professional league there.
Dave JonesGUEST
And I said, can I try out? And they're like, what? I guess go talk to that person over there.
Dave JonesGUEST
So I went and talked to the GM and said, sure.
LawrenceHOST
My name is Lawrence, AKA A Punk With Toys on all the socials.
Adam ValeHOST
And we are back with Mob Land, Season 2, Episode 3, Bonzo Goes to Bitburg.
Adam ValeHOST
What the hell does that mean? Please put it in the comments, 'cause, uh, we weren't sure.
Adam ValeHOST
We looked it up, right? You looked it up.
Adam ValeHOST
Bitburg, isn't that Germany? They did not go to Germany in this episode, so don't know.
Adam ValeHOST
We thought maybe Bozo the Clown, 'cause that's what Frankie looked like when he was on that damn scooter with his helmet.
LawrenceHOST
Okay, so I'm, I'm, I'm thinking, I'm just thinking about it.
ThomasGUEST
Um, and that was remarkable because generally Reagan didn't.
ThomasGUEST
That's why, you know, the Bitburg speech, Buchanan wrote that.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Mm-hmm.
ThomasGUEST
And that wasn't just Nancy Reagan using it as an excuse to throw Patton under the bus.
ThomasGUEST
But yeah, Reagan generally didn't.
ThomasGUEST
Um...
Pete QuiñonesHOST
I remember the, uh, the Bitburg controversy as like it was yesterday.
ThomasGUEST
Yeah, and I mean, that's, we'll, we'll get into that on the next episode as, as we kind of approach Perestroika and stuff.
Robert CrouittNARRATOR
However, the Grand Adventure took a devastating turn during the brutal winter of 1944.
Robert CrouittNARRATOR
On December 25th, Christmas Day, while families back home in Taylor County were gathering for the holiday, Wade's aircraft called Clark's Little Pill took heavy fire returning from a bombing mission over Bitburg, Germany.
Robert CrouittNARRATOR
The plane went down over Luxembourg.
Robert CrouittNARRATOR
Wade fought to keep his crew safe, and because of his heroism, almost all the crew survived the crash except for his brothers in arms, Bob Davis, Wesley Myers, and himself.
Tom VeltriGUEST
Probably out of Schustenberg.
Blair BozakGUEST
Or Germany for Bitburg, Schusterberg for Netherlands.
Tom VeltriGUEST
Yeah, so anyway, they told us we couldn't land in Sweden, so we were going to land in Denmark, but it was totally zero-zero visibility, so we ended up landing in West Germany.
Tom VeltriGUEST
without the assistance of those four Swedish Viggins.
Phil SparacinoGUEST
At every American base in Germany.
Phil SparacinoGUEST
from Bitburg, Spangdalen, First and Feldbrook, you name them, there's many bases.
Phil SparacinoGUEST
It was quite an interesting assignment to travel to these bases, and every commanding officer knew that when I got there, they were going to make available the people I picked.
Phil SparacinoGUEST
to be able to go out and show them how to play soccer.