GRGR(6) - The Empire's Suicide

[Lars Frehse]

Hi,
Richard Romeo wrote:

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> James' post leads me to ask about the use of commonwealth soldiers,
> particularly from say, the Carribbean, and their involvement fighting for
> Britain.  Ok, I know about other "ethnics" (i.e. non-traditional whites)
> like the Gurkhas from Nepal and Indian regiments fighting the Japanese, but
> not sure vis-a-vis the germans. It would be an interesting contrast w/ how
> the african-american GIs, pilots, etc were segregated from the white GIs.>
> Also, would tie in nicely with the bit about exporting the British race
> control ideas onto the American landscape, mentioned later in GR.

As far as I know Great Britain did use Gurkha-regiments against Germany in
WWII, though I may be wrong. They were definetly in the trenches of WWI and the
germans were scared shitless by them.

Lars