Yes JenEllen - Rimmer is the Hammond Organ fan and collector of telegraph pole pictures.

Cranky - full marks for getting your British war history correct, but I think you had better go and read 'A town like Alice'. The Japanese did not have to torture their own people, their culture did it for them - witness the degredation of the man who had to guard the women prisoners in the book - it was a form of punishment and the guard suffered for it as much as if you had made him one of the prisoners. He was without honour, and that is the worst you could do to a proud soldier of the Empire. That is also why so many officers committed suicide, rather than be captured or surrender. To submit to people they saw as a sub-species was so against their honourable upbringing that they could not submit, but would die with dignity at their own hands, thus saving face where they could.

As for Hitler, he loved Austria, was Austrian by birth and Germany has always had a love/hate relationship with them. Hitler wanted to turn Germany into Austria, making it a pastoral haven and a cultural leader. To do this, the old Germany had to be eradicated. Almost all of 'Mein Kampf' is about this struggle for a new world. But only at the expense of everyone else.

And today's useless information: the German national anthem goes to a tune called 'Austria'.....

LTS