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And don't forget the sleepers who were trained to be insurgents in the English countryside in case the Nazis won.
They were trained in some of the particularly nasty aspects of irregular warfare... Some of the home guard's training manuals were particularly bloodthirsty, much more so than the regular army's - Joanna Bourke comments on this in her 'Intimate History of Killing'.
Some of the fascinating stuff to come out of the Sykes/Fairbairn/Applegate generation of combat instructors was the philosophy of "STAY OFF THE GROUND!". Because there, you're between the anvil beneath you and the boot-shaped hammers of you opponent and his friends and their clubs/rifle butts.
If you do go to the ground? "DO NOT GRAPPLE!" Start rolling away and try to regain your feet quickly. Grappling brings your soft, vulnerable parts into close proximity with the enemy.
And what works on Nazi works on you as well.
More vintage video, this time in 'Murrican instead of English.
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