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Show Rose (1/25/83) page 45 Mr. K Mr. R was on the verge of ·saying "yes", and his father who was a very dear, good friend of mine said "well, I don't want you to buy him a bicycle", and I said "if you 'll go half , I'll go half". So, Tile l - bough~ \ Rabbi David Teutsch a bike. --~-a/J Let me get back to something 1-1ith you. You ~~ you learned some-thing in the army about why the Jews weren't able to fight in Germany. What did you learn? An army can't fight without depth, and I'm talking geographically about depth. Well, you see, an army travels on an axis, in other words it's got a direction. You just don't have the front troops moving that way, and you don't have their supply lines and every. l.\,\ s ._,_:-. \ thing running i narallel to a front. The fron1line troops are the J • spearhead of t~e column that may go back 30 miles. That 30 miles are the sup~ly lines, that's the part through which all the supplies flow, they are bac~ed up by artillery, they are backed up by the headquarters, they are backed up by the hospital set ups •• do you follow me? Now, all that takes a given territorial depth, and that depth has to have an integrity. Now, a guy runs out of house and he runs t o the hills , and "I 'm going t o f i g ht • I ' m go 1 n g t o go underground". Well, the best he can do is -put on his pack maybe 2 days eating, and he probably left his house without a gun the way Bitler did it, and could only hope to salvage a gun or steal one or kill somebody for one ••• -f"'"='- · Who ever the counterpart was there would have to find a way to isolate a storm trooper, to kill him quickly and silently so you could get away with his weapon. Well, for people not trained for this kind of thing, to come out of a house, you know, where |