[HGabor]

Larry,

Do not get me wrong: war crimes are not the centre of my interest at all. Neither time, nor intention to dig into them. But I do not understand why you say I ignore Hungarian war crimes. I think I was clear enough: “A crime is a crime regardless of the side”. I never said that it was correct what those civilians tried to do. BUT: if we ignore the other side of the coin, what some A.A.F. pilots did to civilians and some of their defenseless opponents in the air and/or on the ground, we will never be able to understand the civilians’ reaction to those captured pilots! What do you think the farmers in Texas would have done eg. to captured Japanese pilots if they reached the American mainland and started to burn down cities, strafing fellow farmers and their cattle? The answer is obvious. Only the whole picture can be understood with equal measures and standards. Bringing up the Holocaust in this topic was dangerous as well as very misleading. I have pointed out the language problem in Lt. Crawford’s story. That word in his memories is not even close in the two languages! So why should I let other people come to wrong conclusions? This is why history gets manipulated and changed over and over again. And finally: do not forget that the guy saving Lt. Crawford’s life (I mean IF this was that Iszkaszentgyorgy case in the original question) was also Hungarian. That’s all. Thanks,

Gabor