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Originally Posted by krichter33
There were over 18 million Germans who served in the Wehrmacht during the War. I guess we are supposed to believe that the majority of these men were war criminals and committed atrocities. My God! With so many murderers running around it is a wonder there were any innocent civilians left in Europe...  |
Sad to see a modern day German take this kind of tone.
As I said before we (sorry the Allies) beat them and took away their ability to make war. Had we not done so the 18 million Wehrmacht would have enabled the Nazis (and to have contributed some of their own Wehrmacht orchestrated atrocities as well) to murder all of Europe's Jews and Gypsy with a long-term goal of working to death in slavery all the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe (Poles, Slovenes, Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians Czechs - sorry if I missed any -the Nazis wouldn't have). The Nazis couldn't have done it without the Wehrmacht. The Wehrmacht would not have been victorious without the Nazis. The two are inexorably inter-wined. Sorry, what was hanging from the claws of the eagles on their hats, on their breasts on their belts ration books pay books even stamped on their socks and underwear and finally on so many, many of their graves?
Jim P.
I respect your well written and thought through post but I will not 'give it a rest' and I am not in favour of removing/airbrushing the Nazis from history, quite the opposite in fact. Nor am I a liberal, perish that thought, rather I am politically right-wing and very defiantly non-PC. You are correct in that I live in England. My mother lost ALL here childhood Friends in London's blitz. She also lost her family home and all the family possession's. The very road she was born in, in Battersea, South-London no longer exists today because of the massive destruction caused by Luftwaffe land mines. My Grandfather lost his job when the Gasworks he managed was destroyed. I could go on and on with my Fathers family wartime issues.... To this my day my country still bears the scars, financial, personal and emotional of the labour it took to crush the criminal military pride of Germany in two world wars. Compared to loses of say Russia, Poland and Yugoslavia our British deprivations were few.
I just get stirred up when I see posts by people who I believe have an secret admiration for Hitler and his ilk. On a Luftwaffe website very similar to this one a recent post was full of 'wows' and 'amazings' for a still surviving underground factory that built Me 262's at the wars end. One of the poster said he couldn't wait to go there and see what remained. If he knows that 6000 people died in building the wretched place he doesn't show it. 6000 slave labourers people like you and me. 6000 people. I didn't comment, perhaps I should?
Chris