Downed allied pilot in Iszkaszentgyörgy Hungary in 1944

[Larry deZeng]

Thanks, D.B. My sarcastic response to Gabor was for his gratuitous injection of the “American War Criminals” theme in a thread that, up to his unsolicited and unwarranted comment, had been civil, scholarly, balanced and even polite. He is not the first to do this is a thread dealing with the air war over Hungary. His reply to my response raises even more eyebrows in that he appears to excuse Hungarian war crimes by act of omission leaving one with the impression that he either does not recognize them or he exonerates them. Yes, war crimes are unpardonable, but we should strive to keep this topic off TOCH! where it almost always develops into a flame war full of nationalistic insults. If Mr. G. wants to pursue his theme, I might suggest he do so on the War Crimes sub-forum on http://forum.axishistory.com/index.php. They have a number of threads there on this subject.

Larry