they worked in the sawmills here a bouts
Posted on 09/28/2009 7:30:33 PM PDT by BGHater
Most german POWs were drafted or be killed into the German army in WWII, not brainwashed like Islamist jihadis. This article is being used to justify letting them out of Gitmo and into mainstream U.S.
>Since President Obama’s vow to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp erupted into an entrenched debate about where to relocate the prisoners captured in the Afghanistan War, Luetchens has reflected on the “irony and parallel” of World War II POWs and Guantanamo inmates. Recently, the Senate overwhelmingly rejected providing funds to close the U.S. military prison in Cuba, saying that no community in America would want terrorism suspects in its backyard.<
There it is.
SRM will run with that agenda in order to condition us for the eventual release of all the jihadists onto our own soil.
You know it’s coming.
Agreed.
Ping to #3
I don’t think I would want the detainees from Gitmo working in our fields or around our neighbor hoods!
SMag put their dribble into the article, but as a whole this is historical in context and should remain so.
they worked in the sawmills here a bouts
“Fewer than 10 percent were hard-core ideologues, he added.”
I imagine that of the prisoners at Gitmo, fewer than 1 percent are not hard-core.
No detainees need to apply around here ... we aren’t Muslim, we don’t speak Arabic or Persian ... and we are sane.
Look at the commonalities between the German POWs and the surrounding farms and factories — Christian background, Western culture, similar ethnic background, even some common language.
There’s no parallel between German prisoners helping out on the farms of German-American Midwesterners, vs. Gitmo detainees.
I don’t think the people in the regular German army during WWII were anywhere near as crazy or individually dangerous as the Islamic radicals at Gitmo.
Not all societies are equal nor should we imply we can change their culture or would they even want what we have achieved.
The elephant in the room not discussed in the article was that the Germans were mostly Christians. Our two countries had the same religious values and historically, English narrowly edged out German as the “unofficial official” language of our country.
I used to work with a guy whose family used German POWs to work on their farm in Alabama.
I recall a few things he told me about them. One is that several of them exchanged Christmas cards or letters with the farmer for the rest of their lives.
He also said the farmer would give them a coke every day and also cigarettes as part of their pay. He said the German POWs would get Red Cross packages from Germany which contained German ersatz cigarettes. The first thing they would do when they opened the packages would be to throw the cigarettes away.
Bingo! That’s exactly what I was waiting for when I started reading the article. It didn’t take long to find the money line. Great post.
http://www.historynet.com/the-not-so-great-escape-german-pows-in-the-us-during-wwii.htm#hide
interesting story from my parts about the “great escape” from Papago Park in Phoenix.
In the 1940s we understood what a POW was. POWs are not someone who has committed a crime but rather a combatant taken off the battlefield until the war is over.
We could have the current combatants in the US now, if the left did not want to try to get them access to US courts to free them. The key differences in the 1941 to 1945 period was we had a Dim president and were on the same side at the USSR. Thus the left was content to let us hold our POWs. This would not happen to day.
No comparison at all.
Those German soldiers were mostly just kids caught up in the Nazi machine. My mother managed a PX at a large training and POW camp in Texas. She recalled how the German POWs asked permission to plant flowerbeds around her building, just happy to be out of the war. My grandfather hired them as farm laborers. These young men scared no one. They didn’t want to fight for Hitler any more than we wanted to fight against him. They bore us no ill will.
No way would any of us want to associate with Muslim jihadis — trained to hate and determined to kill us “infidels.”
I know the German’s had similar backgrounds!
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