Posted on 06/30/2013 4:03:25 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
The NY Times is a snide rag of a newspaper, that’s a given. The idea of using the term ‘’Polish Death Camps’’ is an insult as far as I’m concerned and I’m puzzled by it. As if the defeated Polish nation had any choice about what the Germans did in Poland. The Second World War was the single greatest, life altering event in mankind’s existence on this planet. From the cauldron of a prior war, chock full of wounded national pride, triumphant national hubris, ethnic and political grievances, old hatreds reborn, new ones made, the rise of totalitarian regimes , the deluding narcotic of appeasement by the Western Powers and finally one charismatic, shrieking Austrian gutter snipe to light the fuse, it exploded into a six year cataclysm humanity barely survived. It’s two central and horrifying realities were the Holocaust and the Atom Bomb. WW2 changed the way we all will live. Forever. And while our allies of that time did their part to defeat the Axis Powers, it was The United States and the men and women of “The Greatest Generation’’ who saved the world.I’m proud to say members of my own family, now deceased, did their part. The older I get the more I realize the enormity of the war itself and the mortal danger civilization faced at that time. And the more grateful I am of the American people of that time who didn’t shrink from their duty, They saw their duty and they did it. I’ll never forget what I heard an old WW2 vet say as to how and why America won WW2. ‘’America won the Second World War’’ he said simply, ‘’Because we are a free people’’. To me, that’s a powerful statement.
Thank for this picture and the facts behind it. I’ve never known of this man or had never seen this photo. This is right up there with the Chinese man facing down those tanks. Herr Landmesser had big ones for sure. God bless him.
An earlier FR thread ...
(PHOTO) Man Refuses to Perform Nazi Salute, 1936 - Hamburg, Germany
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2982249/posts
He couldn’t have read Rand.
Thanks for the pic, DogByte6RER
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