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To: quidnunc

The Germans insist they are victims for the exact same reasons as the Islamofascists insist they are victims of the Palestine mess. (Truman's Palestine mess). Both need to look in the mirror and move on.


25 posted on 06/07/2004 3:38:55 AM PDT by tkathy (nihilism: absolute destructiveness toward the world at large and oneself)
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To: tkathy

Of course the average German troops were not responsible for their leaders crimes. Nobody would call Rommel a war criminal, because he wasn´t. But he too was so controlled by the Nazis, that he had nothing to decide. Soldiers in Germany were not even allowed to vote in the Weimar Republic, they were merely receiving orders. It was not the duty to refuse orders if they mean a crime, unlike today. And what would you say about the men who drafted men with the age of 17,18,19, 20 who died then - and have never had the chance to express their opposition against the regime? I say these boys were victims of Hitler, mislead in a war "to defend the fatherland", but actually it was vice versa. I´m sure noone had picked up the gun against the Brits, Americans, French, Canadians if 1. they had known what Hitler did in the East, 2. not a Nazi official had threatened to shoot them if they did not and 3. had known that after Hitlers defeat both sides realized that the enemy is in the East.


27 posted on 06/07/2004 4:08:55 AM PDT by Michael81Dus ( WE NEED MORE FREEDOM, NOT LESS!)
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