[cartan]

Germans once more proving their moral superiority to the world…

[A_perfect_lady]

What is it about Germans....??

[ansel12]

This the normal GI stuff, big deal.

[Fighting Irish]

Shhhhhhhhhh....don't tell Shakespear!

[SlowBoat407]

Just following orders?

[Caesar Soze]

a close-up of a soldier holding his penis in his left hand and the skull next to it in his right

Bush's fault. They're just emulating Skull and Bones.

[Red Badger]

Are they schocked that he was holding a skull or that he was holding his own penis?........

[2banana]

Wonder when they are going to print a photo of a partial birth abortion...?

[Bon mots]

What on earth is it with Germans?

[Bon mots]

Over the last 60 years or so, Germans have had a knack for being proudly photographed with skeletal remains and piles of bodies.

[Gingersnap]

I'm pretty sure that young soldiers have been playing around with enemy body parts for several thousand years. It may be tasteless but it's hardly shocking.

[evets]

Was it a red skull? Call Capt. America!

[Redcloak]

Alas, poor Yasim! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy."

[Map Kernow]

American soldiers in the Pacific during WW II kept the skulls of Japanese soldiers as souvenirs. Life magazine during the war published a full-page photo of an attractive blonde posing with the skull of a Japanese soldier she had been sent as a "souvenir"---the photo was presented merely as human interest, with no condemnation of the soldier's act. A Baltimore Sun article of 1943 publicized the fact that a GI's mother had asked her son fighting in the Pacific for the ear of a Japanese soldier so that she could nail it to her front door. US marines made a speciality of collecting Japanese soldiers' ears. American generals voiced concerns in their diaries about abuse of enemy remains by US troops.

There's no reason for you to single out Germans, if gathering war trophies from enemy corpses is worthy of condemnation.

US Navy lieutenant lets Japanese skull have a smoke

[No Truce With Kings]

In 1944 Life magazine ran an article about a Marine that sent his fiancee the skull of a Japanese soldier killed in the fighting over some Pacific Island.

Big full page spread -- had the smiling girl with the skull on her desk at work. I remember that the office staff had nicknamed the skull "Tojo."

The article did not disapprove, either. It ran it as an example of the healthy overexuberance of our boys oversees fighting an inhuman enemy.

[ozzymandus]

If they were French soldiers, they would have surrendered to the skull.

[Williams]

Folks, this is what liberals do. Some soldiers took some wacky photos, so the liberals say the nation's entire foreign policy should be called into question. Huh??? What the hell does one even remotely have to do with the other? If you need to punish some soldiers for a photo, go ahead. You don't abandon your foreign policy commitments.

[LZ_Bayonet]

Is this the same media that show snipers killing "LIVE" US soldiers?

[Joe 6-pack]

I'm cool with it, just as long as they didn't put panties on the skull.

[Map Kernow]

1943 Life magazine photo of woman contemplating skull of Japanese soldier sent by her fiance in the Pacific

[roaddog727]

Soldier humor. This has been around since armies were invented.

So what.

Sheesh.