In the second day of the World War II German Counter Offensive (known as the Battle of the Bulge) elements of the 1st SS Panzer Division moving through Belgium captured and subsequently killed nearly 80 US prisoners of war. Victims of the "Malmedy Massacre" were left unattended under a shroud of new-fallen snow for weeks until mortuary affairs troops could arrive. During the week of 13-18 January 1945 the 4th Platoon, 3060th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company set up a collection point nearby and carefully combed the killing fields for remains and personal effects. In the end, despite the almost complete absence of dog tags, 100 percent of the victims recovered were positively identified, and buried with all due honor -- as befitted United States soldiers who paid the ultimate price in the name of freedom. |
First I thought it was "Peiper" (sounds like apple "Pie-per") then "Pieper" (sounds like "peep-er"). Looks from the photos that the first is correct.
Malmedy was rough, but the Pacific was much worse. Myself, an American not killed is a good deal if the price is a hundred of the the other guys. A thousand.
I spent some years growing up in Japan, 1954 to '58. Smoochy huggy kissy would not have got the job done.
Speaking of today's politics, notice that the Chinese are still afraid of the Japanese. Hmmm.
Sad story.
Was it not the Germans who signed the friendship treaty with the Soviets in 1939?
Was it not the intent of these two beasts to divide the world and feast upon its carcass?
I submit:
It may be worth adding that in keeping with the terms of the German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty, the Soviet government also pledged to actively support and did actively support the German war effort against Poland and the West. This support took many forms: the breaking of the British blockade of Germany, the permission to establish German navy bases in the USSR, the allowance for the passage over Soviet territory of raw materials bound for Germany from other nations, and the supplying of goods such as food, cattle, cotton, phosphates, chromium and iron ore, platinum, zinc, rubber, flax, lumber and oil directly to Germany. Each month, for the duration of the Soviet-German alliance, 200-300 Soviet trains carried these goods into the heart of the Third Reich.
Then in June 1941 Hitler sought to lead the Germans in the conquest of their ally in Operation Barbarossa.
What might be treachery to the quaint West was to these business as usual.
Wholesale butchery of unarmed civilians was the German stock in trade. Now with the trial over the Malmedy affair comes the chorus of Greek women beating their breasts.
In the extant article mention is made of the execrable David Irving:
Today, there are also "deniers" such as disgraced historian, David Irving, who claim that there was no massacre at all, and that these American soldiers were killed in a battle with the Germans which took place at the crossroads.
Malmedy is not the only inconvenient fact David Irving denies.
Historian David Irving, who has been vilified for questioning whether 6m Jews were killed by the Nazis, sued an American academic for claiming that he is a 'Hitler partisan' who twists history to cast the German dictator in a better light. He lost his case - find out why here.
What's past is prologue: the Grand Mufti that great groupie of Hitler gave way to nephew Arafat--the most welcome of all Bill Clinton's house guests, while wife Suha got Butch's smooch after uttering the blood libel.
Harmonizing with the bleating o'er "mistreating" of Malmedy prisoners is the never-ending shrieking over panties-on-the-head of the pobrecitos del abu Ghraib.
Earlier this year Sean Hannity received a call from a lieutenant who led a patrol to investigate the rape and knifing of three Iraqi girls ages 8, 10, and 13.
The perp was sleeping it off when the patrol took him to--drum roll--abu Ghraib.
World's tiniest violin plays melancholy dirges for such as this POS and the Malmedy contingent of the Thousand-Year Retch.
Here's to the new year which will see the end of that Islamic obscenity which has been the premier state sponsor of terrorism.