World War II (Two...)
Seems funny to be still arguing over WW II doesn't it? Well, some of us are still crabbing over the American Civil War. Yep, if you are from South Carolina, I know people who will address the subject in mixed company - that means with "Northerners" present - as the " War of Northern agression."
No kidding. I heard it, I was there. And, less than two hours drive is Fort Sumter, a Union Fort that attacked by Southern forces that kicked off the Civil War. Oh well.
To World War II: I docent in an aviation Museum revolving around a heavy super fortress bomber that saved us in WW II. It sits here in Tucson. I speak to many individuals and families from all over Europe, a lot of them from Germany. Many of them, born after the war.
A lot of them will say or hint, " I know nothing of the history of the war." And ask me to fill them in from our side of the coin. I do so, as gently and as non judgementally as I can. One young German family with small children asked me, " Why did you bomb Dresden? You killed many civilians."
I reminded them we did so in Berlin as well, then reviewed history of the early part of the war where German forces relentlessly bombed London with Henckles, Dorniers and V bombs which dropped endlessly, willy-nilly anywhere killing men, old women, scores of children often schools.
Our object in Dresden were whatever targets of opportunity we could find, LATE in the war. German military had yet to justify the wholesale slaughter of defenseless citizens killed in slave labor camps, over 700 in four countries and the execution of a half million Russian soldiers.
I asked him if his teachers back in German had broached that subject in class as yet. He told me, "not yet." His mother and father were both German School teachers who were traveling America to gather information on our country to include it in their school plans about the United States to teach German kids about our way of life.
The mother summed it up by saying, Thank God it's all over, it's past now, behind us. We all can live in peace.
I wondered about that. Her little boy. not yet ten, knew about Dresden and asked questions about our attack as if we commited a sin. He was not yet briefed in class as to the history of De Feuherer and the blood on Hitler's hands and the hypnotized nation that blindly followed him. His mother told me, that all those people that just " signed up to go " had no choice.
She lied. Viewing the films of the crowds who adored their leader, you look into the eyes of the women, they are captivated by Hitler, swooning in delight, reading to follow his command: have children, have blonde haired, blue eyed Ayrian children was his order to the women, the throngs who crowded the streets in Berlin. There were reports of masses of under aged children becoming pregnant back then, anything for Der Fuehrer.
They had a choice, all of them. You can see it in the films. They flocked to Hitler, the S.S., the brown shirts, all of them. The nonsense the German families still believe in is B.S. They are either telling lies, or telling themselves lies.
I don't trust them
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No kidding. I heard it, I was there. And, less than two hours drive is Fort Sumter, a Union Fort that attacked by Southern forces that kicked off the Civil War. Oh well.
To World War II: I docent in an aviation Museum revolving around a heavy super fortress bomber that saved us in WW II. It sits here in Tucson. I speak to many individuals and families from all over Europe, a lot of them from Germany. Many of them, born after the war.
A lot of them will say or hint, " I know nothing of the history of the war." And ask me to fill them in from our side of the coin. I do so, as gently and as non judgementally as I can. One young German family with small children asked me, " Why did you bomb Dresden? You killed many civilians."
I reminded them we did so in Berlin as well, then reviewed history of the early part of the war where German forces relentlessly bombed London with Henckles, Dorniers and V bombs which dropped endlessly, willy-nilly anywhere killing men, old women, scores of children often schools.
Our object in Dresden were whatever targets of opportunity we could find, LATE in the war. German military had yet to justify the wholesale slaughter of defenseless citizens killed in slave labor camps, over 700 in four countries and the execution of a half million Russian soldiers.
I asked him if his teachers back in German had broached that subject in class as yet. He told me, "not yet." His mother and father were both German School teachers who were traveling America to gather information on our country to include it in their school plans about the United States to teach German kids about our way of life.
The mother summed it up by saying, Thank God it's all over, it's past now, behind us. We all can live in peace.
I wondered about that. Her little boy. not yet ten, knew about Dresden and asked questions about our attack as if we commited a sin. He was not yet briefed in class as to the history of De Feuherer and the blood on Hitler's hands and the hypnotized nation that blindly followed him. His mother told me, that all those people that just " signed up to go " had no choice.
She lied. Viewing the films of the crowds who adored their leader, you look into the eyes of the women, they are captivated by Hitler, swooning in delight, reading to follow his command: have children, have blonde haired, blue eyed Ayrian children was his order to the women, the throngs who crowded the streets in Berlin. There were reports of masses of under aged children becoming pregnant back then, anything for Der Fuehrer.
They had a choice, all of them. You can see it in the films. They flocked to Hitler, the S.S., the brown shirts, all of them. The nonsense the German families still believe in is B.S. They are either telling lies, or telling themselves lies.
I don't trust them
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