MiamaMan wrote:
“‘Warenst du in ..hausen in neuzsehnhundert vier and zwansich?’ with kind of an aggressive tone and was ushered in immediately. ”
Your father asked whether the German was at ..hausen in 1924. What a joke! Why would the guard take on an agressive tone and be ushered in for the ceremony as you claim by such an obviously stupid question.
You are shooting a lot of BS for American readers consumption who know very little what actually happened in WWII other than what they learn from Hollywood.
American and British officers shortly after WWII turned Russians who had lived for years in Europe over to Stalin under Operation Keelhaul. A considerable number of these Russians were civilians consisting of men, women, and children. Some in fact left Russia before the Soviet Union came into existence. NKVD executioners, a forerunner of the KGB, immediately had them killed when the prisoners were turned over to them in Austria. The lot of the victims at Soviet hands was clear to the officers in charge of the operation beforehand.
When will these guys be prosecuted for war crimes or “were they just following orders”? But then again that defense is valid for the Allies but not the Germans.
During the Normandy invasion June 1944 the Allied troops were ordered to take no prisoners. This order in spite of the Geneva Convetions came right from Eisenhower’s HQ. Eisenhower also ran the notorious Rhine Wiesen Lager for captured German POWs. He had them reclassified as DEFs (disarmed enemy forces) so that they would not fall under the protection of the Geneva Conventions for POWs. By this legal trick he starved to death thousands of prioners at Bad Kreuznach and other camps along the Rhine. The Red Cross was not given access to the camps. Food was not allowed in and civilians were shot at if they attempted to do otherwise.
The whole sordid story is well documented in James Bacque’s book, “Other Losses”.
When is Ike going to be branded a war criminal for this little gambit?
Obama and Wiesel recently visited Buchenwald concentration camp. That was quite a show. There was a lot of coverage about the victims of the Nazis. The NBC announcer even claimed Buchenwald under the Nazis was a death camp. Every historian has long admitted that the camp had no gas chambers. Nevertheless it is still called a death camp. What was conveniently left out by all the media circus was the victims of the Soviets our commrades in Arms who ran the camp after the war.
Buchenwald unknown to most Americans was taken over by the Russians to incarcerate Germans from the Soviet Zone of occupation. Twenty one thousand, mostly civilian, were killled at Buchenwald under Russian administration. They were deliberately murdered through violence, mistreatment, and starvation. The victims included 12 and 14 year olds accused of being Hitler youth. Even the Soviet official in charge of the concentration camps in East Germany, General Merkulov, acknowledged the severe lack of order and cleanliness, particularly at Buchenwald. In 1949 there were still 14,000 prisoners at Buchenwald.
These victims of course cannot be mentioned because they have been reduced to a second class status.
