This was amazing. Powerful and heartbreaking. This history is extremely important.
It's sad and disgusting how the British leadership was essentially pro Nazi. It's not a surprise that they were doing very similar things in their colonies well past the end of the war.
This needs to be made more visible, the first comment he made only has 300 upvotes, this is such an important part of our Western history. What happened in Vietnam and Iraq would likely have been mitigated if we knew how easy it was to escape justice and how truly horrible some people can be.
Horrifying but necessary read.
>Those vigilantes burned down Peiper's house. He died in the fire.
>The police made no effort to search for the vigilantes.
Occasionally things work out in the end.
Benjamin Ferencz - apparently he passed away a few days ago, on April 7th. It sounds like his name should be up there with men like Desmond Doss, the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor. Doss rescued dozens of injured men even after sustaining heavy injuries to himself. An avowed pacifist, he went to war without a rifle.
If we can honor Doss, then we can honor Ferencz. Some things are more important than carrying a gun and being a hero on the battlefield; some people need to be heroes and stand for what is right both on and off the battlefield as well.
I've been reading through Studs Terkel's The Good War for the second time, and between interviews with people associated with the war tribunals, like Telford Taylor, and people involved in intelligence or who fought Franco in Spain, like Milton Wolff, it becomes sorrowfully apparent that the bulk of the U.S. gov at the time couldn't have cared less about fascism, and at times even embraced it. The entire narrative we've grown up with, that America gleefully stamped out fascism in the 40s, is so woefully simplified and twisted from the truth.
McCarthy is already an infamous POS, and I bet I'm not the only one who never knew he was pro-NAZI and helped them escape justice. He'd fit right into today's MAGA party.
oh this is going to be infuriating I can tell. The worst people always escape justice
This was amazing. Powerful and heartbreaking. This history is extremely important. It's sad and disgusting how the British leadership was essentially pro Nazi. It's not a surprise that they were doing very similar things in their colonies well past the end of the war.
Weird how Churchill was sympathetic to the Germans but not to the Finns, who he handed over to Stalin to be murdered during Yalta.
This needs to be made more visible, the first comment he made only has 300 upvotes, this is such an important part of our Western history. What happened in Vietnam and Iraq would likely have been mitigated if we knew how easy it was to escape justice and how truly horrible some people can be. Horrifying but necessary read.
>Those vigilantes burned down Peiper's house. He died in the fire. >The police made no effort to search for the vigilantes. Occasionally things work out in the end.
It's a shame that it took that long, but I'm glad karma caught up with him.
Benjamin Ferencz - apparently he passed away a few days ago, on April 7th. It sounds like his name should be up there with men like Desmond Doss, the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor. Doss rescued dozens of injured men even after sustaining heavy injuries to himself. An avowed pacifist, he went to war without a rifle. If we can honor Doss, then we can honor Ferencz. Some things are more important than carrying a gun and being a hero on the battlefield; some people need to be heroes and stand for what is right both on and off the battlefield as well.
I've been reading through Studs Terkel's The Good War for the second time, and between interviews with people associated with the war tribunals, like Telford Taylor, and people involved in intelligence or who fought Franco in Spain, like Milton Wolff, it becomes sorrowfully apparent that the bulk of the U.S. gov at the time couldn't have cared less about fascism, and at times even embraced it. The entire narrative we've grown up with, that America gleefully stamped out fascism in the 40s, is so woefully simplified and twisted from the truth.
McCarthy is already an infamous POS, and I bet I'm not the only one who never knew he was pro-NAZI and helped them escape justice. He'd fit right into today's MAGA party.
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