An incredible article Jake whose topic could not be timelier! It is as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said “there is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.” Martyr Made (real name Darryl Cooper) shouldn’t be persecuted for his views. It is absolutely true we should not portray the Allies as saints or the Axi…
An incredible article Jake whose topic could not be timelier! It is as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said “there is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.” Martyr Made (real name Darryl Cooper) shouldn’t be persecuted for his views. It is absolutely true we should not portray the Allies as saints or the Axis as cartoon-type villains. We need to see them as they really were in all their complexity to understand them and see WWII clearly. You also do a great job pointing out how those who took part in the Nazi regime did so because they believed they were doing the right thing and making the world a better place. Crazy as that sounds it’s true. The Allied powers weren’t perfect by any means. Allied soldiers committed war crimes too (albeit not anywhere near on the scale Axis soldiers did.) I will give a few examples. The War Department had to start cracking down on American soldiers for human trophy collecting in the Pacific Theater as American soldiers were taking the body parts of dead Japanese soldiers such as their skulls, ears, teeth, and testicles as trophies. Racism against Japanese people was rampant in America at that time. Wartime propaganda portrayed them with bright yellow skin, buck teeth and exaggerated facial features. There were also many cases of American soldiers shooting Japanese soldiers who had already surrendered. The bombing of the historic city of Dresden by the USAF and RAF on February 13-15, 1945, was a case of the Allies going WAY too far and 25,000 people were killed via incineration. French Moroccan Goumier soldiers surrounded the homes of German women and then brutally raped them. The Goumiers also murdered, raped and pillaged their way across the Italian countryside. Now we come to the Soviets. The Russians were on another level when it came to atrocities in wartime! Let’s not forget about the 1943 Katyn Forest Massacre where the Soviets “liquidated” the Polish intelligentsia with stunning efficiency.
An incredible article Jake whose topic could not be timelier! It is as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said “there is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.” Martyr Made (real name Darryl Cooper) shouldn’t be persecuted for his views. It is absolutely true we should not portray the Allies as saints or the Axis as cartoon-type villains. We need to see them as they really were in all their complexity to understand them and see WWII clearly. You also do a great job pointing out how those who took part in the Nazi regime did so because they believed they were doing the right thing and making the world a better place. Crazy as that sounds it’s true. The Allied powers weren’t perfect by any means. Allied soldiers committed war crimes too (albeit not anywhere near on the scale Axis soldiers did.) I will give a few examples. The War Department had to start cracking down on American soldiers for human trophy collecting in the Pacific Theater as American soldiers were taking the body parts of dead Japanese soldiers such as their skulls, ears, teeth, and testicles as trophies. Racism against Japanese people was rampant in America at that time. Wartime propaganda portrayed them with bright yellow skin, buck teeth and exaggerated facial features. There were also many cases of American soldiers shooting Japanese soldiers who had already surrendered. The bombing of the historic city of Dresden by the USAF and RAF on February 13-15, 1945, was a case of the Allies going WAY too far and 25,000 people were killed via incineration. French Moroccan Goumier soldiers surrounded the homes of German women and then brutally raped them. The Goumiers also murdered, raped and pillaged their way across the Italian countryside. Now we come to the Soviets. The Russians were on another level when it came to atrocities in wartime! Let’s not forget about the 1943 Katyn Forest Massacre where the Soviets “liquidated” the Polish intelligentsia with stunning efficiency.
You know a lot more about the details of the war than I do! Very interesting.