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In Reply to: RE: "Stalingrad," a film of the battle from the German side. The problem posted by tinear on October 19, 2008 at 14:07:31
My uncle died in Stalingrad and I can assure you he was not bloodthirsty!
You can read his last letter to his wife, in the book " Stalingrad ".
Yes a Schinken.
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
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People with deformities or other visible imperfections (dwarfs, midgets), gays, gypsies, and Jews were already being segregated. This was NO secret to the German people and ugly rumors commonly circulated about the fate these people faced or already had met.
The idea that men innocently don a uniform and just go off to war is a silly excuse. Before the US committed hundreds of thousands of soldiers to Vietnam, there were Senate hearings ('63), led by Senator Fullbright, which exposed the impiousness of the regime we were trying to keep in power.
When one goes off to kill, it is imperative upon the individual to know why he is doing so.
Of course they would rabidly embrace the notion of a strong nation retaking its rightful place in the world. Oppresssion has a strong rebound.
Does that explain your aversion(/fear?) of "non-whites" ?
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Questioning authority was not on their minds, unlike what happened here beginning in the 60s.
You forgot the main part.
The politics where the first to get it. And it was first created for them, socialist, communist...
of course it is not a silly excuse.
Not all soldiers were intellectuals.
They did, many did, what they had to.
And if you did not you were put away.
my father did the underground, his brother the army.
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
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