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Originally posted by lookout123
i didn't say that all germans were evil. i didn't say any germans were evil. what i said is that the german people, before anyone else, had the ability to prevent the war, that made D-Day a necessity. i think the german soldier who fought honorably should be remembered. i just don't know that normandy was the right place to have them.
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And I never said that you said all germans were evil. You are reading into my post things I did not say.
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Originally posted by lookout123
as far as the butchering? well, glad to see you get your info from the movies. i actually expected that you would have cited a few historical works to support it, but it isn't necessary.
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You did not ask for historical citings. You asked for examples of what is meant by butchering. Again you are reading into my post things I did not say.
What I did say is that German soldiers of D-Day should be part of the D-Day celebrations.
If everyone was fighting only to accomplish the mission, then why were Germans so more willing to surrender to Americans than to Russians? Both Americans and Russians were doing everything necessary to accomoplish objectives. Why was it so much better to surrender to rather than fight the Americans - when both Russians and Americans were doing same "to accomplish the mission at hand"? Did Americans have rules of war that the Russians did not?
And if there were no such rules of war, then how did those Germans who massacred captured Americans at (was it Mandalay?) during the Battle of the Bulge end up getting prosecuted? How do we prosecute someone for a rule that did not exist?