spin_dry Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 I’m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soeaster Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 I visited Dachau in 1988 when I was a teenager. I walked through the front gate, the gas chamber, and I walked passed the ovens. I saw the pictures and the film and learned what happened there. I saw the belongings that were still there from the "prisoners". This seems like another instance of applying a modern day lens to something that happened in a war where ALL experienced brutality never seen before, or since. Making judgements without the context of those who were actually there and what they experienced before and after Dachau, is just another misplaced effort to show someone's "superior morality" nearly 80 years after it happened. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Crappie Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 Oh well...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toslow Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 EYE for an EYE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted September 5, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 5, 2023 Jesus only Spin would post something like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 1 hour ago, Highmark said: Jesus only Spin would post something like this. Not a word about the 40,000 who the guards killed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spin_dry Posted September 5, 2023 Author Share Posted September 5, 2023 3 hours ago, toslow said: EYE for an EYE Exactly. I’m surprised every guard wasn’t shot. They rightfully deserved it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 Many of the guards tried to pass themselves off as inmates. Automatic classification as a spy and the accepted punishment was death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anler Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 Cant leave any witnesses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spin_dry Posted September 5, 2023 Author Share Posted September 5, 2023 3 hours ago, Snake said: Many of the guards tried to pass themselves off as inmates. Automatic classification as a spy and the accepted punishment was death. I’d say that those young American soldiers displayed amazing restraint. Especially after witnessing what was found in the rail cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted September 5, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 5, 2023 Impossible to know how one would react unless you were an 18-20 YO GI and thrust into that situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spin_dry Posted September 5, 2023 Author Share Posted September 5, 2023 37 minutes ago, Highmark said: Impossible to know how one would react unless you were an 18-20 YO GI and thrust into that situation. It’s not impossible at all. History has shown that they practiced tremendous restraint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voodoo Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 Sympathy......for the guards at Dachau? We have truly lost our minds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crnr2Crnr Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 6 hours ago, Snake said: as a student of WW2 history and having seen this before... fuck 'em. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICG Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 I'm a kind humanitarian, with bad eye sight.... I would not have seen the prisoners go near the guards... And, I was given a commission at 22. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crnr2Crnr Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Arbeit macht frei Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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