Re: [Marxism] With apologies to Paul Verhoeven

[Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect schrieb:

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> 
> Verhoeven portrays the Nazi army as remaining in uniform and in arms 
> under allied occupation, something that seemed far-fetched to me to 
> begin with. But I slapped my head and say “Unbelievable” under my breath 
> after what happened next. Müntze is recognized by a Nazi officer and 
> arrested. After a Nazi court martial finds him guilty of desertion, he 
> is shot by a firing squad. While I was aware of ex-Nazi officers being 
> used against the USSR after the war ended, I had never heard about such 
> an unlikely scenario. After nearly 5 years of brutal fighting, why would 
> the allies allow the Nazis to retain such power?
> 
> It turns out that Verhoeven was right. This did happen.
> 
Deserters and others convicted by Wehrmacht courts still haven't been 
fully rehabilitated in Germany. So I find nothing at all surprising in 
the story you recount.

We should also remember that around teh same time the British armed 
Japanese troops after their surrender in order to suppress the 
Vietnamese resistance movement. Similar things happened in Greece where 
the British allied with the pro-German collaborators in order to 
suppress EAM/ELAS the Communist-led resistance movement.

Einde O'Callaghan

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