Re: [Marxism] With apologies to Paul Verhoeven

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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

Look, my father fought in the Battle of the Bulge. In Dec. 1944 to Jan. 
1945, there were more than 81,000 American casualties, including 19,000 
killed. It is hard for me to visualize allied soldiers standing around 
with the arms crossed when Nazi soldiers remain in uniform and armed 
after they have been effectively defeated. I understand that the allies 
used Nazi assets after WWII but this was done fairly discreetly. The 
idea of Nazis in the Netherlands executing deserters (the 2 men were 
reputedly had defected to the anti-Nazi resistance) shocks even me.

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