Re: [Marxism] With apologies to Paul Verhoeven

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:02:25 +0200, Einde O'Callaghan wrote. answering 
Louis Proyect:

> > 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.

  Sure, one of the most famous political scandals of the RFG turned 
around such a case: the then prime-minister of Baden-Württemberg, Hans 
Filbinger, was denounced as a military judge, who issued death sentences 
to deserters. The one fact which was played down by the German bourgeois 
and stalinist press, is that the one death sentence for which Filbinger 
was denounced, happend in a British prison camp, under British 
supervision. 

  Of course, the bourgois imperialist armies invading Germany did not at 
all want to undermine the submission under the command of capital, but 
they wanted to inforce it. They did not reproach the Nazis with 
destroying the workers movement, but with threatening their colonial 
empires. 

> 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. 

  I don't know about Vietnam, but that surely happend in Indonesia, 
where the British troops tried to make Indonesia safe for the return of 
the Netherland colonialists. The war of liberation of Indonesia ended 
only in 1949. 

> 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.

  Well, in Greece they did really get into the footsteps of German 
occupation. The civil war which followed gave place to many horrors. And 
let's not forget the military coup of 1967 which instituted a long 
lasting military dictatorship in Greece, led by NATO generals. 


Cheers, 
L.W.



Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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