Re: [Marxism] With apologies to Paul Verhoeven

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

At the age of eighteen my father was a tower guard/sharpshooter at  
the prison where the Nazi war criminals were held during their trials  
in Nuremberg. The local population was decidedly hostile to the  
occupying presence of allied troops there. According to my father,  
some US soldiers were killed by locals, and jeeps drove with rigged  
cable splicers on the front of their vehicles to cut wire strung up  
across the roads, meant for their necks.  One evening he was walking  
back to their quarters after a night out on the town and he felt he  
was being followed. Pretty soon he was running down the street with  
three Germans in pursuit. As he rounded a corner he practically ran  
into some Polish soldiers, to whom my father quickly mimicked the  
situation. The Polish soldiers took off after the Germans, while my  
father kept running in the other direction. He said he never knew  
what transpired after, but he did hear gunfire.

Greg McDonald



Louis Proyect wrote,

 > 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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