Re: [Marxism] With apologies to Paul Verhoeven

["NÃstor Gorojovsky" <nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx>]

A fascinating anecdote. It sums up, in a few seconds, the actual
intervention of USA in Europe during WWII.

2007/9/28, 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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