[Marxism] Army finally admits coverup of Nazi treatment of US soldiers as slaves

["Andrew Pollack" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Note the soldiers were either Jews or "looked like Jews," including
Anthony Acevedo who is quoted in the story.
Now the general reason why the Army wouldn't care about these soldiers
is obvious, and fits with the fact that it wasn't a war against
fascism, that the same Army refused to bomb Auschwitz, that it
discriminated against Black and Latino soldiers and sent them on
certain-death missions, etc., etc.
But here's my question: what is the specific reaction to admission of
this event that the Army was hoping to forestall?
Andy P.
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BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- The U.S. Army says it will honor the
"heroism and sacrifice" of 350 U.S. soldiers who were held as slaves
by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Bernard "Jack" Vogel died in a Nazi slave camp in the arms of fellow
U.S. soldier, Anthony Acevedo, in 1945.

The decision by the Army effectively reverses decades of silence about
what the soldiers endured in the final months of the war in 1945 at
Berga an der Elster, a subcamp of Buchenwald where soldiers were
beaten, starved, killed and forced to work in tunnels to hide German
equipment.

More than 100 U.S. soldiers died in the camp or on a forced death
march. Before they were sent back to the United States, survivors
signed a secrecy document with the U.S. government to never speak
about their captivity.

"The interests of American prisoners of war in the event of future
wars, moreover, demand that the secrets of this war be vigorously
safeguarded," the document says.

CNN last month reported the story of Anthony Acevedo, who was a
20-year-old medic when he was sent to Berga with the other soldiers.
Acevedo kept a diary that details the day-to-day events inside the
camp and lists names and prisoner numbers of men as they died or were
executed.
The Nazis separated the 350 soldiers based on being Jewish or "looking
like Jews" and sent them to the slave camp around February 8, 1945

full:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/23/slave.camp.honor/index.html

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