Posted on 04/10/2017 11:54:08 AM PDT by nickcarraway
On the day the Nazis ambushed his guerrilla camp in the dark forests outside Vilna, Benjamin Levin could feel the gunshots whizzing past.
One of his comrades fell, and Levin grabbed him by the leg and dragged him from behind, looking for an escape. Blood-splattered, heart pounding, the Jewish resistance fighter ran straight into “a hurricane of bullets” and kept running until he could no longer hear them.
He doesn’t know how he made it out alive, but offers one explanation: At just 14 years old, he was so short, the bullets went right over his head.
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The movie Inglorious Bastards was REAL??
A real Medal Of FREEDOM recipient he is!!!
Thank you for posting.
It is an honor to read of such men and women.
“Although Levin’s parents survived the war in hiding, they were executed by their Lithuanian neighbors when they tried to reclaim the family’s old home in Vilna.”
Surviving the war only to be executed by your neighbors?
No words....
Gorka’s father was tortured by the Nazis and the subsequent communists IN THE SAME BUILDING.
Then, they left the country.
Karma.
His merry band of guerillas shot unarmed POWs and those Lithuanians suspected of working for the Germans. They killed lots of inncocient people.
You would also think they would have shown up to reclaim their house and property armed to the teeth with a few new communist buddies.
The dirty secret is that Communists wanted a wedge driven between Jews and Gentiles, it’s called “divide and conquer”.
“His merry band of guerillas shot unarmed POWs...”
Prisoners are a huge liability. You have to feed them and food is precious. You waste manpower having to guard them. If they escape they will try to kill you or they will get back across their lines and tell where you are hiding and send others to kill you.
War is hell and people die. You must try not to let it be you.
And no one except a real hypocrite would expect them to fight according to the Queensberry rules as their folks were being slaughtered in the tens of thousands, and not only by the Nazis....
Guerillas are not afforded protection by the Geneva protocols, and likewise are not bound by them. Every time a Jew or Lithuanian that killed a Nazi or a Russian, he made the world a better place.
So basically they had to become Nazis in order to defeat the Nazis.
Great logic you got there.
And my bet his parents were killed by a family member who lost a brother or son by their vigilante killing of an innocent.
Karma works both ways...and by your twisted logic totally defensible.
Most of my relatives who stayed in Hungary (Czechoslovakia) were victims of the Holocaust. Some survived, most didn’t, including my great grandfather, Isaac Jacob Welber, and my great grandmother, Sarah Welber.
One cousin was improbably captured by the Russians, who recruited him into Czech army units under General Svoboda, and he fought the Germans. He often talked about his experiences in that army, but I only once heard him talk about an actual combat experience.
Did you even read your own post?
German POWs are in uniform. They get Geneva Convention protections.
Guerillas are not uniform. They get no protection.
At least try to think before you post.
> Prisoners are a huge liability. <
An older friend of the family was with the U.S. Army in Italy during WW II. He told us that during the final drive (in 1945) to the Po River his unit didn’t take any prisoners. It would have slowed them down, and escorting prisoners to the rear drained men away from the front.
Did his unit commit a war crime? You bet. But he made the argument that if his unit slowed down, the neighboring unit could have been outflanked. His commander decided not to take that risk.
I’m not defending that unit’s actions. Just passing along the story.
Umm, you seem to be agreeing with me. He was a guerilla. He gave no quarter, and was granted none.
Let me repeat: every single time a Jew or a Lithuanian killed a Russian or a Nazi the world became a better place.
Remember the ending of Schindler’s List....
Russian officer: You have been liberated by the Soviet army!
Itzhak Stern: Have you been in Poland?
Russian officer: I just came from Poland.
Itzhak Stern: Are there any Jews left?
Michael Lemper: Where should we go?
Russian officer: Don’t go east, that’s for sure. They hate you there. I wouldn’t go west either, if I were you.
You should write a book with these excellent thoughts and call it “My Struggle”
Any story about this period must be met with a large amount of skepticism. There were no “good guys.”
And then you had Bandera and his Ukrainians, who slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Poles.
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