Posted on 11/11/2014 10:08:34 AM PST by Impala64ssa
Interesting
“I kinda wish they did off themselves because it seems like this man, Mr. Greenfield, has peace because he believed it was so.”
Isn’t that something of a sad statement in itself? I would rather have peace in Christ than have peace because a woman had killed herself.
There are many, many examples of our people also acting outside the rule of law and harming noncombatant german civilians after hostilities ended.
The one that springs to mind is the Morganthau-driven policy that German civilians were to be kicked out of their homes, in winter, so that jews could live in them.
Also, the story of Eli Weisel comes to mind wherein he and friends, postwar, would roam the countryside at night looking for German females to rape. The Allies knew all about that kind of activity and allowed it to continue in order to cow the citizenry into submission.
I do not affix a moral value to those events, I am just throwing them out there.
IKE had the locals walk through the camps so they could no longer deny what was going on there.
“...the Morganthau-driven policy that German civilians were to be kicked out of their homes, in winter, so that Jews could live in them.”
WHAT Jews? In Germany in 1945!?
Do you mean evicting Germans inside Germany, or Germans in formerly Nazi-occupied countries being evicted & sent back to the Fatherland?
Bad stuff happens long after the big guns fall silent, got it.
American G.I.s in the liberation of Buchenwald & Dachau summarily executed hundreds of SS-men; some of the latter donned prison garb but were fingered by their former victims. These the Yanks shot as `spies’.
“War is hell, but actual combat is a son-of-a-b*tch”
They literally almost beat Rudolf Hoess, the Kommandant of Auschwitz, to death when they caught him.
Rudolf Hoess’ wiki bio is sickening. But we must not forget the horrors of human cruelty. The truth must be faced even if the reading is painful.
He was hanged by the Poles in 1947, but seemed to have expressed remorse & a spiritual conversion before being executed.
On the other hand, Ilsa Koch the Bitch of Buchenwald hanged herself in prison in 1967, unrepentant to the end.
You find typically with all the Nazi bigwigs that they joined the party in the 1920s and were already committing murders and other crimes back then.
Given the circumstances of slowly, painfully dying in Buchenwald, I think God was pretty hard to find for some at one point or another. I’ve seen the interviews, it’s a subject that I have made myself learn because it is so very important history. In the end, those who have survived, do find God again.
You and I will never know such Hell. Let’s hope we won’t, anyway.
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