Posted on 03/26/2015 8:34:12 AM PDT by C19fan
There was no doubt that Private Blake W. Mariano of the 191st Tank Battalion was a brave man. As part of the American Army's 45th Infantry Division, he had killed many Germans as he fought through Africa, Italy and southern France, before finally, in March 1945, he and his Sherman tank had crossed the Rhine into Germany. By April 15, 1945, Mariano had been away from his home in New Mexico for nearly three years. A father of three, the 29-year-old was divorced, although he did have a girlfriend in England.
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Indeed.
But he said to the effect: " Remember when you get into Germany, only the unborn are innocent."
The Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin, is referred to as the "tomb of the unknown rapist"
The immorality of communism is something we’re all becoming familiar with at the hands of the American fascist party.
Soviets...probably more than that.
I'm sure they're counting consensual sex and quid pro quo as rape. To feminists, any sexual relations where there is an uneven balance of power is "rape by coercion".
The British men didn’t like American Soldiers, they said the Americans had an over problem they were over fed, overpaid, oversexed and over here.
***Every Army under the sun has done so ...***
“There fore let no man hasten to depart home till each have lain by some Trojan’s wife and paid back his strivings and groanings for Helen’s sake.”-Nestor of Gerenia’s speech to the Greeks before the walls of TROY from HOMER’s THE ILLIAD.
German soldiers didn't rape or pillage?
British women really like American men, even today.
You are so right. We can not justify criminal behavior against others on the basis of what their countrymen did.
You are so right. We can not justify criminal behavior against others on the basis of what their countrymen did.
“One has to be evil to rape.”
And what is a person that can kill his fellow human....more evil, less evil, on a scale of 1 to 10 where does killing in a war measure....
If the term “allies” includes Russia, then possible
It should be stressed that Dr Gebhardt is not a specialist World War II historian, but is better known for her works on other topics, such as the feminist movement in Germany, the philosopher Rudolf Steiner and the history of education. She has also spoken at conferences on Left-wing politics, and it is therefore tempting to regard Dr Gebhardt as one of many academics who is not entirely minded to view countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom in a positive light.
So where does she get her high figures of 190,000 rapes by the Americans, and 45,000 by the British? According to the U.S. Army's figures, American troops carried out 552 rapes in Germany. Even if one applies the 'five per cent rule', then this would mean that the total figure is around 11,000. This is a shockingly high number, to be sure, but nowhere near that of nearly 200,000 by U.S. troops alone. Instead, Dr Gebhardt has looked at childbirth statistics in West Germany, and has assumed that five per cent of the children born to unmarried women from 1945 until 1955 were as a result of rape. Of these, she says 1,900 were born to American men. Even if one were able to accept these assumptions, Dr Gebhardt then takes things to an implausible level. Estimating that for each of these 1,900 births there were 100 rapes, she arrives at her bizarre figure of a total of 190,000 German rape victims.
From the Article “This number is far too high, and is not supported by any documentary evidence whatsoever. One can only assume that Dr Gebhardt is motivated more by some Leftist anti-American agenda than by proper historical inquiry.”
Americans let abortionists and the women who go to them murder millions of unborn babies. We can’t point the finger at Germany without pointing it at our country.
LOL, you think the American serving his country, or the policeman, or the father defending his family is evil if he resists Nazis, or home invaders, or guns down a mass murderer on a killing spree?
Do you want us to surrender to ISIS right now, rather than kill one of them?
“Throw in the Holocaust and suffering of civilians and of course, the cost of war, Germany had it coming. THEY LET Hitler and his band of crazies take over and willingly participated in the rounding up and shipping off of Jews and participated in euthanasia”
Throw in OBAMACARE and suffering of citizens and of course, the cost of OBAMACARE, Obama had it coming. He, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and their band of crazies took over and willingly participated in the “shoving it down the throats” of of Jews,Christians and others—And participated in/stood by silently while allowing ISLAM’S slaughter of same across the middle east...
Now I see.... clearly
Also keep in mind that some non-military folks take advantage of a war torn area to commit crimes. Same goes for disaster zones.
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