>>> Something similar occurs when we read about the “partisans” behind German lines in Poland and Soviet territory, despite them being painted today as heroic figures for many people they were nothing more than bandits killing and stealing according to their own ideologies. <<<
Yes. how dare those Polish and other “partisans” go behind “enemy” lines and kill those poor, unsuspecting “Germans.” How can we paint these murderers as heroes when all they did was kill Wehrmacht soldiers who were busy collecting flowers and making slivovitz for their Polish and other slavic friends? And ALL because the Germans didn’t follow the same ideology! Shameless!
Calm down fella, I couldn’t agree more that any Pole who fought Germans in Nazi occupied territory was perfectly entitled to do so, my point is however that it wasn’t just Germans who were on the receiving end of partisan activities many ordinary people who wanted no truck with the Nazis but who just as importantly wanted nothing to do with Soviet backed Communists either were often victims of the partisans.
Try reading a bit of history before you fly off the handle.