Well, yes, and I don’t think that we should however unconsciously or ignorantly assist the Germans in wiping out their glorious past by using the term ‘Nazi’ with everything related to WWII, except when referring to “Polish death camps” as the New York Times and President Obama like to do. This is what motivated by initial response. What, the Soviet Red Army heroine sniper asked her targets to show their NSDAP membership cards before she shot them?
Yes, I’ve noticed, and so have the Eastern Europeans, that Germans are attempting today to recast themselves as victims of those “Nazis”, when their grandparents eagerly participated in the Third Reich, not always in the SS or Gestapo of course , but patriotically supporting the warring state.
The NY Times is a snide rag of a newspaper, that’s a given. The idea of using the term ‘’Polish Death Camps’’ is an insult as far as I’m concerned and I’m puzzled by it. As if the defeated Polish nation had any choice about what the Germans did in Poland. The Second World War was the single greatest, life altering event in mankind’s existence on this planet. From the cauldron of a prior war, chock full of wounded national pride, triumphant national hubris, ethnic and political grievances, old hatreds reborn, new ones made, the rise of totalitarian regimes , the deluding narcotic of appeasement by the Western Powers and finally one charismatic, shrieking Austrian gutter snipe to light the fuse, it exploded into a six year cataclysm humanity barely survived. It’s two central and horrifying realities were the Holocaust and the Atom Bomb. WW2 changed the way we all will live. Forever. And while our allies of that time did their part to defeat the Axis Powers, it was The United States and the men and women of “The Greatest Generation’’ who saved the world.I’m proud to say members of my own family, now deceased, did their part. The older I get the more I realize the enormity of the war itself and the mortal danger civilization faced at that time. And the more grateful I am of the American people of that time who didn’t shrink from their duty, They saw their duty and they did it. I’ll never forget what I heard an old WW2 vet say as to how and why America won WW2. ‘’America won the Second World War’’ he said simply, ‘’Because we are a free people’’. To me, that’s a powerful statement.