Sad but interesting, and well written. Thanks for posting this.Glad to see one good piece from the “new” New Republic.
I read the comments to this on the TNR site. Liberals can’t help being military-hating liberals.
Most commented on the “racism” of Dr. Wilsey. The rest were “See, I told you so, American G.I.s weren’t the angels you think they were!”
My Dad was infantry and helped to liberate Dachau. He seldom talked about it. When I brought up G.I.’s summarily executing SS-men, Dad replied that American soldiers didn’t do such things. By then there were stories everywhere about Nazi war criminals escaping justice & living out their lives comfortably, and I was glad to hear that rough justice was meted out in Dachau.