[cherry]

total BS....people like my father gave up their last year of HS to sneak into the military to rescue Jews among others....

he never got reparations, or $20,000, or PTSD pension for life, nor much of anything else....

he ended his childhood to save the world and I could care less if somebody 70 yrs later claims they had hurt feelings during the big war....

I'm sure any GI alive could tell stories about "hurt feelings"...the blood, the guts, the missing limbs, the dying...

[originalbuckeye]

Yep. My dad was 22 when he was shot down in the European Theater and spent the last year of the war as a POW in Germany. Our Greatest Generation had much more mettle that many in our successive generations.

[PA Engineer]

You are in denial. It was real.

My Father mentioned it. A silver and three bronze stars as a combat engineer in the Ardennes and Rhein campaigns.

Why the violent reaction to history? It is what it is.

[Cronos]

I would suggest you read the article and watch the documentary

In no way does it dishonour the greatest generation - brave, incredibly brave men like your father

It talks about an American NCO who in a German PoW camp told the germans that all of his men were Jews rather than giving up his fellow Americans for slaughter

It does talk about the casual racism that was still present -- but it does NOT villify America or Americans. It talks of what was - and how America was far less anti-s than other parts of the west and as we see, it changed so utterly after 1945

[Jim Noble]

American and Allied war policy in Europe had nothing to do with Jews.