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It's a quagmire! No blood for sauerkraut!
So much for the Marshal Plan and the Berlin Air Lift. Your welcome Germany. Next time rebuild your own damn country, we have enough debt already.
Congressman Billybob
Sheeesh! You drop a few thousand tons of bombs, incinerate a couple cities, invade with one of the largest land armies on earth, and all of a sudden, you're a bad guy! The only thing the Germans really liked about us was that we weren't the Russians!
Mark Levin is reading this thread now.
Sixty years later, the Nazi offspring still hate us. Hitler would be proud of them.
Whole bunch of similar post-WWII stories posted there.
I did notice the date and the fact that we still dont have an exit strategy. we need to get out of Germany they dont want uis there , Then or now.
Nearly 60 years later and we're STILL there?!
Mein Gott! What's our exit strategy??
No blood for bratwurst!
bump since i cant remember my nyt password
lots of good info on this topic here: http://thecr.blogspot.com/2003_11_01_thecr_archive.html
many excerpts (scanned) of newspapers from back then. things haven't changed - some state how the communist half of germany is doing so much better than the american occupied half.
I hate to say this, but it's not at all obvious to me that they ever really quit hating us. We won and should have annexed them.
Maybe the Germans didn't like us but they sure as hell did not have to power to kill us. I was in Austria in October 1945. We were glad that Truman had ended the war in the Pacific and we could come home. What do the GIs have to do today to come home?
Ummm. Is there an excerpt long enough for it to be meaningful?
Is Truman planning to keep American troops there until the Presidential election in 1948?