Posted on 06/30/2004 4:46:00 AM PDT by kattracks
Personally I'm hoping he gets the "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" treatment ala the scene of the stairway..
In May 1945 (maybe late April), Himmler fled westward to the American/British lines, hoping to be accomodated in negotiations for a separate peace and a continuation of the war against the Soviets. He was rebuffed, and taken into custody. While in custody, he crunched the cyanide capsule.
Rommel actually was forced to commit suicide because of his peripheral involvement in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler. He wasn't involved in the attempt itself, but he had had conversations with some of the plotters in France, and wouldn't have been in the least sad to see Hitler go. He had given serious consideration to simply "opening the front" in his area (he commanded Army Group B, a large portion of the German forces in northern France) and letting the Allies sweep east.
In Hitler's paranoia after the attempt, Rommel's name came up, and Hitler sent men to Rommel while he was recuperating from wounds suffered when his staff car was strafed by American fighters. They told him, basically, take this vial of poison we brought with us and your family won't get prosecuted. Otherwise, we take you to a kangaroo "People's Court" trial, you'll be found guilty, and your whole family dies with you. So he took the poison to spare his wife and son. The German public was told he died of a "brain aneurysm" due to his injuries, and he was given a state funeral.
It would've been interesting to see if Rommel would have been brought up on war crimes charges post-war, had he lived. Personally, I doubt it. He was very much a professional soldier and there was never any documentation of atrocities committed under or by his command, in France or in North Africa.
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I'd swear that looks like a cat, but who am I to argue?
I haven't had my first cup of java yet.
I like the swinging touch Dave, nice one, LOL!
I think that's SOP in the mideast. I heard they had 103 public beheadings in Saudi Arabia in 1999. They also cut off body parts the same way, in public.
Ah, I thought you had him mixed up with Hess, which was an earlier defection.
Material I'd seen on Himmlers fate indicated the the negotiations for a separate peace (via Swedish Count Bernadotte) and his capture by the British were seperate events. Oh well, material from this era will be mined for decades to come!
Let the Kurds try Chemical Ali and dish out his punishment.
Or Upper Manhattan...or Seattle...or San Francisco...or her in Minneapolis.
That is a cat.
However, most Iraqis hate Dogs.
I think that while the $oddomite is swinging, that it would be great if a Great Dane walked up to the "Swinging $oddomite" and lifted its leg to ---- -- ---
The full Mooose would be great for the $oddomite and his thugs.
While they are hanging in there, send in a bunch of Big Dogs with very full bladders.
See my #71.
Agree completely.
His chances of a return to power must now be ranked at above 20%-and rising.
An amazing reversal of fortune.
The rumors came from the usual source, the IRC.(internetional Red Cross) who has cause the U.S. a load of grief in the last few months.
They are controlled by the Euro trash.
Chirac?
"Welcome to FR. Did you have anyone specific in mind?" I doubt it'll answer, no balls. Nice catch.
There's too many to get specific.
"obviously he won't get a fair trial in Iraq. They should move him to some place like Oregon."
I know a bunch of "good 'ol boys" here in northeast Florida that would like to converse with that guy.
As for Saddam, I'm not sure which would be best for him. What were his favorites again? Oh yeah, feeding people alive to his starving dogs and the plastic shredder. First though, he ought to have his hands surgically removed, his ears and tounge cut off and his genitals removed.
I hate to wonder if they will. Does the new Iraqi leadership have the cojones to execute these killers? We shall see.
Saddam will not live to see 2005.
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