[untenured]

I'm flabbergasted by an article like this coming out of an important German paper. What kind of paper is Der Spiegel, and what kind of Germans read it?

[Paulus Invictus]

It's the widely-read Time magazine of Germany and just as relevant as Time is here--in other words, not at all. Their asinine article trying to relate Abu Graib to Hitler's truly awful, murderous acts is so ridiculous I can hardly express my disdain for the author and the Germans that believe this tripe. The author did seem to get a bit of truth into his message, however. Democracy often comes at the point of a sword.

Also, I am a WW II history addict and I do not recall reading that Patton's troops killed Italian and German POWs in Sicily after they surrendered. Where did that come from?

[longjack]

This is the translation I did from the original German a couple of days ago:

"FreeRepublic"....Terminator? Demokrator! .... German Article Comparing U.S. ME Policy To WW II....Pro-US

What's surprising is that this is the second week in a row that Herr Malzahn has written a relatively pro-Bush / pro-USA article published in "Spiegel" and the second week in a row they translated it over to the English site.

"Spiegel" is a magazine similar to "Time" or "Newsweek", I would hazard as a comparison. I feel they tend to lean left, but do have some insights from the conservative side at times.

If you wish, read some of the comments on the other thread for some other insights about this article, and also look at the first post of the other thread. I have a link there to Herr Malzahn's great Reagan / Bush comparison from the week before. There are some comments there about "Spiegel" that you may find useful as well.

Thanks for the ping.

longjack

[paulmartin]

it's considered in Europe to be a conservative German newspaper, and Germans, likely from the Americans feeding and giving resources to them directly after the war and protecting them through the Cold War, tend to view Americans nicer than some other Europeans, i.e. the French. British are sometimes supportive because they think a special relationship exists between the U.S. and the U.K.