[68skylark]

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[68skylark]

There's not a lot one can say in response to this column. The bravery of people who fought the Nazis in WWII just amazes me.

That spirit is still alive today in many places. We shake our head at the appeasers and the pro-defeat crowd. But let's not forget our warriors overseas, and all the pro-victory, pro-freedom people everywhere. And that includes our allies, whether they're Muslim, Christian, or Jew, or whatever.

[WIladyconservative]

Fascinating - thanks for sharing it with us.

[Woodstock]

Good post. Thank you.

[Monterrosa-24]

Those last three months of the war took such a toll in the camps. So many, like Dietrich Bonhoffer, like Elie Wiesel's father, like these women, were executed or died from diesease so close to liberation.

[Casekirchen]

Good article.



However, is there a moral, ethical, legal difference between these women spies & saboteurs and terrorists / sympethizers who infiltrate America today?

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Recently Posted thread on a book about Khan: New book on WWII Indo-Brit agent

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[jordan8]

Marks wrote an interesting book (though not a particularly exciting one, it is cryptography after all) on his wartime experiences called "Between Silk and Cyanide." The biggest danger of the codes was not that they helped the Germans find agents but that they made it easier to play them after they were caught, sometimes causing agents and supplies to be dropped on waiting Germans. Holland in particular was a defeat for the SOE. The book "Killing of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich" by Callum MacDonald gives a good example of how hard it was to operate in occupied Europe and how inadequate the training was, even though the agents sent into Czechoslovakia were recently departed natives.
The vast, overwhelming majority of those who fought against the Nazis were Christians (or perhaps atheists in the case of the USSR), not Jews, and certainly not Muslims. The kumbayah factor here is ridiculous.

[Hannah Senesh]

That photograph of Violette Szabo puts me very much in mind of Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca:

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