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To: Sivad

I read it several years ago. Thing is, the Germans did the exact same thing with their POWs in some cases as their supplies of Jewish and ‘undesirable’ slave laborers ran out.

I’m not saying it wasn’t equally reprehensible, I’m just wondering why you aren’t *also* railing at those German companies that also profited from POW slave labor and kept their same names after the war.


81 posted on 07/20/2015 9:45:18 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

What the Germans did was reprehensible but
it seems to me that there is a whole race
and many nations that have been addressing
that situation since 1945. My own specific
area of historical interest is the Pacific
Theater of WWII. More specifically I study
the Philippines in WWII.

My dad who passed away in May was an original
member of the 511th Parachute Infantry Reg of
the 11th AB Div. He fought on Leyte and was
seriously wounded on Luzon during the fight for
Manila. Part of his regiment and division rescued
over 2100 civilian POWs from the Japanese. Among
those rescued was Margaret Sams author of “Forbidden
Family: A Wartime Memoir of The Philippines” along
with her husband, Jerry. My folks met the Sams at
a 11th AB reunion and learned they were close
neighbors here in NorCal. They became close friends.
When I decided to complete my BA in history rather
late in life I chose to research and write about the
Los Banos Raid and the prison camp itself. My
interest in the Tx of prisoners by the Japanese
expanded from that,

My area of interest just doesn’t seem to have
as wide of a constituency as the events in
Europe. That is why I leave the Nazi atrocities
to others.


82 posted on 07/20/2015 10:32:41 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf ;-))
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