Posted on 07/27/2015 4:41:37 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Occ-GY/ch21.htm
“The question who is a Nazi is often a dark riddle,” Third Army G-5 reported more than a month after V-E Day, adding, “The question what is a Nazi is also not easy to answer.” 1 In official terms, however, the questions were not difficult to answer at all. SHAEF had long ago worked out automatic arrest categories ranging from the top Nazi leadership to the local Ortsgruppenleiter, from the top Gestapo agents to leaders of the Hitler Youth, the Peasants’ League, and the Labor Front. Furthermore, thousands of suspects were being arrested: 700 a day in May and June, and a total of over 18,000 in August. In September, 82,000 suspects were being held in internment camps, away from the political scene and available for possible trial and sentencing as members of criminal organizations.2 They were all presumed to be confirmed Nazis and, with some allowance for excessive zeal on the part of the Counterintelligence Corps (CIC), the vast majority doubtless were. Usually, of course, they did what they could to conceal their identities and their pasts. Some succeeded no doubt, but most were not hard to find. Capt. Arthur T. Neumann, whose detachment’s out-of-the-way Landkreis, Alzenau in northwestern Bavaria, was a favorite refuge for those fleeing automatic arrest, reported that nearly all suspects, once they were identified, could be brought in by postcards telling them to report to the detachment office at a specified time.3 Finding out who had been party members, whether important enough to merit arrest or merely rank and file, was also not difficult. The party had kept excellent records, which often passed into military government’s hands intact. The detachment at Wasserburg am Inn, for example, had twenty-eight lists and rosters covering everything from party and Hitler Youth membership to deliveries of boots and uniforms.4 The best evidence, the party’s entire central registry of 12 million cards with photographs, turned up in Munich in a pile of wastepaper waiting to be pulped.5
People will sell their souls if it buys them Free Stuff!
THE U.S. ARMY IN THE OCCUPATION OF GERMANY
1944-1946
http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Occ-GY/index.htm#contents
As Shane McGowan wrote in “Navigator”
Their mark on this land is still seen and still laid
The way for a commerce where vast fortunes were made
The supply of an Empire where the sun never set
Which is now deep in darkness, but the railway’s there yet.
In public, Attlee appeared modest and unassuming; he was ineffective at public relations and lacked charisma. His strengths emerged behind the scenes, especially in committees where his depth of knowledge, quiet demeanour, objectivity and pragmatism proved decisive. He saw himself as spokesman on behalf of his entire party, and successfully kept its multiple factions in harness. His reputation among scholars in recent decades has been much higher than during his years as Prime Minister, thanks to his role in forging the welfare state and opposing Stalin in the Cold War.[1] In 2004 he was voted the greatest British Prime Minister of the 20th Century by a poll of 139 academics organised by Ipsos MORI.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee
And here is another view of Attlee:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Clement_Attlee
Attlee explained his policies in 1947, noting that the chief challenge which faced Britain was the need for a transition from a war to a peace economy, and for a transition from capitalism to socialism. However the nation had been impoverished by the war and was unable to hold its increasingly expensive and restive British Empire. Attlee’s solutions were to make India independent, to pull out of Palestine, to nationalize major industries and begin socialized medicine, and to turn to the sympathetic liberal government of President Harry Truman to pay for it all.
I wonder if a bust of Attlee sits in the White House.
3 am search also looks like a great time to meet some good looking fräuleins.
Thanks for saving us from the Germans, Winston, now go away, we want free stuff!!
Poor Korea, liberated by after-thought
The Japanese were ready to throw in the towel. The die-hards were starting to lose power and there were still a few leaders who thought they could bargain with us. They had already approached middle parties with thoughts of terms. The atom bombs just pushed them to move faster and give up the idea of terms.
They literally had nothing left.
probably would have started by the end of the year and it would have been bloody
I can only imagine sea-borne assaults and landings in several Japanese cities at the same time.
wasn’t there still resistance attacks and stuff for years afterwards?
Part of God's plan.
Even the wicked, destructive schemes of the socialists serve God's purposes in the end.
Once Germany was no longer a threat to Communism, then anti-communist Churchill had to go.
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, indeedy. Romans 8:26, etc., etc. How awesome it is to serve a God Who is so wise, capable, and powerful that He can make everything serve His good, holy purposes.
I read of a flip side to this. There were a lot of Jewish soldiers in the British Army who, immediately after the war, went around arresting former Nazis under the color of authority, taking them out in the woods, or wherever, and executing them.
The word soon came down from the Zionist organizations to cool it as they were struggling to get a country born and it would look bad to have future Israelis accused of running hit squads.
wow
Not just the British Army either, soldiers in the US Army were doing the same thing.
Even some members of Co.E, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne Division (Easy Company/Band of Brothers) went after a suspected concentration camp commandant and upon finding the guy summarily executed him.
The policies instigated by Attlee and his socialist pals kept Britain hungry and economically depressed for twenty years.
My wife grew up in England during that period. Her father, who had a good job at autosalvage, had the only car in the neighborhood. This was in the sixties. My wife's job when the family went out on a car trip was to hold the bucket to catch the water leaking through the roof.
Meanwhile, an almost completely devastated West Germany and Japan transformed into economic powerhouses within that period of time.
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