| Happy Liberattion Day 08:42 - May 9 with 449 views | blueislander |
Raise a glass for thoose still alive who suffered the German occupation. |  | | |  |
| Happy Liberattion Day on 09:10 - May 9 with 375 views | Keno |
Hope you have a good day!!
Down one for me |  |
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| Happy Liberattion Day on 09:12 - May 9 with 371 views | DJR |
For a moment, I thought this thread was about the Brexit vote which happened around 10 years ago. |  | | |
| Happy Liberattion Day on 09:17 - May 9 with 357 views | Swansea_Blue |
Well said. And reflect that we’re supposed to be on the opposite side to fascism! 😬
(PS, the Islander party of your username makes sense now). [Post edited 9 May 9:19]
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| Happy Liberattion Day on 09:29 - May 9 with 329 views | blueislander |
| Happy Liberattion Day on 09:12 - May 9 by DJR |
For a moment, I thought this thread was about the Brexit vote which happened around 10 years ago. |
God forbid! | | | |
| Happy Liberattion Day on 09:33 - May 9 with 316 views | blueislander |
| Happy Liberattion Day on 09:10 - May 9 by Keno |
Hope you have a good day!!
Down one for me |
Will do. | | | |
| Happy Liberattion Day on 10:01 - May 9 with 266 views | Churchman |
Definitely! Those times and events are easily forgotten yet were despicable.
On a parallel tack, i was reading the other day about the starvation in Holland in 1944/45. The Germans stole everything, including food. The estimate is 20-25,000 starved to death that winter. Thats just one small example of the cruelty inflicted, with mass support, by the German people.
Tiny numbers really. They starved to death well over 3 million Soviet prisoners. Some of these were part of the 3 million people and POWs the Germans worked to death. It was called forced labour to sanitise it and differentiate it from slavery, which was a dirty word even in the 1940s.
The justification for the term forced labour was that slaves get fed. Forced labourers were worked to death.
The cruelties inflicted by the people of that country beyond the horror of the holocaust (and the Japanese) should never be forgotten. Interestingly, it’s only revisionists in countries like this that seek to justify it. The current generation in Germany do not. Their past is now taught in schools and people there mostly want to know and not repeat what happened.
The animal responsible for the Netherlands in WW2 was called Arthur Syess-Inquart. He was convicted at the Nuremberg trials in 1946 and was executed. If ever a piece of nothing like that deserved to die at the end of the rope, it was him. I was in Nuremberg the other week and went to the Court of Justice where the trials took place. Interesting and chilling - and a lesson.
I don’t know whether history is taught here now. If not it ought to be. [Post edited 9 May 10:08]
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