Horizontal Collaboration Punished
I've heard about what happened to the women in France who had relations with German soldiers, but these photographs really speak a million words, not just a thousand. What I find most entrancing (if...
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These types of photos instantly sadden me. Certainly, some of these women probably did some horrible things to their country-men and on paper probably deserve much worse. In fact, many of these women...
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Very disturbing human behavior, not as bad as killing but I wonder if any woman was killed over this.
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Wow...this story would make a powerful, provocative film.It blurs the line between good and bad...frightening.
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Not that this condones the above, but it must be achingly infuriating to see for years "your women" laughing it up with and getting privileges from the enemy who has overrun your town/city/country....
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Absolutely!But every woman pictured has a different story.I could see someone getting raped then being prosecuted wrongly by this mob mentality.
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Don't get me wrong, these stills sadden me too. I don't know what precisely these women made - but I know very well what the Nazis did, at Oradour-sur-Glane for instance. Unfortunately we don't have...
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I love it when a study comes out which proves what most of us have always known for ages. This is why society has always needed religions and ways of controlling people. Good has to be taught and...
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Jago Turner wrote: The only problem with religion has been that once you have included your entire social group within a moral code some will start looking for people outside that social group who can...
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Omega Man wrote:Jago Turner wrote: The only problem with religion has been that once you have included your entire social group within a moral code some will start looking for people outside that...
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The 2nd WW incidents are more complex than the above summary. At least the one in Poland. It's true that in Jedwabne, Catholic Poles murdered Jewish Poles (men, women and children), but it wasn't just...
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Jago Turner wrote:I love it when a study comes out which proves what most of us have always known for ages. This is why society has always needed religions and ways of controlling people. Good has to...
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Yes, despite the natural longing for a clear-cut "black & white" world, it has never been such and NEVER will be. At the very same time that Catholic priests in Croatia were leading death squads,...
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And in the Cassino area of Italy in '44...An addendum to my comments above (after a quick check of a few books on ye old "non-fiction" shelf)...Black U.S. and French Moroccan soldiers were often...
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What's the best English book on Cassino, Brian? When I took the "horror express" ride from NYC to Washington DC with the Chris Lee squad (Lee was going to a Fanex there), he mentioned how almost...
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What's the best English book on Cassino, Brian? Probably Monte Cassino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II by Matthew Parker (Doubleday, 2005).
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