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Thread #26578   Message #320863
Posted By: Little Hawk
17-Oct-00 - 11:18 AM
Thread Name: BS: Was Custer a Scumbag?
Subject: RE: BS: Was Custer a Scumbag?
Ah, well, you should have fought them then, as my father did in 1944 and 1945. He noticed their conspicuous bravery on any number of occasions. Read accounts of the fight for Monte Cassino in Italy if you do not think they were brave...the American general who fought against the German fallshirmjager (paratroops) there said himself that (in his opinion) no other soldiers on earth could have held that position so long under such terrible circumstances. Mind you, a great many German soldiers were not technically Nazis at all, since they were not members of the Nazi party, but of course they were under the command of the Nazi administration, so I imagine that you would dub them ALL Nazis, and tar them all with the same brush...just like the more fanatical and deluded Nazis did to the Jews.

Had you been born into a different group of people at a different time, you might well have hailed them as heroes, little realizing the atrocities that were occuring in the concentration camps at that time. People everywhere are suckers for self-serving propaganda. They tend to believe just what Big Brother tells them.

History is written by the victors. Folk music is written by the survivors.

And McGrath is not a scumbag.