Keith, to suggest that we look through the eyes of the concentration camp survivors to see the liberating soldiers, is to suggest we look through their eyes without first seeing the soldiers who guarded the camp, tortured, raped, and murdered the inmates, etc.

Perhaps you need reminding that they weren't cheering when they saw the Russian and American soldiers arrive. They were quite sceptical and afraid of them. For good reasons. The very reasons I mentioned, in fact.

I really find it impossible to believe that you hold such a Pollyanna attitude about the abuses, excesses, and crimes committed everyday by police and soldiers, considering you are one. US military personnel and anyone who attends a police academy, receives training on these things.