Allied atrocities and war crimes

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Allied atrocities and war crimes Nov 5, 2021 21:45:41 GMT Turnagain likes this

Post by been_there on Nov 5, 2021 21:45:41 GMT

Nov 5, 2021 21:43:05 GMT been_there said:

GENOCIDE of German PoWs: EISENHOWER’S DEATH CAMPS ?

There has been some unresolved controversy regarding an alleged deliberate policy by the Americans to kill German PoWs by neglect, starvation and exposure in 1945.

The story of Eisenhower’s Rhine Meadows death camps — a claim of a deliberate policy of extermination of the surrendered German forces by the Americans and French, in post-war Germany (Rheinwiesenlager) — was revealed to the world by a Canadian named James Bacque in his 1989 book entitled ‘Other losses’.

Bacque wrote:

"The victims undoubtedly number over 800,000, almost certainly over 900,000 and quite likely over a million. Their deaths were knowingly caused by army officers who had sufficient resources to keep the prisoners alive".

An attempt was immediately made in certain predictable quarters to discredit the claims in the book as false.

This wikipedia stub outlines the controversy: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Losses

I had read the book a long time ago, but I had never come across an eye-witness testimony of this alleged genocidal treatment from one of the victims. Until today.

The following account is from Roger Büttner, one of the prisoners. He mentions in passing his own experience of the treatment of himself and other German surrendered soldiers, in this account of a Near-death-experience (NDE) he had in a camp while near to death by starvation and neglect.

See what you think...

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Allied atrocities and war crimes Dec 22, 2021 23:51:10 GMT been_there likes this

Post by Nazgûl on Dec 22, 2021 23:51:10 GMT

2,525,000 (3.4% Jews) lived in the Russian Empire 1942 (link) Add to this about 2 million Polish people forcibly transferred with a jewish population of 16.25% (325 k) bringing the total jewish population to 2.85 million jews under the Soviet Sphere of Influence.

The russian population in 1942 would have been 74.3 million to get the historical figure for jews above. (3.84% being jews.) During pre war, war, and post war period the NKVD murdered 34.8 million over a 14+ year period (2.32 million pa) link. (1939-1953)

Assuming Jews were a representative part of the murdered population, considering they did not have special status the number of jewish deaths in that period would be 1.3 million.

This is not to demean the deaths at the hands of the Nazis (how they died is irrelevant) but it seems to me that the supporters of the Holocaust is blind to the fate of their fellow brethren at the hands of the Soviets.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn shouted the fate of a good proportion of jews in his book "the Gulag Archipelego", but got wacked over the knuckles for exposing the jews in power organizing the mass terror. They eventually got their come uppance by Stalin, but the mayhem they caused prior to this is quite considerable.

Why has the murder of 1.3 million jews by the Soviets gone largely unnoticed by the Holocaust crowd?

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Allied atrocities and war crimes Feb 1, 2022 21:41:51 GMT

Post by been_there on Feb 1, 2022 21:41:51 GMT

For decades the US has lied, covered-up, whitewashed and justified their policy of ex-judicial murders of non-white people in non-European countries. Decades of murders by US military — even massacres and rapes — of innocent civilian non-combatants has been excused by the Pentagon, US politcians and US Presidents.
Thankfully that appears to be changing, as one of the recent murders of non-whites in foreign countries is coming under criticism from main-stream media... finally.
That seems to be because seven of the murdered were children.

...the footage from both drones shows that children were nearby at the time of the strike. One view from directly above is less clear — black-and-white footage showing heat sources — but there still seem to unmistakably be small bodies moving around near the car just before the strike. A second drone nearby shows higher resolution footage, where it's much more clear that children were in the alleyway by the house just prior to the strike.

That the strike happened anyway is apparently part and parcel for how the military has used drones in the War on Terror. It's why whistleblowers have been warning us all along that the U.S. has been misleading us by claiming these strikes are precise, and capable of taking out terrorists without collateral damage.

The footage certainly reinforces the analysis The New York Times published in December that determined that not only has the military dramatically under counted the number of civilians killed by drone strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, and other countries, it also seems to have very little interest in analyzing what causes strikes to go bad and has done a poor job of analyzing its failures. Furthermore, it was operational policy for the military to call for drone strikes even when children were present if officials could argue that there was an important "military advantage" gained by the strike.

reason.com/2022/01/19/released-video-footage-shows-disastrous-u-s-drone-strike-that-killed-kabul-family/

Here is a report on the official military whitewash in November 2021:

And here is a recent critical report by the New York Times:

www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/us/politics/afghanistan-drone-strike-video.html

Last Edit: Feb 1, 2022 21:48:20 GMT by been_there