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Originally Posted by bigboywooly
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Originally Posted by P_Funk
My grandfather was a Commando, he served under Lord Lovat and he told me that he did some terrible things. He said that everyone he was fighting was just like him, caught up in something this big and doing what they're told. He said that they're all someone's child and that he hates the terrible stuff he did, but that he did it for a reason. He also made a point of saying that the SS were the exception, obviously. They didn't bother taking them prisoner.
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Ah the generalisation all SS were evil 
You say SS prisoners werent taken but ???
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Well in the midst of war, it seemed so. Now in the aftermath we can count out the good and the evil. But at the time the same way we didn't really know the story of the Holocaust we understood that the SS were all pigs. And considering the way SS were known or rumoured to not take prisoners well... like I said evils of war. Was it right? Probably not, but then my grandpa said that when he signed up for the special forces they told them right up front that what they were doing was illegal and they sure as hell wouldn't get any medals for it. The war my grandfather fought is certainly even more hard to rationalize in peace time than the average soldier's.
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Originally Posted by joea
Well I posted some charts buddy, if you didn't get the point well I am sorry.  A point I thought you understood in PM. It was not a damn stock market comparison...but to illustrate the different goals like you said about your Grandfather, bad for good (or to prevent a worse thing). There are other wars too. |
I didn't mean anything to you, I only meant it in response to those that obcess over the numbers. Stalin versus Hitler. Counting the dead in Dresden. If not for the meticulous records of the Nazis the number of dead in the holocaust wouldn't even be as easy to note. My point was that people were making this into a football game and focusing on the score rather than talk about the philosophy of it. Please don't confuse that with my personal respect for you.