In this letter to Sarah Bloomfield, Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, David Merlin talks about the Allied bombings of the Nordhausen Camp Hospital and the dishonesty and exploitation of this tragedy by Believers.
War crimes committed, distorted, exaggerated, or merely imagined. This does not cover the “Holocaust,” as it is not a war crime as such: the victims were not attacked during acts of warfare and as part of any identifiable belligerent nation.
In this letter to Sarah Bloomfield, Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, David Merlin talks about the Allied bombings of the Nordhausen Camp Hospital and the dishonesty and exploitation of this tragedy by Believers.
Germany's president Frank-Walter Steinmeier appeared at a monument to gay victims of National Socialism to ask for forgiveness for the suffering and injustice gays endured...
War produces grotesque and horrifying abuses of man by man. Everywhere and always.
They can be proven by judicial proceedings, but never as to all who are guilty of them.
Especially the victors.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the first landing on the moon, there seems to be very little appreciation of the Germans, chief among them Wernher von Braun, who made it possible. This represents a stark change in attitude from thirty years ago, and probably reflects the fact that most adult Americans now cannot remember when "the lessons of the Holocaust" were not treated as the most-important lessons.
The accusations against the rocket scientists are (1) that they created rockets that killed civilians (a completely hypocritical accusation), and (2) that they were personally responsible for unjustified killings of workers in the underground V-2 factory during the war. The main witness for the latter accusation was a man named Yves Béon, a former member of the French Resistance who never made these accusations until after 1969, and includes details in his narrative (in addition to the basic fact that Arthur Rudolph and Wernher von Braun never came across as monsters) that make it seem unlikely.
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