Crimes (non-Holocaust)

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.



By Wilfried Heink- “Slavica Publishers” in their Fall 2005 Journal “Kritika” published an article by Marina A. Sorokina titled: “People and Procedures: Toward a History of the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in the USSR”. A little about Slavica publishers first: “Founded in 1966, Slavica Publishers, a division of Indiana University …

By Wilfried Heink The following essays are based mostly on “Verbrechen der Sieger. Das Schicksal der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in Osteuropa”(Crimes of the victors. The fate of German POWs in Eastern Europe, Druffel-Verlag, Leoni am Starnberger See, 1975). It begins with a foreword by Brigadier General Wolfgang Schall, retired, POW in …

By Richard A. Widmann- [caption id="attachment_2102" align="alignright" width="150"] RIAN archive 897469 Handover of Katyn forest massacre materials to Poland[/caption] This week, Russian lawmakers passed a bill that would make Holocaust revisionism illegal.  The bill introduces criminal charges for "denying facts" established by the Nuremberg tribunal regarding the crimes of the …

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.