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Old 14-10-2006, 03:42 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Re: Der Brand - The Fire

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Originally Posted by Chindit View Post
Assuming that this sentiment is replicated in the book itself, you'd need no further justification for avoiding the book. Germany started the war, and initiated its worst horrors. Whatever was done to it was as a result of that, and to prevent Germany doing it again. And how anyone thinks that commemorating the holocaust 'unbalances' the view is beyond me; Amongst all the brutality of the regime, this was its worst feature. For any author to argue otherwise automatically destroys his credibility in my view.
My sentiments also!

It is strange that the second generation of allied children after ww2 are inclined to blame the US for dropping the bombs on the Japanese.

How the worm turns!
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My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
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