What would you have done?

[feralmerril]

Common sense tells me our government HAD to know of the atrocities going on LONG before it became common knowledge. Today we know of the atrocities going on in the mid east. Tonight, perhaps due to the pressure of us knowing maybe things will change in that area.
Read these numbers. WW2 Statistics
Now tell me, whats the odds of had all of the soldiers been born in the OPPOSITE enemy countrys, would all, or any of them at all rebelled and joined the other side?

 

[budster]

My uncle was in the underground during the war. He would help smuggle out Jews and British Pilots through Greece to the Med. He was captured by the ss, jailed and interrogated but, because of his blue eyes and blonde hair and his perfect German, he was let go and went back to doing what he was doing. He never ever talked about his stories to the family but, I finally got him to tell all and they were hair raising.
After the war he was a witness to an ss LT. and a Capt. on trial for war crimes in Greece. The LT. spit on him, and was lamenting that he didn't kill him when he had the chance. My uncle related that he was present when they were hung and made shure that he laughed at them as they were walking up the gallows.

 

[YogiBear]

Aloha,

As an AJA of the post war generation, I have friends and relatives that were interned.

After Dec 7, 1941 my Dad was picked up and questioned.

He Never talked about WW2 and we Never knew what he did during the war.

I have/had an Uncle in the 442(think movie "Go For Broke", the short GI escorting German POWs ducking under a tree limb and the 442 guy just walking under without bending over to clear), I always think of him. He was that short.

I married a girl(of Germanic ancestry) from Minnesota. She knew of the Japanese being interned in Minnesota, but not WHY.

I Explained to her in detail the WHY of Americans of Japanese Ancestry being interned and what happened to their properties.
Needless to say she had no idea that it happened in the US and was upset.

In the end I asked her that IF such a thing were to happen today, Would she let me get interned.

She said, "NO, that's Why we have our Guns."

She can trace her ancestors back before the Revolution. One even Signed the Declaration of Independence.

She has family that fought on Both sides of the "Civil War"

Seems that her family is a long line of "Pain in the Asses"

 

[mike from st pete]

The Rape of NanKing, Bataan March, Unit 731. War is atrocious plain and simple.

 

[MX5Fan]

The killing of the Jews and other minorities was not war, it was genocide with complicity in much of Europe and a blind eye by the US.