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Rules For The Occupiers

Journal Entry: Tue Jun 5, 2012, 4:53 PM


From a 1945 article in the Army newspaper "Stars And Stripes", instructing the American soldiers on how to react to the German civilians they were in constant contact with, as the occupying forces:

"Don't get chummy with Jerry (slang for Germans). In heart, body and soul every single German is Hitler. Don't make friends with Hitler. Don't fraternize. If in a town you even one time bow or hold a door open for an elderly woman or a pretty young girl, or if you pet a small blonde boy on the head: You bow to Hitler and his demonic reign of blood."

In a further article is an interview with Roosevelt's Secretary of The Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Junior:

"The only way to keep Germany under control is to level its factories, destroy its mines and make the country forever nothing more than a peasant/pastoral state. The leaders of this country are to be hanged as soon as possible, and the people who survive the starvation rations that we should impose upon the nation should be reduced to a state of being swineherds, garbage collectors, and sharecroppers who barely make subsistence living. I am also talking with the President about the possibility of enforced sterilization. If this last procedure is enacted, then within a short period of time the entire German race will be eliminated and the world will no longer have to fear this aberrant and genetically diseased people who are a danger to the rest of humanity."

Thankfully Roosevelt and other world leaders decided against deliberately starving the German people and sterilizing everyone. I don't think that Morgenthau ever apologized for what he said (and he said these things in official interviews and papers repeatedly) nor did he ever seem to realize the hypocrisy of what he wanted enacted.

Of course, not all of the American soldiers and politicians felt this way, but it is an attitude that is almost always glossed over and completely ignored in the history books and documentaries, so much so that most people now have no idea that these things were actually written and discussed by the Allies.

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:iconavalanche787:
The genocide that occurred after the Second World War, displacing over 11 million Germans needs to be remembered.
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:icondasblondebiest:
Yes, I wish that would at least be discussed so that people are aware of it. The ethnic displacement, the brutal revenge on Germans in Czech lands, the huge suicide numbers and the deaths of 9,000 people on the Wilhelm Gustlof are great tragedies that actually make the record books but yet nobody wants to mention it.
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:iconavalanche787:
I second that. As a history student I know that history is not a study of truth, rather whose argument is the most acceptable. A lot of history is swept under the rug, this is because if someone was to shed light on it would be suicidal for most politicians/historians.
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:icondasblondebiest:
My husband teaches history and German at the high school level and the college level and he says he's amazed at the way things are changing now with students. He says they are very interested in seeing all sides of historical events to learn as much as possible, and it never used to be that way back in the 1960's when he started teaching.
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:iconthedarkwolf:
This reminds me of this video: [link]
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:icondasblondebiest:
Thanks for putting this link up, but now I feel like I'm going to lose my dinner after seeing that,lol!
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:iconthedarkwolf:
I know right.

Basically you can hate Germans and you're patriotic, hate the Jew, you're an Anti-semetic. :confused:
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:iconwildergothica:
~WilderGothica Jun 6, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
:wtf: I never knew it was that bad, and such crap was ever printed. It's embarrassing I'm from the same country as people who say things like that. Every single German is Hitler? What about the German movements against Hitler? Way to assume things. 12 years was a short time and so much happened, but before that, Germany contributed alot to the world and 12 years doesn't cancel that out.
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:icondasblondebiest:
It shocked me too, and it is pretty hard to shock me. I've gotten to the point though where I don't get that mad anymore, as there seems to be no end to the dumb things humans do....
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:iconwildergothica:
~WilderGothica Jun 7, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Humans were born to be stupid.
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