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Re: STARLING ORDER - Reply from Axel Niestle
Posted by:
kurt
()
Date: August 15, 2002 03:17PM
<HTML>Sander wrote:
"If I understood your logic right, a crime is not really a crime when there are similar precedences."
No. A crime is a crime is a crime.
What I was saying is that picking on Walker when others on the 'other' side (not neecessarily in the U-boat arm, but in uniform) did far worse (but were not punished) is rather selective history. Where is your moral outrage for the murder of American submariners shoved back into the water - or depth charged, by IJN forces?
I guess it seems that this and similar threads (though not your post in particular) seem to have a bit of a 'anything that happened to Germans is a war crime, but we (the Germans) didn't do anything wrong' edge to them that I find uncomfortable, to say the least. No doubt in my mind that wrong was done on both sides. But also no doubt in my mind which side did the vast majority of 'wrong' things.
Enough said.</HTML>
"If I understood your logic right, a crime is not really a crime when there are similar precedences."
No. A crime is a crime is a crime.
What I was saying is that picking on Walker when others on the 'other' side (not neecessarily in the U-boat arm, but in uniform) did far worse (but were not punished) is rather selective history. Where is your moral outrage for the murder of American submariners shoved back into the water - or depth charged, by IJN forces?
I guess it seems that this and similar threads (though not your post in particular) seem to have a bit of a 'anything that happened to Germans is a war crime, but we (the Germans) didn't do anything wrong' edge to them that I find uncomfortable, to say the least. No doubt in my mind that wrong was done on both sides. But also no doubt in my mind which side did the vast majority of 'wrong' things.
Enough said.</HTML>