There are SO MANY well-off "bystanders" in Nazi Germany whose lives were basically fine after the war, whose ability to just go back to earning and spending money and live their lives like normal is an affront that cries out unto God
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
Replying to @ForestaWriter @arthur_affect and
Speaking as one a little closer to this... on the one hand my grandpa had no problem dropping ordinance on the folks who wanted him and those like him dead. But I think he'd have been less comfortable with the kind of stuff Arthur is talking about.
3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @ForestaWriter and
All I'll say is that the Soviet soldiers on the Eastern Front, who bore most of the burden of actually stopping the Nazis, mostly had already been "broken" by what had been done to them by the Germans and didn't feel like they'd be broken further by turning it back on them
1 reply 2 retweets 14 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Mad_Science_Guy and
A lot of moralizing about the horrific things done by the Soviets in the war is complaining from people who reaped most of the benefits of the Axis being defeated in WWII while paying a fairly small share of the costs
4 replies 6 retweets 21 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Mad_Science_Guy and
(Total USA deaths due to WWII: 419,400 Total USSR deaths due to WWII: 27 million The difference in attitude between the two countries toward their defeated foes can be summed up by that one statistic)
2 replies 4 retweets 19 likes -
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
The issue is less about who deserves the credit for winning the war and who paid the COSTS of the war And it obviously rubs people the wrong way to say that the people who suffered least were best placed to make an objective judgment of how to pursue justice
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
- Show replies
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.