| Hi Doppleganger.
You say that I sometimes come across biased and unbalanced, but I think my posts are balanced in regard to the particular threads i'm replying to, for instance, this one is headed "Hitler youth" and the Waffin S.S. were mentioned, you said it committed no more atrocities, and was no more involved in Nazi Party activities, than the Heer units it fought alongside, so I simply gave my views on that subject, therefore I think it's irrelevent to say that although they committed atrocities, "so did all sides", we're not comparing them to others, rather discussing their role within the German military, so from that viewpoint I don't see my posts as biased.
Same as if I were to post on a thread that asked "did the Russians commit war crimes" it would have no bearing on that question to say, well yes, of course they did, but so did the Germans.
Originally you mentioned, that the Wehrmacht committed crimes, but you always add the caveat that "all sides did it", [ and although this is true, it is, as i've said, really irrelevant. ]
The only reason I make any reference to allied war crimes is because you keep mentioning them, but as i've said, I don't think it's pertinent to the subject under discussion.
We've touched briefly upon the subject of whether the Germans as a race were more likely then others to go down the path they did, and as i've said, i'm not sure what the answer to that is [ hopefully we'll never find out ] it's an interesting question, but simply a hypothetical.
As i've also said before, I harbour absolutely no animosity toward the Germans whatsoever, not toward the majority of the general populace during the war, or even the entire Wehrmacht, my revulsion is strictly toward those who participated, directly or indirectly, in what I can only describe as the greatest crimes against mankind in history.
You're obviously a great admirer of the Wehrmacht and it's commanders, and there's no doubt they turned out more then their share of commanders "touched with the genius of warfare" [to quote Carlo DeEste] but I don't think you can separate their performance in the field from the atrocities that went hand in hand with those commanders. Even if the worst they did was look the other way and pretend it wasn't happening, it's hard for me to admire men like that.
To sum up, yes, I acknowledge that crimes were committed by the Allies, but believe my posts have always been directed toward the subject under discussion, which really have nothing to do with Allied crimes, and also don't think [ hopefully ] that i've ever been dishonest, or tried to exaggerate, anything i've said about Germany's role. |