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And finally they raped and debauched hundreds of thousands of German, Austrian and Hungarian
girls and women from eight to eighty. In one year of 'peace', they brought to their death five times as
many German civilians as died during five years of war."
Dr. A.J. App, American authority on the Second World War
There can be no apportioning of blame based on nationalism for these 'peace crimes' occurred with the
approval, acquiescence and indeed the collaboration of all the victor powers. All had a vested interest
in dismembering Germany, de-populating large sections of German territory by expulsion, and
reducing the German population through a combination of expulsion, starvation and murder.
Indeed, in parts of Central Europe as in Austria, the British occupiers worked closely together with
the NKVD - forerunners to the K.G.B. - openly collaborating in the deportation and mass murder of
thousands of non-combatants; men, women and children too. This collaboration extended back to
Britain where Stalin's Police worked openly with the British authorities, rounding up and transporting
to their deaths, tens of thousands of displaced persons.
THE AMERICANS:
WHAT KIND OF WAR DO YOU CIVILIANS SUPPOSE WE FOUGHT?
"What kind of war do civilians suppose we fought anyway? We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped
out hospitals, lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off enemy wounded, tossed the
dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled the flesh of enemy skulls to make table
ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers. We topped off our saturation
bombing and burning of enemy civilians by dropping atomic bombs on two nearly defenseless cities,
thereby setting an all time record for instantaneous mass slaughter.
"As victors we are privileged to try our defeated opponents for their crimes against humanity; but we
should be realistic enough to appreciate that if we were on trial for breaking international laws, we
should be found guilty on a dozen counts. We fought a dishonorable war, because morality has a low
priority in battle....
.... I have asked fighting men for instance, why they - or actual we - regulated flame-throwers in such
a way that enemy soldiers were set afire, to die slowly and painfully, rather than be killed outright by
a full blast of burning oil. Was it because they hated the enemy so thoroughly? The answer was
invariably, 'No, we don't hate those poor bastards particularly; we just hate the whole goddam mess
and have to take it out on somebody.'
"Possibly for the same reason we mutilated the bodies of the enemy dead, cutting off their ears and
kicking out their gold teeth for souvenirs, and buried them with their testicles in their mouths, but
such flagrant violations of all moral codes reach into still unexplored realms of battle psychology."
Edgar L. Jones, U.S. Second World War veteran. Atlantic Monthly, February 1946
"Bands of irresponsible bandits in Russian or American uniforms pillage and rob the trains. Women
and girls are violated in sight of everyone. They are stripped of their clothes."
Sylvester C. Michelfelder, Lutheran Pastor, The Christian Century
"A long line of such incidents parades before my mind: the story of our Marines firing on unarmed
Japanese survivors who swam ashore on the beach at Midway; the accounts of our machine-gunning
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