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Originally posted by bsbray11
You're trying to justify the US bringing these sick people over here and giving them jobs and protecting them, are you not?
Originally posted by bsbray11
Yep, now that you mention it, that's exactly what America needs. Thanks again for taking the high road, Jerry.
Originally posted by aorAki
Originally posted by mydarkpassenger
To demonize everyone who joined the Nazi party is a disservice to the truth. Again, I point out that one of the most famous "Nazis" was Oskar Schindler, who single handedly saved more than 1200 people from the death camps.
Yep, I've seen 'Schindler's List' too...and nowadays I ride Schindler's Lifts.
Something about both of them having mass trasport of people.
Originally posted by jerico65
Originally posted by bsbray11
You're trying to justify the US bringing these sick people over here and giving them jobs and protecting them, are you not?
Am I? Once again, point out my exact quote where I say that the bringing over of these officers was justified.
I didn't say that the Gestapo wasn't in the business of killing Jews. Go back and reread my posts.
Someone asked why would the US want these guys. I said for fighting Soviets. The Gestapo had counterintelligence offices; don't you think that US Counterintelligence Officers were interested in Gestapo contacts, assets, and informants that were behind the Iron Curtain after the war was over???
I'm not justifying it, I'm just saying that's probably why the US was interested in these guys.
But we weren't known for that during or after WW2
So the very same folks whom we had to eradicate from their evil deeds against humanity and plans to rule the world were basically pulled on board and given asylum here. Never mind their crimes against humanity-they had something to offer our intelligence branches, so they get a free pass. lol
Sounds almost like our current bunch of war criminals, running around doing speaking tours and getting cushy book deals. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Originally posted by soficrow
reply to post by DimensionalDetective
Good catch.
Worth repeating:
So the very same folks whom we had to eradicate from their evil deeds against humanity and plans to rule the world were basically pulled on board and given asylum here. Never mind their crimes against humanity-they had something to offer our intelligence branches, so they get a free pass. lol
Sounds almost like our current bunch of war criminals, running around doing speaking tours and getting cushy book deals. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
...It's beyond hypocrisy, isn't it? Is there a word for this kind of thing? (In arguments as well as life?)
We weren't the ones then nor are we now, Shoveling Men, Women and Children of all races into ovens OR attempting the extermination of any one race in particular. Sure some former politicians deserve to be bashed even charged but apples and oranges.
Originally posted by frozenspark
Operation Paperclip.. nothing new.
God knows for what purpose they were recruited. MK Ultra? Create AIDS? Sterilize population? Disclosure of THAT would be monumental.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Well if you don't think bringing the Gestapo over here was justified, then you must surely agree with me that it wasn't justified and so we don't really have anything to be arguing about.
Originally posted by bsbray11
So now we just wait and see if you have to get the last word in about how we had to have the Nazi propagandists and Gestapo over here to win the "Cold War." Because it seems to me that's all you've been doing through this whole thread anyway and it's not what someone who disapproves would be arguing.
Originally posted by bsbray11
I remember what you said "bad boy," it was what you didn't say that interested me. You ignored and then tried to downplay the fact that the Gestapo were in the business of killing Jews and homosexuals and all the others, even saying you thought it was some other agency doing all of that and not the Gestapo. It's on the last thread page over. You haven't bothered once to make note of the atrocities the Gestapo committed in this thread.
Originally posted by ziggy1706
Maybe theirs a connection, between the Federal reserve starting in 1913, the rockefellers, hitlers dream of socialism and world domiantion, inlfuencing our governement, to bring in socialism? that takes time to do it sneaky...decades.
Originally posted by TheWill
But we weren't known for that during or after WW2
I would have to point out that some American soldiers took souvenirs from Japanese soldiers that they had killed in WWII, which isn't exact wholesome.
Originally posted by jerico65
Where is my quote? Where is my quote stating that I was agreeing with what happened? Where does it say that I was justifying it all? You accused me of that, and now you're tap dancing and back-peddling your way out of it. Ain't gonna work.
Originally posted by bsbray11
So now we just wait and see if you have to get the last word in about how we had to have the Nazi propagandists and Gestapo over here to win the "Cold War." Because it seems to me that's all you've been doing through this whole thread anyway and it's not what someone who disapproves would be arguing.
Once again, come up with the exact quote from me justifying it all. Where is it? I want to see it.
Someone asked why would the US have taken in these officers, and I gave reason. You got your panties in a bunch over things I wrote in the past and accused me of justifying their actions. Now, I'm wanting to see where I said it was a fantastic idea.
So, come up with that post of mine where I said keeping these officers was justified, or start making with the apologies.
But what I was pointing out was that Germans tended to want to surrender to Americans rather than Soviets. The Germans and Soviets were both much more brutal than the Americans were, at that time. You're not disputing that are you? Because that's what I'm posting
Originally posted by TheWill
Not saying that you implied otherwise, just pointing out that a soviet having a stronger tendency to eviscerate captive germans than an american might is not necessarily down to national character.
Originally posted by jerico65
Originally posted by aorAki
Originally posted by mydarkpassenger
To demonize everyone who joined the Nazi party is a disservice to the truth. Again, I point out that one of the most famous "Nazis" was Oskar Schindler, who single handedly saved more than 1200 people from the death camps.
Yep, I've seen 'Schindler's List' too...and nowadays I ride Schindler's Lifts.
Something about both of them having mass trasport of people.
Actually, Schindler was a factory owner and wasn't in transportation, but hey, if you want to make light of a man that did his best and risked it all to save 1200 people, knock yourself out.
Originally posted by bsbray11
You're the one doing the back-peddling. If you really deny what you post, you would be happy to state the opposite. But every time I invite you to, you just keep asking me to prove where you state your feelings explicitly. That's a childish game and it doesn't work.
Originally posted by bsbray11
The problem is that your "reason" that you give is just as morbid as the whole situation itself. And when I point that out, instead of agreeing, you keep bickering with me and ignoring the faults of the Gestapo and others to try to paint them in a more glowing light. That isn't something you've done explicitly, it's something you've done by ignoring their atrocities and pretending the reasons we had for bringing them back were excusable.
Originally posted by bsbray11
I'll make my apology when you explicitly say that the US had no justification for bringing back Gestapo, propagandists (which you won't even MENTION) and others.
Until then you're just hiding behind your unwillingness to say what you REALLY think, but I can still tell.edit on 13-12-2010 by bsbray11 because: (no reason given)