Originally posted by Ripsnort
Oh, I'm "over it" as you speak, but lest we forget history, we're doomed to repeat it.
Don't forget the SS, Naso.
I dont forget the SS.
Will be nice, since you have a good copy and paste, to remember the Rodi(?) facts, 1.500 Ita ex-soldiers were killed after the surrender by German SS.
Emotions and moral aside, I think that the "retaliation" (it's correct word?) it's not a good tactic to gain the control of an occupied territory.
You can see something now in Israel-Palestinian sub-conflict.
I know, your mass media system talk only about Israel deaths, but there is a 1-5 or more ratio in retaliation.
To you they say they are all terrorists.
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Emotional side note: My ex-girlfriend's family it's from Beinette, 5 Km from Boves, his father, age 16 then, was captured by the SS in the field, with his uncle, loaded in a truck, and lined with other people taken on the road.
The MG was already loaded and ready to fire.
They count again (they needed 20 people to kill), there were 21 of them (maybe the officer's descendants live now in Florida), so they randomly took him away from the line.
He was 50 meters, running away, when the SS opened fire, his uncle was killed there.
50 years later (he died in 1999 for cancer) he told me the story, still with tears in the face.