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Anybody see the special on the Waffen SS last night on Discovery? Germany made a great "account" of herself during WW1 & WW2. Brutalizing Europe and Russia was a great "account" of herself. When a war isn't driven by religion, it's generally driven by power inflated egos. ie. Kaiser Willy and Adolf Hitler. I respect many of the men that were thrown into these horrible situations and had to fight there way out but the men behind the madness were monsters.
Both wars were such a huge waste of good men.
War's a grim business. I respect men who come out of it with a shred of morality but I don't hate them if they don't. After seeing so much death and destruction it doesn't seem so wrong to blow an unarmed prisoner away I guess. What I'm saying is that I can't judge unless I've been through it and war might have made me into a monster too.
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