cross‐posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/317643
Even after the liberation of the camps, [the Jews] were still prisoners. They were kept under armed guard; they were kept behind barbed wire; they were bunked with [Axis] POWs. And in some cases, believe it or not, the [Axis] still lorded over them while the allies ruled the camp.
When I started researching the book, this was a book about the [Fascists] who fled to America. I really had no intention of looking at the survivors — it seemed sort of irrelevant to what I was doing.
And then the more I got into it, and the more horrified I was by the conditions that the survivors lived in — where you had thousands and thousands of people dying even after the liberation of disease, of malnutrition. I realized it was relevant to the story because as easy as it was for the [Fascists] to get into America, it was just as horribly difficult for the Jews and the other survivors to get out of the camps.
It took them months, and in some cases a couple of years, to get out of these displaced‐person camps. It made me realize that the liberation that I had learned about years ago was in some sense sort of a mockery.
[U.S. Army] Gen. [George] Patton believed that the [Fascists] were best suited to run these camps. In fact, he openly defied orders from then Gen. [Dwight] Eisenhower, who was in charge of the European forces after the war.
Patton was in charge of the displaced persons camps. Patton had sort of an odd fondness almost for the [Axis] prisoners, believe it or not. He believed that they [were] the ones in the best position to efficiently run the camps — and he gave them supervisory approval to basically lord over the Jews and the other survivors.
(Emphasis added.)
See also: Fifty‐seven‐minute video presentation by Eric Lichtblau on the subject.
Whenever I point out that tankies liberated Auschwitz libs will say something like “Uhhh, actually, it was a liberation in name only and they just kept running the camps.”
I know it’s always projection, but how do libs manage to project even the capitalist atrocities they haven’t heard of?
Of course
Patton
always knew in his heart that he should’ve fought Le evil Rossi…
I guess I’m not that surprised. The claim that WWII really was mostly just fascist infighting always felt a little simplistic to me but now it seems I was the fool for thinking that.
Death to America. They’ve done nothing good.