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Race is a factor. After the camps were initially liberated prisoners became "displaced persons". Obviously, they were treated better than under the Nazis but ma
by youdontknowtho 7y ago
Race is a factor. After the camps were initially liberated prisoners became "displaced persons". Obviously, they were treated better than under the Nazis but many were held in the same camps for years after the war.
This is from Patton's journal...
"Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to the Jews who are lower than animals,”
We have so mythologized our victory in WWII that's our mistakes and failures don't really exist for most people. We were only noble. We were only brave. We were only just. It's way more complicated.
- geofft 7y agoI'm reminded of this story of a man who was sent to the concentration camps for homosexuality, only to be imprisoned after the war for the same offense by the same judge: https://twitter.com/holocaustmuseum/status/1137100696606695424 https://twitter.com/holocaustmuseum/status/11371006966066954...
- youdontknowtho 7y agoI don't know why this is being downvoted. It's clear that even German POWs were treated better than the Japanese...which under different circumstances is something we talk about as an example of how we are better than our enemies.