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What's often not told of the Battle of Monte Cassino is the destruction of a jewel of the West. To the Germans' credit, they offered not to take the monastery
by tosseuthansia 6y ago
What's often not told of the Battle of Monte Cassino is the destruction of a jewel of the West.
To the Germans' credit, they offered not to take the monastery as a position if the Allies wouldn't bomb it. They only took the advantageous positions after it'd been reduced to ruble.
The Germans also helped evacuate as much of the stuff inside as possible, moving it to the Vatican, where the monks trusted the Germans wouldn't steal the stuff. To further trust amongst the locals and monks, a monk accompanied every truck to the Vatican. As a result most of the library was saved.
Monte Cassino is one of the (many) examples of Allied war crimes and one of the (very) few examples of German honor in WWII.
- dsohn0 6y agoAs a Jew I find this concept of german military honor during ww2 utterly repugnant. This fetishization of nazis is utterly sick, why don't you also give us examples of the honor of pol pots army or the honor of Argentina's military when they were disappearing people. Absolutely repugnant.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoI think what the commenter is mentioning is about the individuals. Remember, Nazi Germany instituted a draft and had conscription. Not every German soldier was a Nazi. You can mention the honor of the individuals themselves without praising the regime that lorded over them.
- hutzlibu 6y agoNot really. If you have really honour, you don't fight for a murderous regime. You fight against it. Easier said, than done, when you have family etc. but any praise of the Wehrmacht is pretty out of place, considering the context. They only turned against Hitler when the war was about to be lost. Not before. But given your name, you might see things differently.
- dsohn0 6y agoEvery German soldier was an instrument of mass murder. How is this bullshit about individual soldiers brought up only when losers try to defend the german military being tools of nazi murder but not the individual brave soldier in pol pots army or the honorable spanish fascist? Maybe you think your grandpa was a nice soldier but he contributed to systemic genocide.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoRemember, it's only a war crime if you lose...