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Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident (1943)
- baxtr 2y agoThere is a good video summary on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNCgjIhzG4g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNCgjIhzG4g
- umvi 2y agoThe book about this, "A Higher Call", is excellent
- me_smith 2y agoAgreed. This book helped me really understand the people in a country are not all defined by the ruling party or the ruler. In this case, not all Germans were Nazis and some had much honor in how they conducted warfare. Maybe this was obvious to many people but it wasn’t obvious to me until this book.
- moomin 2y agoI can recommend “They Thought They Were Free”. The book is imperfect, but it hit home to me the horrific truth on National Socialism: that the people who did it were regular people, not the monsters of myth.
- y-curious 2y agoReminds me of another article I saw on HN recently. For how terrible WW2 was, there was still a sense of old-war honor that seems impossible to imagine nowadays. https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/douglas-bader-replacement-leg-ace/ https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/douglas-bader-...
- suchoudh 2y agopeanuts cartoon strip also has a Charlie Brown is that related to this episode. ?
- CamperBob2 2y agoNope.