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Skriven 2012-08-18 20:35:33 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
   Kommentar till text 2450 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Dutch Hero
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Hello Ward,

 RC>> Shrug, He thinks Israel should have rolled over to the Arabs RC>in the
 WD> same fashion that his people rolled over to you know who..

WD>The Netherlands were a small nation with a badly armed military,
WD>save perhaps for the navy, and stood no chance against the well
WD>trained and armed machine that the Nazis had.

Au contraire.  Holland had Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, whom the Nazis
considered as being Enemy Number One.  The man was a true patriot of
freedom, an impossible soldier, and only conditionally of Orange.

He set his own standards, of which he had only one, as expressed
in his own book -

"We judged by one touchstone only: What is their record against
the Nazis?"

Roelfzema finished the war, knighted and decorated, by the Queen
of the Netherlands.  Read his story.  It is truly remarkable.
Perhaps the finest Dutchman of all time, and most certainly of
World War II.

 WD> My parents also had stories about 4+ years of occupation and when you're
 WD> staring down the barrel of loaded and cocked gun, the story is totally
 WD> different.

 WD> I decline to judge people on what they did in order to survive under
 WD> conditions we dare not think about.

 WD> My parents were married for the simple reason it avoided that my mother be
 WD> sent to Germany to work in the war industries there because the men were
 WD> all in the armed forces.

 WD> My mam got pregnant with my oldest sister because too many women married
to
 WD> avoid being sent to Germany so the Nazis changed the rules to "all women
 WD> except the ones that had children or were pregnant".

 WD> Because of her pregnancy she had a right to one (1) egg a week and one (1)
 WD> bar of soap a month.

 WD> They did what they did in order to survive, it was not because they worked
 WD> that they were collaborators.

 WD> Although there were shortages also in the USA, extreme shortages even at
 WD> times, the country was not occupied. No comparison possible.

The last time the USA was even partially occupied was during the
War of 1812 by the British.  But we no longer demonize the British
today for the wrongs they did so long ago.  Okay, some folks in the
South still demonize Yankees for their occupation of Dixie, but most
of those folks have passed away...

--Lee

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