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9/23/1941, More than 200 Parisians Arrested; Some Added to Pool from Which Nazis Draw from for Reprisal Executions
10/21/1941, Nazis Shoot 50 Hostages in Reprisals at Nantes France for Ambush of Local Commander … Map, Nantes, Google
2/20/1942, Further 45 Hostages Shot on Orders of Commandant of Occupied France as Reprisal for Attacks on Authorities
4/21/1942, Reportedly 500 Frenchmen Killed In Rising Against Nazis; 1,000 Jews & Communist to Be Deported to E. Europe
4/23/1942, Commander Stuelpnagel in Paris Announces 15 Jews & Communists Executed in Reprisal for Attacks on Nazis
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10/21/1941, Nazis Shoot 50 Hostages in Reprisals at Nantes France for Ambush of Local Commander … Map, Nantes, Google
2/20/1942, Further 45 Hostages Shot on Orders of Commandant of Occupied France as Reprisal for Attacks on Authorities
4/21/1942, Reportedly 500 Frenchmen Killed In Rising Against Nazis; 1,000 Jews & Communist to Be Deported to E. Europe
4/23/1942, Commander Stuelpnagel in Paris Announces 15 Jews & Communists Executed in Reprisal for Attacks on Nazis
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If a Nazi war criminal is liquidated by the leader of the resistance followed by 50 hostages shot as reprisal by the Nazis, then who get the blame for the executed hostages? … If LBJ defends South Vietnam from communist invasion, then who gets the blame for starting the Vietnam War?
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Reprisals were permissible if you could demonstrate the hostages were connected in some way with the assassination. But 50 was too many, a few were ok. It didn't matter if the killed was a monster or an angel.
The communists wanted and started the Vietnam War and were responsible for it.
The communists wanted and started the Vietnam War and were responsible for it.
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And Stalin under the pretext of communist ideology continued the Czar's foreign policy of weakening rival countries with maximum sabotage. North Korea, Eastern Europe, and India were all vulnerable to cheap provocations. Their propaganda often reported Uncle Sam planned to enslave them. … While communist propaganda complained, America's allies in general prospered.
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Are you seriously trying to justify the reprisals against civilians by implying the resistance is what caused them?Globalization41 wrote: ↑10 Jan 2020, 21:49And Stalin under the pretext of communist ideology continued the Czar's foreign policy of weakening rival countries with maximum sabotage. North Korea, Eastern Europe, and India were all vulnerable to cheap provocations. Their propaganda often reported Uncle Sam planned to enslave them. … While communist propaganda complained, America's allies in general prospered.
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A reprisal is a legal crime.
The very idea is that the innocent (but available) suffers for the crime committed by the (unavailable) guilty. To force him to stop his actions.
For example, when the Germans started murdering Polish elites by thousands, the Poles proposed all Germans in Allied territories were executed too.
This is how you do reprisals.
The very idea is that the innocent (but available) suffers for the crime committed by the (unavailable) guilty. To force him to stop his actions.
For example, when the Germans started murdering Polish elites by thousands, the Poles proposed all Germans in Allied territories were executed too.
This is how you do reprisals.
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Actually Adolf I was not justifying reprisals, but just replying to WM's comment on Vietnam. Sorry about the unclear antecedent. … Nazi reprisals against prisoners weakened American isolationists prior to Pearl Harbor. News of reprisals strengthened F.D.R.'s interventionist tendencies. Publicized Nazi cruelty to prisoners increased the Allies' fighting spirit. Overall humane Anglo/American treatment of POWs decreased Germany's fighting spirit considerably on the western front compared to the Eastern Front.
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