In the 1970's I was in Germany and remember a German woman telling me "If a German's car breaks down, no German will stop to help, only African-American [?] soldiers stop and help." I remember the overall attitude of Germans as friendly and favorable to African-American GI's, but also remember being told by Germans that they feared and loathed French colonial troops, particularly Moroccans, who raped and assaulted German women in the postwar years. I have read German accounts of the immediate post-war years in which it was stated that African-American GI's treated the Germans better than many Caucasian American soldiers who oftentimes acted with snobbery and arrogance.~ Robert Miller.
"A critical examination of the Potsdam Accords and Morgenthau plan," Amazon.com, August 7, 2006, a review of "Gruesome Harvest: The Costly Attempt to Exterminate the People of Germany."
Gotta love them Moroccans! And those alert French officers, come to think of it.
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Here is a quote from the book:
"Two of the biggest headaches in the American occupation of Germany are problems we brought with us. One is the extreme youth and inexperience our army men . . . The other problem - and one so politically touchy the War
Department is afraid to remedy - is the heavy use of Negro American troops. The result, despite some superb Army leadership at the top, is that American prestige has steadily dropped from its V-E Day peak.
"The top men in Germany, almost without exception, think it's a mistake to have so many (42,000) Negro troops here. 'They're simply not trained and disciplined
for this job, which is vastly more complicated and delicate than fighting,' said one general. 'They have a higher crime rate, a venereal disease rate several times that of the white soldier, and a worse record for mischief in general. . . Frankly, the worst problem comes from our colored troops going with white German girls. This stirs bitter hatred among German men. Many of our own soldiers feel almost as strongly about it.'"
Thank you for taking the time to type that passage. It's very interesting and I suspect a more accurate overall picture.
I am sick of the racial fairy tales that are sluiced into American society, especially after the Jeremiah Wright revelations, which I take as irrefutable evidence of utter black disdain for whites, a disdain that has festered beneath the airy rhetoric of the Civil Rights Struggle (CRS). I think it took Oprah five years to figure out Wright was someone to get the heck away from, but I still take it badly that she was there in the first place. She didn't leave because of personal distaste for the man or his message.
Wright was not the first time I became aware of black rejectionism. The Zebra killings, Black Muslims, the Black Panthers, and the steady patter of YouTube pathology were instructive. But it was with Wright that you could plainly see that hostility to whites and America is a major theme at the very pinnacle of black society, not just with the underclass.
So here we are with the mask slipping away from the face of the black and realism now demands realism about the past.
The positive words Mr. Miller wrote are still worth reading. Good is good and bad is bad. We should get both, however, without phony characterizations from people who don't like the truth.
The left always is on about how we have to face the truth of our awful ways. Other truths they prefer to conceal.
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