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Yes, every student of history knows we protected American troops by making European territorial concessions in return for Soviet troops doing most of the fighting and sustaining most of the deaths and wounds.
As you know, once Russia sustained huge losses taking Berlin our specialist troops raced into what would soon be Soviet territory and we relieved them of art treasures, highly skilled people and other valuables before the Soviets occupied those areas.
These decisions by America read like a cult of merchants who value their wealth over the freedom of others.
The reluctance of FDR and the Congress to take in Jewish refugees earlier in the war, similar to restrictions in England, were the result of appealing to the popular racism of voters over the freedom and or lives of refugees. And it's happening again right now.
I think it's obvious that UK and American guilt over this eventually led to increasing support for an Israel in Palestine. If your voters clearly want to limit the entry of Jews to your country, it's only reasonable and fair that they should have some other place to go.
In Europe, England and the US people in today's world think we would have made different decisions than the leaders or the populaces - maybe so. But 106 year old Brunhilde Pomsel, Joseph Goebbels’ former secretary wonders if that's true.
Pomsel died January 27 but there's a powerful "doocumentary film" which is an interview of her life last year - "A German Life". A very though provoking and disturbing film. a-german-life.com
“Those people nowadays who say they would have stood up against the Nazis – I believe they are sincere in meaning that, . . . but believe me, most of them wouldn’t have.” After the rise of the Nazi party, “the whole country was as if under a kind of a spell,” she insists. “I could open myself up to the accusations that I wasn’t interested in politics but the truth is, the idealism of youth might easily have led to you having your neck broken.” - theguardian.com
Probably like yourself I really like Germans of our era because they live with an earlier mistake which many in the US and other countries feel fear about pursuing themselves.
Her horrifying little boss with the club foot. And we see echoes of his beliefs, actions and speeches today in America and other nations.
