traces.org - 1/26/2009
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The Legacy By the end of the Second World War some 400,000 German Italian and Japanese POWs found themselves imprisoned in the United States; millions more Axis and Allied POWs were held in camps in Europe, the Soviet Union, Canada, Australia and Africa. While Axis POWs were both the ...
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A nation of stupid wusses
Rising Hegemon —
If we could house hundreds of thousands of Germans, including thousands of Nazi officers and SS members behind barbed wire fences in rural America (and very near populations overwhelmingly German-American I might add) in the 1940s, I think we can manage to keep a few hundred terrorist safely away from the populace in a SuperMax facility or high security American prison. ...
The Wurst Generation
Firedoglake —
... If we could house hundreds of thousands of Germans, including thousands of Nazi officers and SS members, behind mere barbed-wire fences in rural America (often in ethnically German communities) in the 1940s, I think we can manage to keep less than three hundred people in an American prison. Why we even let German POWs gather together and sing the "Die Wacht am Rhein" without the competing "La Marseillaise" ...
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Anyone understand this German?
hackenblog.hackenbush.org 1/17/2009 — Hmmmm…(via)
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Unlawful Combatants Are Not POWs
corner.nationalreview.com 11/22/2008 — That was the view of Eric Holder, Oama's choice for Attorney General, in a CNN inteview in 2002 (as recalled by the WSJ today):
One of the things we clearly want to do with these prisoners is to have an ability to interrogate them and find out what ...
German High School Shooting
outsidethebeltway.com 3/11/2009 — A shooting spree at a German high school has killed at least 10 people and wounded untold others.
This tragedy will come as a shock to most in the United States, as our media treat rampages by gunmen as a uniquely American phenomenon made possible only by our lax firearms laws.
AP’s ...
The German problem
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 12/10/2008 — A brief note on real economic issues. Everyone here seems to be talking about two things: the fate of the auto industry, which is in almost as much trouble in Sweden as it is in the United States, and the German problem. At a time when expansionary ...
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