Perspective
The following is an account of a Jewish-American POW from WW2:
from here:
http://www.tacitus.org/comments/2004/6/8/12307/20735/168#168
It occurs to me to add something. I was a prisoner of war. I was held in an unregistered hospital for miscellaneous captives, some American, and a few Russian, prisoners of war and a lot of other miscellaneous sick or injured prisoners, Italians, Poles, black African troops, some of whom had been prisoners for five years or more.
When I was captured, I gave my name, rank and serial number. I was asked my age, and I declined to give it. But in a German hospital shortly thereafter, I was asked my religion and I bellowed "Jew!" "Jude!" I added in case he didn't get it in English.
I suffered no mistreatment whatever. I was starved. I had to march many weary miles, wounded and sick, but I got the same medical care they gave their own walking wounded infantry. It wasn't much, for Germans or Americans, but what there was, I got.
The Goddam Nazis did not do to a Jewish American POW what this Administration suffers to be done to the hapless people it imprisons!"
( personal rambling here... )
from here:
http://www.tacitus.org/comments/2004/6/8/12307/20735/168#168
It occurs to me to add something. I was a prisoner of war. I was held in an unregistered hospital for miscellaneous captives, some American, and a few Russian, prisoners of war and a lot of other miscellaneous sick or injured prisoners, Italians, Poles, black African troops, some of whom had been prisoners for five years or more.
When I was captured, I gave my name, rank and serial number. I was asked my age, and I declined to give it. But in a German hospital shortly thereafter, I was asked my religion and I bellowed "Jew!" "Jude!" I added in case he didn't get it in English.
I suffered no mistreatment whatever. I was starved. I had to march many weary miles, wounded and sick, but I got the same medical care they gave their own walking wounded infantry. It wasn't much, for Germans or Americans, but what there was, I got.
The Goddam Nazis did not do to a Jewish American POW what this Administration suffers to be done to the hapless people it imprisons!"
( personal rambling here... )