“The anti-terror campaign that succeeded” [meus destaques e link]
After their military defeat by regular forces, the occupied population produced terrorists who engaged in bombings, sniping, poisonings, and other attacks on occupation forces and on the civilian population. They operated as irregulars in small terror units, armed with automatic weapons and bazookas.
Women and minors as young as eight participated in the terror attacks. They attempted to build weapons of mass destruction, using chemical poisons. They assassinated officials of the occupation regime. They had a special obsession with torturing and murdering “collaborators.” They murdered hundreds of civilians, while thousands of the terrorists themselves were killed by the occupation armed forces. The occupiers responded to terror with brutality and force, sometimes using collective punishment.
The above does notrefer to or describe the anti-American and anti-British terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nor does it describe Palestinian terrorism against Israel launched from the West Bank and Gaza.
What it does refer to is the campaign of terrorism directed against Allied forces in Europe in the aftermath of the defeat of Nazi Germany. The terrorists were members of a number of underground “resistance” organizations attempting to punish the Allied “occupiers” and drive them out. The most important of the terror groups was known as Werwolf (German for werewolf).
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How were those terrorists eventually defeated? With brutal military force and counter-terrorism combined with a long-term program of denazification of German civilians.
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Soviet troops dealt with the threat through mass executions, mass arrests, marauding, and arson directed against German civilians. Hostages were grabbed from areas where any Werwolf sabotage took place and often were summarily executed. Any Germans – even hunters – possessing any weapons were shot on the spot as terrorists. Any German witnessing terror attacks who did not come forward to testify about them was shot. Those hiding terrorists or weapons were shot and their homes burned to the ground.
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The French were second to the Soviets in the viciousness and ferocity of their suppression of Werwolf terrorism. French soldiers pillaged German areas as they fell under their control. Random beatings of Germans by the French were common. The French forcibly expelled all German civilians from numerous towns and villages in their area of control. General Le Clerc issued an edict on November 25, 1944 to shoot five Germans for every act of sniping near Strasbourg.
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While American troops generally avoided the excesses of the Soviets and French, they were sharply criticized by the British for using excessive brutality and force in suppressing the Werwolf. General Eisenhower ordered the execution of all Werwolf fighters captured in civilian garb.
It was understood among U.S. troops that they had a green light for applying frontier justice to terrorists, with no lawyers or trials. The counterinsurgency manual issued by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expedition Force (SHAEF) recommended that troops simply ignore Geneva Convention rules when dealing with the Werwolf.
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Other Allied forces were vicious in suppressing the Werwolf. The Czechoslovaks routinely tortured and abused captured terrorists. The most dramatic Czechoslovak actions took place in the Sudetenland. After some Czechs were murdered by the Werwolf, local authorities threatened to shoot all German refugees there who had arrived from Silesia.
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Canadian forces were also brutal in suppressing terrorism. Canadian General Chris Vokes carried out large-scale destruction of German property in retaliation for guerilla activities. Towns from which sniper fire was directed against Canadian troops were reduced to rubble. Orders were given to demolish buildings housing snipers rather than risk the lives of troops. German homes were bulldozed.
Estas tácticas anti-terroristas só resultaram porque as populações civis dos países ocupantes deram pouco valor à vida dos alemães e/ou não tiveram acesso à informação sobre tais atrocidades. Hoje, felizmente, o mesmo não acontece. A ocupação do Iraque é, por isso, um fracasso inevitável, sendo a retirada a única solução.
Nota: post a propósito de documentário ontem emitido no Canal de História.
Pedro Sette-Câmara
André Azevedo Alves
Carlos Guimarães Pinto
Helder Ferreira
Bruno Garschagen
João Luís Pinto
LA
Bruno Alves
Miguel Botelho Moniz
ruicarmo
Miguel Noronha
Elizabete Dias
António Costa Amaral (AA)
LT
Rui Oliveira
BZ
dos ∫antos
André Abrantes Amaral
planca12
rui a.
Rodrigo Adão da Fonseca
Adolfo Mesquita Nunes
Michael Seufert
Luciano
Carlos M. Fernandes
Maria João Marques
jtcb
Nuno Branco
elisabetejoaquim
filipeabrantes
Tomás Belchior
Bruno Gonçalves
Ricardo G. Francisco
Tiago Loureiro
Ricardo Campelo de Magalhães
Filipe Faria
Ricardo Arroja
Nem só por isso. É que no Iraque os agressores unilaterais são os terroristas cruzados, tal como os nazis o foram na II Guerra. O paralelismo correcto é pois:
americanos e respectivos caniches = nazis e colaboracionistas
heroíca resistência iraquiana e islâmica = resistências europeias ao ocupante nazi e tropas aliadas
O nazis hoje são os terroristas cruzados do terrorista mundial nºo 1, o candidato á forca Bush, e o Goebbels desta historieta mal contada é o BZ, o autor deste post manipulatório…
Comentário por Euroliberal — Julho 24, 2007 @ 16:09
Mas esteja descansado ó Gauleiter BZ, que a resistência islâmica tratará com a maior dureza todos os coloboracionistas dos cães cruzados e quanto à entidade nazi-sionista, pude crer que não vão perder pela demora. Os mártires serão vingados com o sangue de muiiiiiiiitos terroristas sionistas…
Comentário por Euroliberal — Julho 24, 2007 @ 16:14
Euroliberal,
Obrigado pelos seus comentários. Fizeram-me recordar o personagem Franz Liebkind.
Comentário por BZ — Julho 24, 2007 @ 16:26
Os Resisténcia Islâmica-tendência Euroliberal, gosta muito de escorrer sangue de transeuntes e feirantes Iraquianos…
Comentário por lucklucky — Julho 24, 2007 @ 16:50
Excelente post do Bz.
Comentário por André Azevedo Alves — Julho 24, 2007 @ 16:56