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SABATON - BISMARCK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nBRUujqLlQ
I assure you the survivors from the Bismarck were not tortured.
Mistreatment of prisoners occurred on the Eastern Front & in Russia,
especially by Einsatzgruppen & Bosnian fascists in Yugoslavia.
At the Battle of the Bulge, the Ardennes Offensive, the young Nazi
fanatics who broke through the America lines also committed torture
& murder. There were SS officers who had murdered thousands of Jews
and were executed for shooting a downed RAF pilot; it was their
personal decision not military policy. There were violations of the
Geneva Convention for captured soldiers on the Western Front but only a
small number.
Japanese soldiers committed many atrocities, murdering injured
soldiers in hospital beds & the nurses and doctors, Rape of Nanjing
which Japan still refuses to apologise for. Japan often refused to
recognise the Geneva and Haig Conventions. Japanese military concept of
honour was based upon the warrior notion of loyalty to the Emperor
& the ultra nationalism of a Japanese philosopher and not respect
for the enemy. Whereas even in Nazi Germany there was still a sense of
honouring your enemy, this was a value from the Imperial Germany days
that even extended to the SS at times, but Hilter,Himmler & other
Nazis did try to erase that and wanted merciless killing. That did
happen on the Eastern Front , and towards Slav and Eastern Jews that
they considered Untermenschen
The end of the video with British sailors helping up German is wholly accurate.The film 'Sink the Bismarck' has a number of errors. It portrays Grand Admiral Lutjens as pro Nazi, the officer lying on the floor of the bridge,injured. In fact he was vehemently anti Nazi. He was one of only 3 fleet officers (admirals) who signed an open letter condemning Kristallnacht , refused to give the Nazi salute or fly the Swastika.
Hitler had been trying to clear the High Command of anti-Nazis since 1933. The Lutjens had Jewish in laws via his wife Margarete Backenköhle. Jewish persecution was already at its full extent, but German people of mixed Jewish-non Jewish families had an exemption if they served in the military, specialist occupations or WWI veterans- but Himmler was against this & wanted them all deported to the death camps . In 1944 Himmler managed to get his way & ordered all the remaining Jewish men, most of course were already murdered, to report to the post office prior to deportation. The women blocked the roads to the central Berlin post office to prevent this & their is a monument to their heroism. The order was rescinded in the public outcry.
You are right about camaraderie, at the First Gulf War there were officers from my former naval college serving I was following the news updates more avidly/concern than I already do because of that, happened spontaneously not planned, and Dad was getting updates about his regiment. There was no joy about Iraqi troops being killed, they were fellow combatants sent into battle because of politicians making a mess of things again
Additional thought.Martin Niemöller was Germany's most successful U-boat captain in World War I. He then became a pacifist & a Lutheran pastor. He quickly rejected the Nazi government as did many German Conservatives for their abuse of legal process & human rights . & for having elements of the Far Left & revolution although that had decreased a lot since 1924. He wrote the "First The Came..." poem . Due to his Lutheran beliefs he was anti-semitic in the 30s in as much he believed that Jews would be punished for the Crucifixion.
In January 1946 he gave an anti-Nazi speech at Berlin University he had to escape when the students charged the stage with the intention of killing him for being anti-Nazi; this is after the liberation of the death camps. There were a number of post war Nazi political groups. The Socialist Reich Party was outlawed in 1952 only after it got 80,000 votes in Saxony & threateningly close to have MPs elected
RAMMSTEIN RADIO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jcMhgfmvlE
One of the few sources of independent news that East Germans and in other authoritarian regimes were able to access, banned by their governments was the BBC World Service. Rock music was banned is most Communist countries as it was classified as Western, degenerate and capitalist. Meanwhile is West Germany some of the most experimental music was being made: Stockhausen & Kraut Rock
YOu're referring to the Devil's Interval aka Devil's Tritone. TOny IOmmi used it a lot inearly SAbbath. NIB & the notes of the Black SAbbath song, the latter is a broken chord of the tritone
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