End of WW2 - 75th anniversary

[Maladict]

Peiper, who led thousands of men in Germany's last major offensive, was convicted of war crimes for a massacre of U.S. prisoners of war during the battle.

I agree with your sentiment, but I think war criminals convicted of killing US prisoners should not appear on a US military Facebook page, it seems in bad taste.

Again without seeing the context, but displaying a photo of Peiper in an article on the Battle of the Bulge and/or the Malmedy massacre should not necessarily cause outrage.

edit: I've now seen the photo and FB post. I'm taking more offense to the badly written article than the photo.

[jimmy olsen]

Peiper, who led thousands of men in Germany's last major offensive, was convicted of war crimes for a massacre of U.S. prisoners of war during the battle.

I agree with your sentiment, but I think war criminals convicted of killing US prisoners should not appear on a US military Facebook page, it seems in bad taste.

Again without seeing the context, but displaying a photo of Peiper in an article on the Battle of the Bulge and/or the Malmedy massacre should not necessarily cause outrage.

edit: I've now seen the photo and FB post. I'm taking more offense to the badly written article than the photo.

They could of used the real photo instead of one colorized in a glamour shot style by a fan on deviantart.

[Sheilbh]

Austria was first. 

China was first

[Razgovory]

He would have been hung if it were not for Joseph McCarthy.  Fortunately the French fixed that little problem.

[Eddie Teach]

Austria was first. 

China was first

Why not Ethiopia?

[Admiral Yi]

Ethiopia was 35, China (Manchuria) was 31.

That's why.

[Sheilbh]

Also China lasted the war and was a core part of the whole of WW2. You know, it's why they were first to sign the UN charter.

[Eddie Teach]

They were two separate wars until Japan attacked the US and Western colonies.

[Admiral Yi]

They were two separate wars until Japan attacked the US and Western colonies.

That's not exactly an argument in favor of Ethiopia 1st.

[Eddie Teach]

No. I was mistaken about when the Sino-Japanese war began.

[Valmy]

Also China lasted the war and was a core part of the whole of WW2. You know, it's why they were first to sign the UN charter.

But not long after the war...well at least the China that signed the UN charter.

Though I don't think it really go going until 1937, despite the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. That was sort of the warm up, the Asian version of the Spanish Civil War.

[Maladict]

Peiper, who led thousands of men in Germany's last major offensive, was convicted of war crimes for a massacre of U.S. prisoners of war during the battle.

I agree with your sentiment, but I think war criminals convicted of killing US prisoners should not appear on a US military Facebook page, it seems in bad taste.

Again without seeing the context, but displaying a photo of Peiper in an article on the Battle of the Bulge and/or the Malmedy massacre should not necessarily cause outrage.

edit: I've now seen the photo and FB post. I'm taking more offense to the badly written article than the photo.

They could of used the real photo instead of one colorized in a glamour shot style by a fan on deviantart.

Yes definitely, I'll give you that. Does fit with the general fanboi style of that FB account, though.

[Sheilbh]

Also China lasted the war and was a core part of the whole of WW2. You know, it's why they were first to sign the UN charter.

But not long after the war...well at least the China that signed the UN charter.

Though I don't think it really go going until 1937, despite the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. That was sort of the warm up, the Asian version of the Spanish Civil War.

Yeah. Agreed, I mean 1937 when Japan fully invades China.

[Maladict]

75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, tomorrow

[KRonn]

75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, tomorrow

Still an emotional event even after all these years.