Face to Faith
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1696692,00.html
Not only defeated nations commit atrocities in war - by forgiving their
actions we admit our own nation's guilt
Paul Oestreicher
Saturday January 28, 2006
The Guardian
'Please Sir, it was them that did it." Familiar playground language,
deeply ingrained. They did the evil deed, not us. When the Guardian, a
few weeks ago, published evidence that interrogation centres where
torture was systemic existed in the British zone of postwar occupied
Germany, I was shocked. There was even a British officer, looking every
bit the nasty Nazi, master-minding it all. This is what they do. Many
readers no doubt shared my moment of playground denial.
Paul Oestreicher
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