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Religions > Atheism |
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"Yang, Fairer Than Fox and More Balanced than John Pointdexter" |
| Date: |
21 Aug 2003 08:37:50 PM |
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McCarthy Literally a Nazi Lover |
For those of you trying to resurrect Joe McCarthy:
"Coulter discusses McCarthy's impressive high school record in
considerable loving detail. But somehow she neglects to mention
McCarthy's first moment in the national spotlight. That was his
infamous 1949 campaign on behalf of Nazi S.S. officers who were
convicted of war crimes for the massacre of American troops in the
town of Malmedy during the Battle of the Bulge. On their orders, 83
American prisoners of war had been murdered by Waffen S.S.
machine-gunners. The S.S. officers were
sentenced to death, but McCarthy insisted that the entire case was a
frame-up, with confessions obtained by horrific torture. He intervened
in Senate hearings on the case and lied repeatedly during his defense
of the Nazi murderers. His most spectacular claim was that the
American investigators had crushed the testicles of German prisoners
as an interrogation technique. McCarthy was later shown to have served
as the pawn of neo-Nazi and communist provocateurs who were using the
Malmedy case to whip up anti-American sentiment in postwar Germany.
The main source for his false charges concerning Malmedy was a Germany
lawyer named Rudolf Aschenauer, whose closest ties were to the postwar
Nazi underground and to American right-wing isolationists, but who has
also been identified as a communist agent. Aschenauer testified at
U.S. Senate hearings in Germany that he had passed information about
Malmedy to McCarthy. The S.S. officers were guilty, as the Senate
report confirmed -- although most of them later got their death
sentences commuted in a gesture to former Nazi officials who aided the
West in the Cold War. But McCarthy had succeeded in his larger
purpose, winning publicity for himself and casting a negative light on
the war-crimes trials"
Joe Conason from salon.com
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Yang
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