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JayhawkSD

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2. War is an insane and inhumane experience by definition.

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 09:04 AM

Mar 2018

When you have spent months battling your way to a city and seen your comrades in arms blown up, maimed and killed in large numbers and in horrible ways, when you reach the center of the home of the nation you have been fighting and you have survived hell, and know that it is over and that you have "won" the battle, you go insane. Not "nuts" or "crazy" but literally insane. You are in the middle of the people that have been killing your people and trying to kill you for ages. You have been in a long and bloody fight for your life and everything has been about death.

Clearly, you have never fought for your life and seen your brethren killed by the dozen, or you would not be able to babble nonsense about "boundaries" and "exerting their power on others."

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Rapes during the Battle of Berlin, and my Reichstag guide [View all] steve2470 Mar 2018 OP

The evidence of the 100k births proves unwritten history is lying. democratisphere Mar 2018 #1

War is an insane and inhumane experience by definition. JayhawkSD Mar 2018 #2

War does not give one license to engage in totally f'ing barbaric behavior. democratisphere Mar 2018 #5

License? War is, repeat IS, "totally f'ing barbaric behavior." JayhawkSD Mar 2018 #6

Unfortunately, it often does Pope George Ringo II Mar 2018 #9

I've seen and read interviews of German rape survivors thucythucy Mar 2018 #11

Of course there were rapes during the sack of Berlin. JayhawkSD Mar 2018 #3

yes of course steve2470 Mar 2018 #4

"...and just kept my mouth shut to avoid disrupting the tour." JayhawkSD Mar 2018 #8

thanks! steve2470 Mar 2018 #10

East Prussia might actually have gotten it worse Pope George Ringo II Mar 2018 #7

When was your tour? thucythucy Mar 2018 #12

a few weeks ago steve2470 Mar 2018 #13

Interesting. thucythucy Mar 2018 #14

he was in his fifties like me, so not that older really nt steve2470 Mar 2018 #15

You'll probably never know. thucythucy Mar 2018 #16

yep saw Potsdam and two of the palaces steve2470 Mar 2018 #17

Sounds great! thucythucy Mar 2018 #18