Slave Soldiers

[Puckstop31]

Hooah! Salute!

[Grace]

blue, that stopped me in my tracks also.

So did several other items –

the government in 1948 commuted the death sentences of two Berga commanders, Erwin Metz and his superior, Hauptmann Ludwig Merz. – why on earth would they do this?

Then the documents they had to sign – not to talk about escapes, people who had assisted them, people who had helped them.. Okay, that is reasonable – protecting those that assisted them. But the government must have worded those documents poorly – if all the men thought they were not to speak of the camp at all – ever again.

[blue]

blue, that stopped me in my tracks also.

So did several other items –

the government in 1948 commuted the death sentences of two Berga commanders, Erwin Metz and his superior, Hauptmann Ludwig Merz. – why on earth would they do this?

That brings much angry for me.

Then the documents they had to sign – not to talk about escapes, people who had assisted them, people who had helped them.. Okay, that is reasonable – protecting those that assisted them. But the government must have worded those documents poorly – if all the men thought they were not to speak of the camp at all – ever again.

That is the injustice that can never be righted. I can understand not naming names if those that helpped POWs escape cant be protected, but to keep silent?

[smokey the elder]

The general admitted that the exit paperwork was poorly worded.

The honor for these soldiers was way overdue. I'm glad they were acknowledged while a few of them were still alive.

[Laura's Babies]

My heart goes out to those men having had to go trhough that and then being told not to talk about it... It was a horriable thing that happened to them and they couldn't talk about it? How were they suppose to heal? That was SO wrong!