ALBUFEIRA

“Existem mais norte-americanos que acreditam no Diabo do que no Sonho Americano – motivo pelo qual muitos dos seus políticos afirmam falar diariamente com Deus” (!?)

II Guerra Mundial

Os Campos da Morte de Eisenhower

(Martin Brech – Humans Are Free)

Campo de Concentração Aliado de Andernach

Alemanha

1945

Alguns dos factos:

• 50,000 prisoners;

• I encountered a captain on a hill above the Rhine shooting down at a group of German civilian women with his .45 caliber pistol. When I asked, “Why?,” he mumbled, “Target practice,” and fired until his pistol was empty; 

• They considered the Germans subhuman and worthy of extermination;

• These prisoners, I found out, were mostly farmers and workingmen, as simple and ignorant as many of our own troops. As time went on, more of them lapsed into a zombie-like; 

• Whenever a German prisoner staggered or dropped back, he was hit on the head with a club and killed;

• I remember an eighteen-year old woman who had the side of her faced smashed with a rifle butt, and was then raped by two G.I.; 

• So what? The enemy’s atrocities were worse than ours;

• Since I spoke out a few weeks ago, I have received threatening calls and had my mailbox smashed. But it’s been worth it. Writing about these atrocities has been a catharsis of feelings suppressed too long, a liberation that perhaps will remind other witnesses that “the truth will make us free, have no fear.” 

(Martin Brech – humansarefree.com)