Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "World History" channel.

  1.  @davidkahil5158  so, my uncle lied, thousands of prisoners lied, camp logs lied, guards lied, the rest of the liberating Allies lied and photographs and film lied. Gotya.
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  2. Only those who weren't beaten to death by the former prisoners. Something surprising, given how poor the prisoner's condition was! My uncle took part in liberating one camp, he only spoke in whispers on rare occasions of what he saw, but he had an absolute hatred of the SS. He liked the rest of the German people, just the SS were hated by him and honestly, from what little I overheard and learned later from camp survivors, that hatred was quite well and hard earned. Also remember, Waffen SS were summarily executed at times in reprisal for war crimes, which is allowed under the Geneva Conventions. They executed prisoners, members of that command also got executed in reprisal, ordered by the commanding general, so as to keep the reprisal within the scope of the crime.
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  3. I think we need a smaller door... Done to Chief Brody's "We need a bigger boat" in Jaws. Nothing was too bad for those monstrous bastards.
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  4.  @rickallen1908  no, we're better at one thing. Causing mass extinctions.
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  5. @Jane Tannerevans I dunno, more like being an incompetent toady to the core, so doing whatever abominable thing that was asked of him. His defense of "I was only following orders" was his own damnation and one thing that set me off when Bush the Lesser tried to offer that as a defense for torture. He should've been able to tell when his own generals flinched with that announcement!
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  6. "Look at the world today", because we have concentration camps somewhere, with cyanide gas "showers" and big ovens to destroy remains? I'll wait to see an example of one. As for torturing them to death, it's easy for a civilized man to stoop to barbarity, but hard to climb back up and remain civilized after. You simply perpetuate the malady, while claiming that spreading the malady is a cure. That said, had they had miscalculated the drop and she strangled instead of her neck breaking, I'd not lose sleep over it. Another not so wonderful of a specimen of the dregs of humanity was hanged and took a half hour to strangle to death, with absolutely no mourning by any concerned, he was just as monstrous. But, that's a short term error in execution by an unskilled executioner, not a deliberate torture for months or longer. Or should we start issuing out white hats and black hats so we can tell the "good guys" from the bad guys?
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  7.  @nwbklr  not necessarily, as the great vessels of the neck would be compressed and denying the brain of significant levels of oxygen.
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