Monday, September 7, 2009

Some World War II Updates

Looking for Remains of the War Dead
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/world/europe/06search.html?hp
I was surprised to find out that there were 74,000 missing American servicemen from WWII.

Pope decries Holocaust
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09250/996159-82.stm
But will he admit that the Vatican should have taken a stronger stance against Nazism during the War?If Pius XII had issued a Bull arguing that anyone who supported the anti-semitism of the Nazis (or any of their other genocidal policies) was a disgrace to the religion it may have reduced the grass roots collaboration that facilitated the Nazi driven holocaust.

Wars of Choice and Wars of Necessity
http://www.canada.com/news/choice+fight/1965833/story.html
A good boost in an era when so many seem to have forgotten the reason why Hitler had to be stopped.

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