Chilling letter from a Stalingrad Veteran compares W to Hitler & Gobbels

The following letter is in the print-version of the 24 Dec. UK Guardian 2002:


Listening to the call-to-war noises made by Bush, Blair, Rumsfield and Straw, forcefully reminds me of the noises made by Hitler and Gobbels to justify their planned attacks on other countries. As I had been "educated" in the Hitler youth, I believed every word they were saying, as well as in their superior intelligence and honourable patriotic intentions.

However, about three years in to the war, trudging back through the white hell after having lost the battle of Stalingrad, I began to wake up to the fact that my trust in my leaders had been betrayed. It was then, walking back through the regions our triumphant advance in the previous summer had laid waste, that I realized the unmeasurable crime we had committed against the ordinary Soviet people - and all for the sake of reaching he rich oilfields to the southeast on behalf of our masters.

There is still time to stop and think and remind our leaders of the consequences of war, which they themselves have never experienced.

Henry Metelmann
Godalming, Surrey,
United Kingdom

"Honorable intentions" - a chilling phrase. This doctrine of "pre-emptive war" will bring this nation down (coupled with rolling back the New Deal and corrupting the domestic political process). Thank you for a much-needed historical perspective.

at least he got gassed. Bush? He snorted lines... :shrug:

EOM

Will open your eyes to what these guys are living in in Iraq