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[+] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone -8 points 5 months ago* (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) Why are you hellbent on slandering someone as a war criminal, even though there has never been a single allegation that he committed a single act that would count as a war crime? The dude was using a makeshift mortar to fire at densely populated urban areas even though using mortars where forbidden because the amount of civilians that got murdered was to high even for the us army standards. https://imgur.com/a/wY3l0Ki https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/e613vv/iraq_us_marines_in_ramadi_use_an_mk19_grenade/ And no, it is an obscure symbol, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. It was on one of the only two symbols on the head of Heinrich Himmler. It was on every camp guard uniform. It was so ubiquitous and well known, a british comedy show made a sketch about it 60 years later and everybody knew what they meant. Get the fuck outta here talking about the "obscure" SS units that manned the concencentration camps. Talk about disingenous... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) Why are you hellbent on slandering someone as a war criminal, even though there has never been a single allegation that he committed a single act that would count as a war crime? The dude was using a makeshift mortar to fire at densely populated urban areas even though using mortars where forbidden because the amount of civilians that got murdered was to high even for the us army standards. https://imgur.com/a/wY3l0Ki https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/e613vv/iraq_us_marines_in_ramadi_use_an_mk19_grenade/ And no, it is an obscure symbol, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. It was on one of the only two symbols on the head of Heinrich Himmler. It was on every camp guard uniform. It was so ubiquitous and well known, a british comedy show made a sketch about it 60 years later and everybody knew what they meant. Get the fuck outta here talking about the "obscure" SS units that manned the concencentration camps. Talk about disingenous... permalink fedilink source parent