The Incident At Bamber Bridge—The British stand up for Black American soldiers

@JSul3 A friend whose family came from Germany told me her family and neighbors were terrified of the Russian soldiers; that when they came through a town there were things they did to the civilians as a matter of course that the other allies were much less likely to do. 😞

@bijouxbroussard Yes ...it's called rape and pillage.

@JSul3 I’m aware. During their Ukrainian "campaigns" there were widespread reports of the same behavior. 🥺

@ChipmunkErnie That it was our collective fantasy was belied by the laws we established at various points in our history, deliberately shutting groups of people out of that dream.

@bijouxbroussard Yes, but the dream still endured somehow and slow progress was made. Sadly, we now appear to be backsliding under the current administration. :'(

@ChipmunkErnie I’m old enough to remember when there was a prayer for improvement; that’s what kept most of us going. I can only hope that’s not destroyed this time around.

@SunshineGirl A fine man told me many years ago, that when a black regiment of soldiers entered a city in Europe, the citizens were safe because they knew for certain they weren't Nazis.

@DrWatson It’s in the books some who taught American history had a very bad case of amnesia. LOL

@DrWatson It’s definitely not something they want taught about now.

@bijouxbroussard it’s so sad to hear so many people would rather be taught by history instead of reading about and applying the facts and lessons learned.
See that why a lot of people are against science; because science is just that.

@FreddieUK Nope. Segregation was still the law of the land in much of the U.S. then, although President Harry Truman stopped it from being a practice in the armed services as of July 26, 1948, via Executive order 9981. When Pop served during the Korean Conflict, the Navy was integrated.

@JSul3 No; anti-sémitism and racism was a fact of life in Europe before the United States was even established.

The colonists brought those attitudes with them wherever they settled throughout the world.

What the Nazis did learn from us were some particularly diabolical ways of treating the people they considered expendable, thanks to our Eugenics movement.

@bijouxbroussard Agree.
Hitler studied the Jim Crow laws as well.

@JSul3 Yes, it explains why their Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were almost identical.