Jesus Hernandez
a result of our conversations on the last post "The English Holocaust" came into my mind another interesting book about human beings, that human being so lovely and higher nature.
still remember the face of the last seller in the book fair in my town with my purchase. I saw in his eyes as he counted and looked at me askance as I thought 10 euros .. "human depravity knows no age, no sex" .. 20 euros,,, 40 euros, "Spain was a country estate," "My Struggle "...." 50 worst massacres in history, "and many others like that ..... I think I still look askance when we crossed at the lights .... Not that
I just read books of massacres and assassinations, not to admire these dictators, is that since I have use for political reason my curiosity about these characters of history, dictators, murderers, saviors of the nation, has no limits . Is the need to know what makes a normal person, without shaft (as my mother would say) on historical capable of committing the worst atrocities. And parents, who in his name, are to be true murderers.
One of the most shocking books on World War II is "Those men gray (Edhasa, 2002), by Christopher Browning. In these pages, Browning, one of the most recognized historians of Nazism and the Holocaust, explains the history of Battalion 101, a police unit made up of professional middle-class Germans, many of them married with children, who became a matter of minutes in a cool group of murderers, capable of carrying 1,500 Jews, including women and children, July 12, 1942 in the Polish city of Jozefow. Of the 500 men who made up this unit, only a dozen refused to participate in the massacre. The rest, a whopping 97.6 percent, effectively complied with the orders. After the war, they all returned to their family life and their activities as if nothing had happened, a process similar to that experienced thousands of other Nazi war criminals. It was not until the sixties when 210 of those gray men had to confront a dark past, the court questioning about the horrific crimes they committed.
The book in question covers the entire historical range possible, from massacres in the year 1,500 BC until as recently as 2007. So, unfortunately, there will be sequels. Tells the first defeat of the Romans by Arminius, leader of the tribe of the Cherusci. What is called slaughter is no longer the fight itself, but of those who were alive or attempted to flee, they were cruelly slaughtered or burned alive. One of the young officers who escaped Casio called Chaerea, which became the seed of killing the emperor Caligula. The loss was so traumatic for the Romans that the numbers of those three legions (XVII, XVIII and XIX) did not come to be used throughout the military history of the Roman Empire.
But there are others: the Praetorian closed the circus of Thessaloniki when it was full of people and killed all the spectators. As Rapporteurship Theodoret: As in harvesting the wheat, were all harvested at once. The massacre lasted four hours.
The description of a massacre of the Crusaders by Raimundo de Aguilers us see how these killings were:
"Marvelous Entertainment glad our sight. Some of us, the most merciful, cut off the heads of the Muslims, others were made targets of their arrows, others went further and dragged them into the fires. In the streets and squares of Jerusalem were not more than piles of heads, hands and feet. Much blood was spilled in the mosque built on the Temple of Solomon, the bodies floating in it and blood in many places knee-us. "
speaks of the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572. The Protestants were killed by Christians in a slaughter that lasted several days. Women and children were dragged through the streets, put to the sword and their bodies thrown into the Seine, and found out why it is so hated Oliver Cromwell in Ireland, since its conquest resulted in the death or exile of between 15 and 20 percent of the Irish population.
also speaks to the slaughter that whites inflicted on the Indians. In 1864, Colonel Chivingon say: The Cheyenne will be severely punished, or completely eliminated, they stay silent forever. I say if any of them are caught outside their area, the only thing you can do with them is to kill, and in another speech he said: You have to kill and cut off their hair at all, big and small. Including children in the policy responded to nits become lice. For this charming man attacked a peaceful Indian village whose men were hunting bison on the time of slaughter. Although they raised the white flag to hear how they came, Chivington ordered the attack on the camp unprotected. They killed women and children, babies in the hands of their mothers, a witness claimed to see a pregnant woman that India had opened up and down the belly and the baby at her side. Dismounted attackers to maul and cut the hair of the victims. He had already warned: I am completely satisfied with the idea of \u200b\u200bkilling them [the Indians] is the only way to have peace and tranquility in Colorado, or I'll kill Indians and I think it is fair and honorable to use every means that God has placed in our power to kill Indians. This God must be an arms dealer, no doubt.
course, when the Indians caught the conquerors not walked with contemplations. At Fort Kearney, "The Hill of Slaughter" (1866), the officer who collected the testimonies wrote: Eyes gouged out and abandoned on the rocks, noses and ears cut off, cut short jaws, teeth knocked out, brains removed and placed on rocks, guts extracted and exposed, severed hands, feet cut off, arms ripped, torn pudenda. Eyes, mouths and hands pierced by spears. Severed skulls of all possible ways, muscles of legs, thighs, stomachs, breasts, arms, torn from their site. During the winter, the Indians took shelter from the cold and it was time that the Americans, commanded by Custer decided to attack. Swooped on the village. One woman was in her arms a white boy about 10 years from a kidnapping. When the soldiers came to save him, she killed him instantly. Although most of those who died were women and children, it was hailed as a great military victory.
would not be alone. After some frustrations and failures in finding a particular Indian tribe, the commander decided to attack a camp Baker neighbor. It had nothing to do with the former, on the contrary, maintained friendly relations with whites. Most of the warriors was hunting and American soldiers razed the town. The chief, Heavy Corridor, was killed when he was leaving his tent with an American flag that had been delivered by the army to ensure he would never be attacked. The camp was completely burned down, killing all the elderly, newborns and wounded. The only casualty of the Americans was Lieutenant Doan, who had fallen from his horse and had broken a leg, to die later from infection. General Sheridan expressed his full support to Baker and made todo lo posible por frenar la investigación. Sheridan, a su vez, contó con el apoyo del general William Sherman, el gran héroe nordista de la guerra civil, quien mintió a la prensa asegurando que la mayoría de victimas de aquel ataque eran guerreros armados. Nunca se emprendió una investigación oficial y la historia ha acabado por ignorar el episodio.
Como ya podréis intuir, intentar engañar a la población de las acciones del ejército es la regla y no la excepción, y sigue siendo algo muy actual. En la masacre de Wounded Knee, en la que murieron 320 sioux, el ejército llegó a condecorar a a los soldados del Séptimo de Caballería, pero los relatos en los que se explicaba la matanza women and children and the photos made cast doubt on the performance of the Army.
also tells a slaughter that had been allotted to the SS until 2001, when he knew he had been committed by the villagers themselves. Jews had lived with non-Jews, but when was the occupation by German troops, non-Jews came with axes, machetes and knives ready for those murdered in the village had shared with them so far. They kill with such enthusiasm that the images projected German cinemas to show that the persecution of Polish Jews came from the Polish people themselves. The Village Catholic clergy did nothing to prevent the faithful participate in the slaughter.
also talks about famous cases, such as the assault of the Munich Olympics of 1972, the school in Beslan or the My Lai.
One conclusion to be drawn after reading all these things is that the perpetrators almost never paid. And to some it honors, as Menachem Begin, who, above, won the Nobel Peace Prize 1978. Nor judged the Lebanese Phalange Elie Hobeika, considered the material responsible for the massacre of Sabra and Chatila, or are forgiving as they did with the guerrillas who had carried out the slaughter of Sidi Rais as recently as 1997.
"The fact that the instigators or perpetrators of a slaughter end up paying his guilt is, unfortunately, a historical exception. We could say that, paradoxically, the greater the number of people killed, the less likely that criminals are brought to justice someday. "
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