A smaller museum in Houston once had an exhibit on War World II. And on one of the posts of the building was taped a typewritten essay with no further fanfare.
NO FOOD
The writer was talking about her and her family's experience during the war when she was a child. They lived in either an occupied territory or in Germany itself. And I'm fairly confident that famine came first to the occupied territories, and late in the war, to Germany itself, probably first to poor people, then the middle classes, and then probably even to rich people.
NO FOOD
That's what she wrote in red magic marker between some of the well-written paragraphs which talked about all kinds of stuff. It certainly made an impression on me.
I know that when he was occupying Japan, Douglas MacArthur overruled a security decision and let Japanese fishing boats go out of the harbor for their daily fishing, including going past U.S. naval vessels, probably with the unstated understanding that there had better not be any problems.
Well, hunting is generally not as good as fishing, but all the same, maybe U.S. authorities in Germany could have done something similar. You're just being decent and middle-of-the-road. You might even make an extra effort to not just arm the shopkeeper class or whatever class in your best judgement was most pro-Nazi, but a much broader class of Germans.
NO FOOD
Human beings do have a tendency to forget past kindnesses in favor of the here and now. We are hierarchical creatures and we do escalate, probably a lot more than we should. But the occupations did go relatively well in both Japan and Germany, doesn't mean we did everything right, but we probably did do some high probability things we can well learn from.
NO FOOD
The writer was talking about her and her family's experience during the war when she was a child. They lived in either an occupied territory or in Germany itself. And I'm fairly confident that famine came first to the occupied territories, and late in the war, to Germany itself, probably first to poor people, then the middle classes, and then probably even to rich people.
NO FOOD
That's what she wrote in red magic marker between some of the well-written paragraphs which talked about all kinds of stuff. It certainly made an impression on me.
I know that when he was occupying Japan, Douglas MacArthur overruled a security decision and let Japanese fishing boats go out of the harbor for their daily fishing, including going past U.S. naval vessels, probably with the unstated understanding that there had better not be any problems.
Well, hunting is generally not as good as fishing, but all the same, maybe U.S. authorities in Germany could have done something similar. You're just being decent and middle-of-the-road. You might even make an extra effort to not just arm the shopkeeper class or whatever class in your best judgement was most pro-Nazi, but a much broader class of Germans.
NO FOOD
Human beings do have a tendency to forget past kindnesses in favor of the here and now. We are hierarchical creatures and we do escalate, probably a lot more than we should. But the occupations did go relatively well in both Japan and Germany, doesn't mean we did everything right, but we probably did do some high probability things we can well learn from.
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