geteilt von: https://lemmy.ca/post/42877331
cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/6224801
Michael Gloss, 21, was the son of CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation Julianne Gallina Gloss, and Iraq war veteran Larry Gloss.
Before arriving in Russia on August 13, 2023, Gloss was travelling around Europe. On his Vkontakte page bio, he wrote: “I ran away from home (and) traveled the world. I hate fascism.”
On April 4, 2024, he was killed, likely during a Russian offensive near Bakhmut, however, his burial in the U.S. did not take place until December 2024, Important Stories reports.
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I recognise one of those names: Hans Speidel was part of the plot to assassinate Hitler (by detonating a briefcase explosive), and was later arrested by the Gestapo. He also famously didn’t relay Hitler’s orders to bombard Paris with V1 and V2 rockets to his superior.
I can kind of understand why someone like him led NATO forces.
Don’t know about the rest of them though.
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Why…? Did you look at a geopolitical map of Europe during that period? If you did you’d act less surprised that the commander of the NATO forces of central Europe happens to often be a high ranking officer from central Europe. Germany specifically, the very country cut in half between west and east alignment and the epicenter of a lot of cold war shit, and not from Italy or Belgium or Denmark which are not located in Central Europe. Give the tankie conspiracies a rest.
Nobody tell this guy about Operation Paperclip
Your sentiment here betrays a misunderstanding of the way war works. People who fight in wars for years or decades (which was very common at the point in history you’re referencing) were often “just” in the business of fighting in wars. There were people who fought on two different sides of the same “ideological” conflict. The mechanics of fighting a war are fairly separate from the political and ideological ends of the war.
The most simple answer: We wanted as many Germans to eventually use against the Soviets. Anyone who was not a big name was kept around for the eventual return of the West German Military. Same with scientists and operation paperclip. The soviets did the same to eventually be used against the rest of Europe.