HIST 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Katyn Massacre, Stepan Bandera, Greek Civil War
18 Nov 2016
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Postwar justice and the fall of the iron curtain. The hungry are seeking any way to survive. Another basic primal need overcame the peoples of europe -- the need for revenge . Those who survived the brutality of the nazis had a sense that they must be punished. Even allied soldiers sometimes became detached, as we"ve seen in some avenues, executed their own forms of justice. The gis were so overwhelmed by the horrors of the camps, they took it upon themselves to shoot the germans. One lieutenant at dachau executed 400 former guards with a machine gun. In april 1945, at bergen-belsen, prisoners, led by communists, killed 170 of their guards, with rifles they"d been hiding since 1942. Retribution in spring and summer of typified by wild, spasmodic violence. But it was gradually replaced by more organized and measured forms of justice. In the northern italian countryside, french moroccan troops,felt like they had the right to kill.
