Which is crazy considering American and British troops shipped entire rifles and shit across the ocean. A watch is basically nothing like damn let a mf take a watch.
yeah like, the reason there’s such a big trade in Nazi memorbilia is because US troops love to loot. Like sexual violence, it’s a practice that’s inevitable in war unless strict penalties are instated for it.
I remember hearing someone say the additional watches were compasses or something similar for artillery, but its been too long for me to remember anything about where I heard it.
I so distinctly remember being told in highschool, about Soviets doctoring photos where red army soldiers had been wearing two watches
and the idf is just like sheroes dance on tiktok with items taken from the dead allegedly
Sure the Germans committed genocide but the Soviets took a dead Nazi’s watch, so who can really say who the bad guy is?
Which is crazy considering American and British troops shipped entire rifles and shit across the ocean. A watch is basically nothing like damn let a mf take a watch.
Or stolen art, jewelry, valuables, etc. There were entire underground logistics networks set up dedicated to smuggling contraband loot out of europe.
yeah like, the reason there’s such a big trade in Nazi memorbilia is because US troops love to loot. Like sexual violence, it’s a practice that’s inevitable in war unless strict penalties are instated for it.
The guys that captured Berlin and ended the holocaust were no angels.
I remember a reddit thread where they were all getting mad at a picture of a GI taking a captured SS Officer’s watch, the bootlicking was unreal.
I remember hearing someone say the additional watches were compasses or something similar for artillery, but its been too long for me to remember anything about where I heard it.
Probably somewhere around these parts
It wasn’t just any photograph that was allegedly doctored. It was this one.