mai said:
What argument? Some defeatists said something that is totally expected from fifth column? I heard worse things from this kind of people. You should probably start quoting Philippe Petain to back up the idea of how 'morally' Wermacht steamrolled Allies in France. The chances are that French people are likely to disagree with you, afterall they convicted him for a reason. Those ingratitude bastards, treated Peten like a criminal! Really, discussion starts getting ridiculous. |
The entire arugement. Since you've completely invalidated it by calling the japanese peace party traitors. Something which you haven't backed off of... and have amusingly even went farther on.
Petain is an interesting choice... since he was indeed convicted by the jury, despite the fact that the three judges advising he should be aquitted. After he was found guilty and set to be exucuted DeGaulle intervened... and critisized the trial.
If anything your example shows how mass sentiment can cloud reality.... like FDR. Revisionist history sets in... and people start buying it.
Though really... even public sentiment of the time seemed to be WITH the peace party. When some survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki started a lawsuit, Japan was against them... including a decent number of people from hiroshima and nagasaki.
