Certainly not America's finest hour,and do not worry fans of the game. We are diligently looking for that hour when I am told America was once great. Sucker is a slippery dog for sure,and likes to play in the mud....

[...“Americans torture Germans to extort confessions,’” ran British headlines. “An ugly story of barbarous tortures inflicted in the name of allied justice. . . . strong men were reduced to broken wrecks ready to mumble any admission demanded by their prosecutors.”61

Embarrassed and aghast, many Americans were horror-struck.Viewing Allied atrocities against Germany as a whole, it was, said Henrik Shipstead on the floor of the US Senate,“America’s eternal monument of shame, the Morgenthau Plan for the destruction of the German speaking people.”62 Although Henry Morgenthau was gone—ousted by President Truman—and although some of the more savage aspects of the plan had been shelved, the agreement signed by the victorious Allies at Potsdam was in many respects even more draconian than the original.

Even as the chorus of critics over the sadistic treatment of Germany grew, a nightmare of almost unbelievable proportions was developing behind the Iron Curtain. Here, in the centuries-old provinces of Prussia, Pomerania, but especially Silesia, the seeds sown at Yalta and Potsdam bore a rich and terrible fruit. What transpired in this former German region was, announced an American historian at the time, “the most staggering atrocity in all history. It is deliberate, it is brutal, it is enormous—and it is an Allied crime. It is an American, British, Russian, Morgenthau, Potsdam crime.”63

It was, an American bishop said simply, “the greatest crime of the age.”64.....]
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