Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

A German Pilot Stopped Fighting to Save a Damaged American B-17

During the five grim years of World War 2, all of the countries involved created an effective propaganda system that portrayed enemy soldiers as monsters who deserved nothing more than death.

British, American, German, Russian, and Japanese army departments were tasked with creating a false reality where stereotypes, r****m, and discrimination were used to humiliate the enemy and increase the hatred between adversaries.

However, the reality of war was often different.

On the Western Front, enemies were mostly treated with respect, according to old laws of war. Although it may seem unlikely, acts of honor and soldier camaraderie depicting the ancient Warrior Ethos were no strange thing to the Second World War soldiers.

Especially among air force pilots, mutual respect and acts of honor shared by aviators resembled the medieval acts of chivalry.

A young 21-year-old USAF pilot, Charlie Brown, experienced first-hand the virtuous conduct exhibited by a Luftwaffe pilot during a bombing raid when his B-17 bomber was severely damaged and about to go down.

After the German pilot, Franz Stigler, realized the American crew was defenseless, he took the dangerous decision of escorting the aircraft to safety across German-controlled territory.

It was an almost unbelievable tale of two pilots that met each other as enemies in the skies of WW2, survived, and died as best friends and real kamaraden.

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I found that if I click on the "Gear" * in the lower right corner and change the playback speed to 75% it was easier for me to understand.

WinkyTink Loc: Hill Country, TX

The same behavior is also detectable in sport. In our fervor to win, we take on a “h**e the opponent/enemy” attitude to focus us on our goals. At the same mutual respect takes over based in our commonality of cause.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Yes I believe that most "Warriors" are more respectable than the politicians who bring them to war.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Sadly, this. Looks a lot like propaganda to me.
Just saying !
Will the next comment be that N**is we’re good people , they just had bad leaders ?

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

There are always good people and bad people on all sides but one thing you can always be sure of is that when a liberal posts a comment here on OPP it is not true and is pure BS

WinkyTink Loc: Hill Country, TX

Our leaders must convince us to blindly k**l our enemy. In order to do that they must dehumanize them. Paint them to be the devil incarnate. Make them easy to shoot. Survival instinct is part of this.

On the field of battle, observation of the death, suffering and destruction and by necessity, contact with the enemy/people re-humanizes them.

I’m sure there are better words to describe this but it happens in sports and business too. The biggest slice of humble I had to eat was when the company I worked for bought our largest competitor. I soon realized that those filthy rascals were now on my side and consisted of talented,!well mannered people, not at all the jackasses I imagined them to be.

With few exceptions, if allowed, civility comes in and trumps the ridiculous, synthetic hatred. Of course this happens in sports.

Oddly enough, at one time it happened in politics. Maybe it still does at the uni-party level where there is little sunlight.
Out in the open it is completely absent fueled by the msm, anonymity, and continual desire to render the enemy powerless and mute. Now, visualize a three year old having a hissy fit.


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