jihadi john dead?

[Megazone]

I'm pretty sure the Butcher of Belsen was a Nazi, that he was an officer and that it was a nickname rather than his given name but I'm happy to be corrected that point.

The Beast of Belsen according to Wiki.

 

[Buzzer]

Agreed.

Good. So we can stop all this nonsense about the papers and their readers thinking he's a super-terrorist.

 

[Megazone]

Good. So we can stop all this nonsense about the papers and their readers thinking he's a super-terrorist.

Let people think for themselves. I see it as war propaganda.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Let people think for themselves. I see it as war propaganda.

There's always propaganda in a war situation, from both sides. That's a given. Most people are wise enough to think for themselves.

 

[drew]

One of my first thoughts was linking this with yesterday's death penalty thread.

I'm wholly against such a sentence and yet am quite happy with this, although on certain basic levels they are one of the same.

'You've killed so the state will kill you'.

On that principle this is worse as it least the sentence is handed down after a trial.
But once again if the news is true, I agree with the action taken.

Have to disagree. I'm against the death penalty but whilst I think it would have been preferable to capture him and let him spend the rest of his life in jail, I do differentiate between a convicted murderer being given a death penalty and someone in a combat zone who is 'the enemy' being killed.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Erm, I thought we were talking about people in combat?

Can you name me any Nazi soldiers who received nicknames from the British press?

The Angel of Death?

 

[8ace]

Can you name me any Nazi soldiers who received nicknames from the British press?

Rommel.

 

[Buzzer]

The Beast of Belsen according to Wiki.

Christ on a bike. You claim that no Nazi had nicknames, I give you an example and then tell me he had a different name!

For the record he was also known as the Butcher of Belsen but if you want another you could have the Butcher of Lyon.

Or if that's no good then Heydrich was known as the Hangman, Mengele as the Angel of Death.

Bad people get nicknames. Can we now accept that point?

 

[Hillian1]

The Angel of Death?

Mengele?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The Hangman is another.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Mengele?

Correct.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Erm, I thought we were talking about people in combat?

Can you name me any Nazi soldiers who received nicknames from the British press?

The Butcher of Lyon?

Goes back far earlier too to Germans in World War One such as The Red Baron.

As usual I'm not sure what your point is other than that you think for yourself but neither accurately nor clearly.

 

[Megazone]

The Angel of Death?

Wasn't he a Nazi physician?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The Poison Dwarf is another. There's quite a few if you Google.

 

[Hillian1]

I seem to recall the entire Japanese nation being portrayed as small and short sighted for exactly the same reason.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The Butcher of Lyon?

Goes back far earlier too to Germans in World War One such as The Red Baron.

As usual I'm not sure what your point is other than that you think for yourself but neither accurately nor clearly.

Let's not forget The Butcher of Leigh-On-Sea.

 

[Buzzer]

Wasn't he a Nazi physician?

This is textbook from you. You make an absurd and incorrect statement, get proven wrong, refuse to accept it and resort to pedantry to save face.

For the record Mengele was a Nazi captain.

 

[rool]

The Poison Dwarf is another. There's quite a few if you Google.

Lucy Ewing?

 

[Hillian1]

The Poison Dwarf is another. There's quite a few if you Google.

The Daddy of them all.

The Little Corporal.

 

[dazzer6666]

Seems there were quite a few

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=25771

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nicknames_of_Nazis