[DocCasualty]

Since my other post, I've been paying more attention to the word NAZI in these ACME releases I found. Do you think the use of the word to describe "all that was German" was part of the US/Allied propaganda plan to villify the enemy?

[cyberia]

DocCasualty said:

Since my other post, I've been paying more attention to the word NAZI in these ACME releases I found. Do you think the use of the word to describe "all that was German" was part of the US/Allied propaganda plan to villify the enemy?

Sure, and it is all part of the propaganda machine that every nation used.

Same as in the cold war anything Russian was "red" and anything American was "capitalist".

Historical documents, or captions in this case, are fine. This is history as it appeared and was represented. Direct quotes from such material when used in posts should always be made with quote marks, which denotes them as such.

[DocCasualty]

From "The Left Corner of My Heart" by Dan Mogan, the story of the 551st PIB. This was a first person account from when they were stationed in Italy prior to their jump into Southern France in 1944.

S/Sgt Jack Carr, Hq Company supply sergeant (interview):

"Then we went to Lido di Roma on the coast. My unit set up in the old 22nd of October College and we did nothing at all for about a month. The guys used to go up toward Anzio because when the British Navy shelled that area they hit a zoo and the animals escaped. So the guys would go up there and hunt. One day they brought back a tiger draped across the back of a jeep."

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Yikes! Imagine one of those roaming in your neighborhood . . . Makes me wonder how many other "liberated" zoo animal stories are out there?