Even fighting actual Nazis in occupied Europe (which Peter Kemp describes in the autobiographical “No Colours or Crest“) doesn’t rub out the stain for some users, apparently.
Personally I favor open minds and paths to redemption.
Well, fighting Nazis alone, does not make you a saint. Stalin fought the Nazis, too.
From the skimming of wikipedia, he really does not sound like a nice guy to me. But still, thanks for the suggestion, I like reading other sides of view.
Quite so!
I encourage you to check out the book and reserve your opinion on its author:
>Kemp, neither loyal to the House of Bourbon nor Roman Catholic, also hadn’t been personally affected by the “Red Terror” political violence that had incited the conservative uprising. Still, he had been appalled at the bloodshed preceding the July 1936 outbreak of the civil war, explaining to a friend he couldn’t stand by while leftist mobs murdered people “simply because they were priests or nuns” or “because they had a little money or property.” [0]
We know now that while Republicans did massacre and rape civilians, the Nationalists did so too and on a much larger scale. But to someone on the ground in the middle of that chaos, with bullets and propaganda flying everywhere, I imagine the full picture would have been next to impossible to discern. We can only truly see what’s right in front of us.
[0] https://www.historynet.com/peter-kemp-set-europe-ablaze.htm
And there's also that other country that exploded nuclear bombs over two mass populated cities killing a good number of innocent people.
There's not a lot of people that can save face in a world war. At least there is a consensus that the Germans were the most atrocious.