Thread: WW2 "Resistance" Vs "Terrorists"?
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Old November 3rd, 2003, 10:08 AM
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Ah, what an ugly can of worms: I would ask the question if "Today's terrorists are the same as freedom fighters in WW2?" like "Are terrorists freedom fighters, or vice versa, or both?"

Let's take the French WW II "resistance", as a very good example, though you can't compare it to todays Iraq (France declared war on Germany, France surrendered, Germany wasn't a democracy).

The German reprisal shootings of French hostages after the start of the attacks on German forces in France beginning summer 1941 worked to a certain degree, but started an avalance of dislike, revenge terror and anti-terror.

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