[Peace-discuss] Stalingrad 75

[Boyle, Francis A]

In August of 1989 the Good Citizens of Volgograd/Stalingrad selected me to publicly honor and pay tribute to the Defenders and Victims of the Battle for Stalingrad against the invading and annihilating German Army that included Nazi Waffen SS Stormtroopers. By comparison, in 1985 Reagan paid Tribute to Nazi Waffen SS Stormtroopers at their  Bitburg Cemetery against the wishes of every Jewish Organization and Veterans Organization in the country while announcing his  so-called Reagan Doctrine whose author was Jeanne Kirkpatrick. Prior thereto I had condemned Reagan's forthcoming Nazi Act in plenary debate with Kirkpatrick's Lawyer and Co-author on the Reagan Doctrine before the Annual Convention of the American Society of International Law at their request. At the time, Killer Koh worked for Reagan. Fab.
The Reagan/Bitburg Doctrine
...Here Kirkpatrick and Gerson quite correctly (though perhaps unwittingly) pointed out that on May 5, 1985 Reagan took the opportunity to publicly announce his so-called doctrine at Bitburg, West Germany (p. 22). There Reagan laid a memorial wreath at a cemetery that he knew contained the remains of dead Nazi Waffen SS Stormtroopers despite the vigorous protestations of the justifiably outraged American Jewish community and U.S. veterans organizations, among others. As I argued in a general debate with none other than Gerson himself, inter alia, before the annual convention of the American Society of International Law held shortly beforehand in New York City on April 26:

"It is the Reagan administration's Machiavellian approach to foreign affairs that sponsored the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. It is the Reagan administration that brought you the United States invasion of Grenada. It was the Reagan administration that brought you the U.S. invasion of Nicaragua, which still goes on today. It is the Reagan administration's policy of constructive engagement that has encouraged the South African invasion of Angola. It is the Reagan administration which has launched an all-out vicious assault on the integrity of the International Court of Justice. And it is now the Reagan administration that is going to be paying tribute to 39 SS soldiers at a cemetery in West Germany. I think nothing could be a more eloquent and symbolic statement of what motivates the foreign policy of this administration than that act."






Stanlingrad

We got off the boat at the dock
Walking into town I was asked
Could I lay some flowers
At the War Memorial
On the Banks of the Volga?
Of course I said yes
Honored and pleased
My Dad had fought the Japanese
At Saipan and Tinian and Okinawa
Nazis were not his war
But we were all Allies together
In the Noble Cause to Defeat Fascism
As I neared the Statue
On the Banks of the Volga
Young Komsomol Girl appeared
All dressed in white
Carrying a wreath of red roses
She gave to me
A band was playing
Joyful, not somber, but subdued
Town Elders assembled
Sun was shining
Most beautiful day
On the Banks of the Volga
I lay my wreath of roses
To the Defenders and Victims of Stalingrad
Bowed my head in silent reflection
If the Soviets had not held at Stalingrad
All Europe today would be speaking German
And saluting: Heil Hitler!
Deutschland, Deutschland
But not Uber Alles
My Dad was smiling
On the Banks of the Volga
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Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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