"Welcomed as liberators by whom? The reds who got to hang as many priests, monarchists, whoever else was annoying them in their show trials which amounted to be mere lynchings? Well it was the Germans who actually liberated the French from those thugs. Where do you believe the French and German dislike of Americans which I admit is much of the time over the top comes from?"
Theophan,
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Do you really imagine that the French people were "liberated" by the Nazi's, and that the French people did not welcome the Americans as liberators in 1945? Albert Camus, Sartre, De Gaulle??? If so, I frankly don't see why anyone on this board could, henceforth, accept anything that you say as credible. The modern day Germans dislike the Americans, in part, because of the idiocy of George W. Bush and his minions, and perhaps because we defeated their military machine after the Nazi's had conquered the European continent. I say this, incidentally, as one who is, ethnically, a German-American. (My grandfather only spoke German until age 10.) Nonetheless, many Western Germans from the WWII generation--like Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl--believed that the Americans, French, and British military had dealt with them decently in the post War period, and with clemency, through the Marshall Plan. (The Western Allies had, fortunately, learned some things from the mistakes made at Versailles following World War I.)
Do you not know that Hitler's openly published intention was to subject Europe and the world to the service of the "master race?" Nothing less, my deluded "Orthodox" friend! In the process of implementing Hitler's Satanic vision, the Nazis murdered millions of Europeans; Jews--including many French and German citizens--Gypsies, Slavs, Greeks, and many Orthodox Christians. St. Nicholai Velimirovich, the Archbishop of Zica was, himself, incarceratd by the Nazis at Dachau during the war, and Hitler had a particular antipathy toward the Orthodox Serbs, insisting on bombing Belgrade heavily. (He also ordered the retreating Nazi's to burn Paris, by the way--an order that was, fortunately, disobeyed.)
As for "Eisenhower's holocaust," I must say that the whole thing sounds like some sort of nutty, right-wing, neo-fascist fiction. I have personally known many Americans who fought in France and Germany during World War II--including my own father, two uncles, and two Orthodox Christian gentlemen from the ROCOR (who rank among the best men I have ever known, anywhere.) I have never heard or read of American GI's raping women or pillaging French, Italian, or German communities. My uncles and father always talked about how much they liked the Italian and French people and how these people shared wonderful meals and conversation with them. Where in France did your relatives live, who give such a remarkably different account of the conduct of our American GI's during World War II? And, by the way, did anyone in your family put their life on the line by storming the Nazi machine gun bunkers along the beaches at Normandy, or in southern France, to liberate the French people and the rest of Europe from the Nazi police state?
At the very least, you should have the decency to avoid slandering men who sacrificed their lives for your family. At best, you might offer an apology for being so ungrateful to your American friends and benefactors from the World War II era.
= True Orthodox smile.