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6/27/2025, 9:46:49 PM
>"Counterinsurgency is hard. This was maybe my answer to von Brauchitsch, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Von Brauchitsch has a very modern philosophy: that if the occupying force acts with restraint, the people would submit. We look at France and it’s not that simple. Von Brauchitsch can say that Otto von Stülpnagel became Military Commander in France for a few years, and he was stern yet fair. But von Brauchitsch doesn’t ask the question: What was von Stülpnagel’s partisan policy? Did he cooperate with the SS? What did he do in times of unrest and upheaval? And what about all those partisans? By the end of Case Red, France was gone but all of the partisans weren’t gone – they’re in the maquis. Did von Stülpnagel pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby partisans, in their little partisan cradles?"
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