There was only one Alfred de Grazia, and he was the one under attack by the Holocaust denier and apologist...
There was only one Alfred de Grazia, and he was the one under attack by the Holocaust denier and apologist, so I wrote this to him:
Re: https://furtherglory.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/in-world-war-ii-were-there-2-americans-named-alfred-degrazia/#comment-46215
The Alfred de Grazia that was purported to have done all the things attributed to him by you is the same as my father; however, I cannot say why he said any or all of these things, or what the Army actually used him for, or if and why he posted the picture as him when it wasn’t and isn’t. I replaced in the place I found it the actual picture of him posing in front of the stacked bodies at what I am sure was Buchenwald, and Anne-Marie von Hueber – de Grazia said that he had also been to Auschwitz. I did not know this until she made the statement on Facebook in connection with the photo. My father tended to self-aggrandizement and liked Jews who he thought were very smart. He also tended to be a Sophist, or sophistical. He could have written a lot with intent, or purposively. But still, why are you choosing this man, who did so much for humanity, as any sort of model for any sort of behavior that you might find unfavorable to your interests? The Nazis made their own bed and dragged the German people into it. The bombing of cities had already begun in WWI with German Zeppelins hitting London. The British chose to be the first to bomb German cities in WWII, but it would have started with German bombers in due time. I wandered the battlefields of Europe for years, just feeling the pain and division; even in my own mind and family, and grew up with young men and women who had lost their parents in the War, years before. Find someone else to pillory. Al de Grazia should be left in peace; he did his duty and it was rough from the start. He accomplished miracles considering all. Wikipedia is not good for you or your cause; it is filled with crap that anyone with a brain can see is made up to suit the authors’ purposes. I believe the term is “whole cloth;” right from the weaving mill and ready to be cut to suit the maker’s needs. If you are looking for allies in your future campaigns, you are going about it in entirely the wrong way. I’m going to look to England for friends, and never forget this, as would anyone else in the same circumstances.