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InkIcan t1_izslc1c wrote

Some pictures from the bombing in case you're wondering if this is something worth pursuing justice over.

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BasroilII t1_izukvgj wrote

Anyone who even remotely things it wouldn't be is too young to remember that, probably. I was in middle school when it happened, and it was all anyone talked about for a long time.

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InkIcan t1_izuofa3 wrote

>Anyone who even remotely things it wouldn't be is too young to remember that

"Nobody will ever say the Holocaust didn't happen."

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michilio t1_izux4ei wrote

Eisenhower´s first reaction upon realising the true brutality of the camps, the day he visits, before the war even ended: invites journalists and tells them to document because he can imagine people claiming it didn´t happen.

https://remember.org/facts-aft-lib-eis.html

>[...]as soon as I returned to Patton’s headquarters that evening I sent communications to both Washington and London, urging the two governments to send instantly to Germany a random group of newspaper editors and representative groups from the national legislatures. I felt that the evidence should be immediately placed before the American and British publics in a fashion that would leave no room for cynical doubt.”

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Kahzootoh t1_izvo3i1 wrote

To be fair, denial was the order of the day for basically everyone. There is no shortage of historical precedent when it comes to a nation trying to whitewash the uglier pages of its history. It’s kind of amazing that anyone ever thought there would be no attempt to deny or downplay the Holocaust.

Eisenhower was always a superb organizer, and stood out from his contemporaries for having a better sense of his own place in the overall system and the vast responsibility that came with it. Other generals often neglected certain areas of their responsibility, particularly the political aspects (which is understandable, as many had little experience outside traditional military matters). Inviting the press and making the thorough documentation of the Holocaust a key policy set him apart from many contemporaries who essentially waived it off as the usual wartime atrocities one sees in war that quickly gets forgotten about by most people.

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Gekkers t1_izut0h4 wrote

My father worked in the RAF as a photographer and was one of the gentlemen sent to take these pictures. That's all I know because he refuses to talk about how horrific it was.

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InkIcan t1_izuv8ub wrote

I'm so sorry - please extend my sympathy and empathy.

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Gekkers t1_izuxwbt wrote

That's kind of you to say. It's not a subject I discussed with my Dad, I know the memory of being there, cataloguing and the clean up was traumatic. Mum did her best to explain at the time. Cannot fathom to imagine the victims family's suffering. It breaks my heart.

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auntieup t1_izztwkk wrote

Your father was important in helping us identify and send home the belongings of those we lost. I can’t imagine what those images did to him, but they had critical forensic value.

By the time I reached the Incident Centre, most of my friend’s things were accounted for and repacked. (The amazing women of Lockerbie had laundered and folded clothes that fell out of passenger luggage after the explosion.) I never had to see your father’s work, but it helped the lovely local people identify some of my friend’s things as hers.

Please thank him for me. ❤️

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Mattyi t1_izv0p33 wrote

Colleague of mine was giving a talk about PTSD that she asked me to proofread, and the deck included shots from the aftermath of this attack that I haven’t seen anywhere.

The shots in this link don’t even begin to scratch the surface. I’m a child of the internet and that shit affected me for weeks just looking at the PowerPoint.

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xdlols t1_izv0srv wrote

What was so haunting about the photos?

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Para_Regal t1_izz1tk9 wrote

I believe the photos show bodies (or rather, parts of bodies) that were flung all over Lockerbie after the explosion. I’ve read descriptions of some of the unpublished photos that describe just absolute carnage in that little town. There are graphic photos out there on the internet if you want to try to dig for them, but I believe some of the worst photos were tightly controlled so as not to have them leaked to the public.

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SpartanNation053 t1_izuydun wrote

If this isn’t a case where the government would seek death, what is?

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TheFan88 t1_izvshsf wrote

That is a powerful article. Thanks for posting. College students losing their lives is so painful. So much future ahead of them taken for literally no good reason. None. Just evil people.

To the evil people sitting around thinking up horrific acts like this - try to do something positive with your life. Positive change. Terrorism does nothing but make you evil.

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