Remembering Britain's Conscientious Objectors
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- A hundred years ago, the world was on the brink of the First World War.
But while many rushed to join up and go to the front for a war they thought would be "over by Christmas", not everyone went to fight willingly.
Those who refused on principle were called conscientious objectors
Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee met some of their descendents in Northern England.
It's very easy to feel noble about being a conscientious objector and letting everyone else fight on your behalf safely tucked away from the conflict while others put themselves in harms way. My father was called up in 1939, was part of the Normandy landings fighting through France into Belgium, Holland over the Rhine into Germany where he witnessed the horrors of Belsen Concentration Camp. He met my mother in 1945 who was by then in a DP Camp ( Displaced Persons ) a Polish schoolgirl picked up at 14 and sent in a cattle truck to be slave labour for 5 years meanwhile both her parents were murdered by the Nazis. Even then he had to continue serving in the BAOR ( British Army of Occupation of The Rhine ) until finally being demobbed and coming home in October 1946. He stated that there were brave objectors who rather than take life enlisted in the Army Medical Corp to save lives and risk their own. As a footnote if everyone had had the same scruples as these "stay at home" objectors we would all be speaking German and the world would be an even sorrier place than it is today !
I think, this should be: -supported; WORLD-WIDE:
ALL over; the [very]_World.
No to: ANY Nation; having: "Forced_Conscription(s)!"?
Someone in our family got themselves dishonerably discharged so they didn't fight. Another group that may have many people who were actually consciously objecting after forced enlistment.
There are always "conscientious objectors" in any war and they are always a very tiny minority. Being as this was a town in the wool trade I wonder how many of them kept making the material needed to clothe the men who went to fight for their country? I also wonder how many were happy to be paid for that job and I wonder how many refused to work in those industries and preferred to live off their non war efforts. Did they also use the materials brought at great cost and danger to sailors such as food from countries across the seas despite the U-boats sinking and killing those said sailors. If you refuse to fight or even support your country then do not expect to receive sustenance or protection from those that do,
What makes you think their trade boomed. The town looks like ghost town, they were probably boycotted and harrassed.
Altairific
Check your facts these places have lost their industry due to the rise of the asian industries and that was long after the great war ended In fact over 60 years later
good luck explaining to God why you were willing to take part in a mass murder just because other people told you to do it.
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It wasn't only a war of capitalism. Look at the ravages of Communism before and ever since. The west sided with communism to beat Hitler. Communism has killed 50-100,000,000 people.