The Moneychanger
On 27 February 1933 the Reichstag, Germany's parliament building in Berlin, was set afire. The Nazis blamed the Communists for the fire, & used it to justify seizing more power & suppressing more rights. Wow. I'm glad stuff like that doesn't happen in America. What? What Patriot Act?
On 27 February 1864 the Confederate government opened another prisoner of war camp, Camp Sumter, near Andersonville, Georgia. Post-war Red Republican propaganda made out the suffering of US war prisoners at Andersonville to be intentional, ignoring that by law they were provided with the same rations as Confederate soldiers in the field, that the Lincoln government refused all offers of prisoner exchange, refused to allow medications for prisoners through its blockades, and even used Confederate prisoners as human shields in battle. Andersonville's commander, a Swiss named Henry Wirtz, was made the scapegoat for the US government's refusal to aid its POWs & legally lynched shortly after the war. Meanwhile, nothing is said about the thousands of Southern prisoners who were intentionally starved and frozen to death by the Lincoln government.
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