Radical Anthropology on Nostr: 80 years ago, June 8 1944, Chris Knight, founder of Radical Anthropology, was 18 ...

80 years ago, June 8 1944, Chris Knight, founder of Radical Anthropology, was 18 months old. His dad Denis landed on Gold Beach with the 44th Royal Tank Regiment, age 23 and already a veteran of N Africa and Sicily. As a tank 'trooper' he took part in the advance across the Rhine.

Traumatised by his experiences, Denis became an ardent pacifist through the 1950s, values he transmitted to his son (who spent much of the early 70s trying to organise trade unions with BAOR soldiers!).

We abhor any form of war glorification and above all political manipulation of the courage of ordinary people who resisted Nazism. Denis and his tank comrades would have been utterly disgusted by the cynical distortions of Biden on this occasion, knowing all too well that they depended on the Red Army to destroy the nazis.

For Denis the only valuable lessons to learn were #NEVERAGAIN
#NoWar
#NoBorders
#NoNazis

Denis Knight was a poet, and this link recalls his war poetry, and shows his tank crew at Bremen in 1945.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/52/a8138252.shtml