Video: Washington shot WWI veterans in 1932
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Recently, unique footage appeared, which confirmed that in the United States in 1932 in Washington, the police and the army defeated and shot with tanks the tent camp of World War I veterans.
A rare video about those events.
Washington Tiananmen in its purest form …
In 1932, a "Hunger March" was organized for unemployed (unarmed) World War I veterans with their families to the capital. Regular troops and tanks were sent against them.
The dispersal of the veterans was led by General D. MacArthur, Colonel D. Eisenhower and Major D. Paton. All three are the most famous personalities in history. They became famous military leaders during the American involvement in the final stages of World War II in Europe. And Dwight D. Eisenhower was twice elected President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
I will add that the executioner of American unemployed veterans, General D. MacArthur, fully deserved the gallows for the war crimes and genocide during its occupation by the North Korean army during the 1950-1953 intervention.
Total silence about those tragic events was observed for almost 80 years!
They rehearsed their martial arts on fellow citizens in the center of their own capital. In the summer of 1932, former WWI soldiers gathered in Washington, DC, demanding, at the height of the Great Depression, an increase in unemployment benefits and cash compensation for veterans that the government did not want to pay.
Many families then lived on $ 1 a day. There were many demonstrators - about 30 thousand people. Many came to the capital with their families and children. They didn’t want to leave until President Hoover met their demands. A campground has been set up on the outskirts of the capital Anacostia Flats.
The veterans waited in the capital for about two months, organizing demonstrations from time to time. The government could not find a pretext to disperse the veterans who built their own village out of rubbish on the outskirts of Washington, Anacostia Flats. In response, President Herbert Hoover declared all demonstrators "communists" and ordered General Douglas McCarthur to disperse them. The soldiers stormed the wretched settlement built by the veterans and burned it down.
Some sources describe these events as follows (for example, in Consulting Services in the United States during Roosevelt's Time):
“July 28 came the long-awaited day for Hoover: police cold-bloodedly shot two veterans and wounded several more. Immediately, the government decided to bring in federal troops. The chief of staff of the American army, General D. MacArthur, called his adjutant Major D. Eisenhower, mounted a war horse and personally led the troops. Tanks, cavalry, soldiers in steel helmets with bayonets attached drove the veterans out of the capital.
When night fell, the troops prepared for a decisive assault on the enemy's stronghold - the huts and tents at Anacostia Flats. By the light of searchlights, the troops rushed to the "enemy". They acted decisively, bombarding the shanty-dwellers with tear gas bombs, bayonets and rifle butts against those who were slow to retreat. A seven-year-old boy, who was looking for a toy in the confusion, received a bayonet wound, two babies died from the gas. The victory was complete - the veterans were expelled, the village was burnt"
General MacArthur celebrated the victory at Anacostia-Flags; in hindsight, he argued that the "crowd" was inspired by "revolutionary ideas." The government issued a statement that the fight is against "criminals and communists." A grand jury (court) was appointed to prove the charge.
It failed - only former soldiers came to Washington, every fifth of them was wounded in the war. The story of the veteran D. Upgelo, who recognized D. Patton as the officer leading the cavalry in the attack, was heard throughout America. In 1918, at the front, Angelo saved his life and received a medal for it. "Surely this man saved my life," Patton confirmed."
Here's a story …
US veterans' organizations still insist that several thousand people died then, and 200 activists were taken to the Florida swamps and shot there.
Hoover's rival in the upcoming presidential election, Franklin Roosevelt, said at the time: "THIS will make me president." And so it happened.
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