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"Contrary to lay opinion, the practices of the SS in the Eastern Front were not consonant with effective counterinsurgency strategy" is one of those assertions that is obviously worthwhile and necessary in the context of positive knowledge production but nevertheless quite funny to see written down.
![According to most historical studies, far from helping win the anti- partisan campaign, brutality and violence against local populations was a key reason for the German defeat. Although local commanders had a sound understanding of the operational techniques of counterinsur- gency, their efforts were constantly undermined at the level of policy and strategy by the exploitative, rapacious, and genocidal nature of the Nazi state. Not only did the extermination policies pursued by SS bat- talions and special troops continuously undermine the efforts of local commanders to cultivate relationships with the population but also, as Shepherd shows, “the effectiveness of all these efforts was blunted by the fact that they never posed a fundamental challenge to ruthless eco- nomic interests [which led the Germans to despoil the East, leaving the population starving and destroying the economy] or to racist preconcep- tions of the population [which contributed to mass murder of noncom- batants]...the ruthless, ideological, and exploitative dynamic of Nazi occupation policy in the east, then, proved an implacable obstacle” to effective counterinsurgency.7 In Walter Laqueur’s words, “the partisan leaders . . . would have found it much more difficult to attract recruits had the Germans treated the population decently, but this would have been quite incompatible...with the character of the Nazi leaders, their doc- trine, and their aims.”8](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xusvyqwadkmbbd67hz7eyeqj/bafkreigm4kqizmq77oe7uxc7hasry2isexmenz3o3trbrgmie2d3hdwzfa@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"Contrary to lay opinion, the practices of the SS in the Eastern Front were not consonant with effective counterinsurgency strategy" is one of those assertions that is obviously worthwhile and necessary in the context of positive knowledge production but nevertheless quite funny to see written down.
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And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.