operations at scale on a large bureaucracy does it, creates a blowback effect. So let me give you another example. So there's this mid-1960s operation, 1964, that I describe in the book with a lot of archival evidence. I have all the Czech case files. It's called Operation Neptune. And the Operation Neptune was playing out 19 years after the Holocaust, after the end of World War II. And the goal of the operation was very clear. We know the goal. The goal was let's try to do an operation to force the German parliament, the West German parliament, the Bundestag, into extending the statute of limitations for war crimes so that German war criminals from World War II, from the Holocaust, wouldn't get away with genocide, with war crimes. And the Czech said, okay, let's publish files, Nazi files, to restart the conversation to sort of pour fire into this conversation in, pour oil into the fire of this conversation in West Germany about Nazi war crimes and put pressure on the parliament (25/43)
You are viewing a single comment's thread from: